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Powered flight of heavier-than-air machine [23] Sydney: Wright Model A: Colin Defries: 1910: 1910-07-16: Flight of Australian-built plane [24] Mia Mia, Victoria: Duigan pusher biplane: John Duigan: 1911: 1911-12-05: First airman to qualify as pilot in Australia (Licence No. 1) [25] Sydney: Bristol Boxkite: William Ewart Hart: 1912: 1912-08-06 ...
In 1948, the first commercial flight from Australia to Africa was flown by Qantas, launching what is known as the Wallaby Route. [2] [3] In 1954, the first flight from Australia to North America was completed, as a 60-passenger Qantas aircraft connected Sydney with San Francisco and Vancouver, having fuel stops at Fiji, Canton Island and Hawaii ...
First transpacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross (31 May – 9 Jun 1928); [174] [nb 31] first non-stop Australian transcontinental flight (Aug 1928); [175] first trans-Tasman flight (10/11 Sep 1928); [175] († disappeared) Lady Southern Cross, over the Bay of Bengal. [176] Sir Thomas Sopwith: 18 Jan 1888 27 ...
First transpacific flight (US to Australia): Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia via Hawaii and Fiji, between May 31 and June 9, 1928. [175] First rocket-powered aircraft to fly: was the Lippisch Ente flown by Fritz Stamer on June 11, 1928, using solid fuel rockets. [176]
This is a list of the busiest airports in Australia by passenger traffic, passenger movements and aircraft movements. At a glance Graphs are unavailable due to ...
The first overland flight across the Australian continent from Melbourne to Darwin passed through the airport in 1919. This flight was undertaken by Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur Murphy, flying a B.E.2. In 1920, the first single engine aircraft to complete the flight from England to Australia arrived. The aircraft was an Airco DH.9 ...
Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The following is the alphabetic list of all ACCs and their FIRs as of October 2011:
The delivery flight of the first 747-400 was a world record for commercial aircraft, flying the 18,001 km (11,185 mi) from London to Sydney non-stop. The Australian Government sold the domestic carrier Australian Airlines to Qantas in August 1992. This provided Qantas access to the Australian domestic market for the first time in its history.