Aviation Historical Facts
A systematic study, documentation and succinct presentation of the aviation past.
- Aviation Accident Caused By Dangerous Goods
- Aircraft Strike or Damage By Lightning
- World’s First Radio-equipped ATC
- World’s First Female Flight Attendant (Stewardess)
- Standards and Recommended Practices (SARP)
- First Fully Operational Boarding Bridge (Avio bridge)
- First Coordinated Air Traffic Control
- Worst Aviation Disaster
- First Treaty On The Rights And Liabilities Of Passengers And Carriers
- First Recorded Bird Strike
- First Airport Lounge
- First ‘Black Box’ Flight Recorder
- First Pilot To Exceed The Speed Of Sound In Level Flight
- World’s First Commercial Jet Airliner
- Akwa Ibom International Airport (AKIA) – Uyo, Nigeria
- Pilot Of First Aircraft That Landed In Nigeria (Kano)
- First Air Carrier To Allow Cell Phones On Its Planes
- Imperial Airways Regular Passenger Service to Cape Town
- Aviateca Convair 240 Guatemala Crash
- Earliest Aviation Activities In Nigeria
- First Hull Loss Of A Boeing 737-300
- Founding Of Nigeria Airways
- First Plane Crash in Nigeria/Africa
- The Deadliest Aviation Accident Involving Airbus A330
- First Mid-air Collision Involving Airliners
- First Successful Aerial Refueling
- Air China Jetliner Hijack
- Continental Airlines Flight 1883 Landing On A Taxiway
- Australian Pilot Frederick Valentich’s Disappearance
- First Use Of The ‘Hub And Spoke’ System
- Oldest Air Carrier Still Operating Under Its Original Name
- First Certified Turbojet-powered Civil Airliner
- First Aircraft To Land In Actual Category IIIA Conditions
- First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot In Nigeria
- First Airline With Complete In-flight Business Class Package
- Origin of Embraer
- Deadliest Aviation Disaster in Nigeria
- The Oldest Airport and First International Airport In Nigeria
- First Use Of Social Networks in Flight Customer Service
- First Crash At Victor Attah Int’l Airport (VAIA) – Uyo, Nigeria
- First ICAO Convention To Address Unruly Passengers
- Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
- World’s First Scheduled Turbine-powered Commercial Flight
- Non-Directional Beacon (NDB)
- First Electronic Reservations System
- First Reported Case of Aircraft Hijacking
- First Known Gyroscope-guided Autopilot Steering System
- Use of Teletype Machine in Aviation Weather Transmission
- Worst American Commercial Air Disaster (at the time)
- British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flight Crash
- Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT)
- First On-board Vacuum Toilet
- First Plane Crash in Nigeria
- The World’s Longest Flight
- First Use of Radio Onboard a Plane
- David Warren Invented the First Flight Recorder
- First Airport Lounge
- Deadliest Accident in Aviation History
- World’s First Air Traffic Controller
- First Fully Operational Boarding Bridge
- First Adoption of Standards and Recommended Practices
- First Radio-Equipped Air Traffic Control Tower
- First World’s Female Flight Attendant
