The world's first scheduled airline, it opened its first office in The Hague in 1919
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KLM - Wikipedia  KLM, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (Royal Dutch Airlines), is the flag carrier ... KLM was founded in 1919; it is the oldest airline in the world still operating .... Revenue Passenger-Kilometers, scheduled flights only, in millions ... In March 1960, the airline introduced the first Douglas DC-8 jet into its fleet.
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History - KLM Corporate - KLM.com  Sep 12, 1919 ... Dutch Royal Airlines for the Netherlands and its Colonies (Koninklijke ... The first KLM office opened on Heerengracht in The Hague. ... KLM opened its first passenger office on Leidseplein in Amsterdam. ... Until the outbreak of the Second World War, this was the world's longest-distance scheduled service.
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The World's First Scheduled Airline | America by Air  The World's First Scheduled Airline  The Post Office Begins Flying the Mail  The Curtiss JN-4D ... The airline closed at the end of March. ... For its St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, St. Petersburg purchased a Model XIV from St. Louis ... The airplane could carry one passenger, who sat next to the pilot in the open cockpit.
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KLM | Dutch airline | Britannica.com  Dutch airline founded on Oct. 7, 1919, and flying its first scheduled service, ... had opened the world's first airline reservations and ticket office, in Amsterdam.
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Airline - Wikipedia  An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. ... In its first year, the D.L.R. operated regularly scheduled flights on routes with a ... France began an air mail service to Morocco in 1919 that was bought out in ..... In the 1990s, "open skies" agreements became more common.
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Human flight, history (1919-1938) - encyclopedia article - Citizendium  Sep 28, 2013 ... Crossing the Atlantic Ocean by airplane was a first major 'race' of world ... The 1920s would show no slowdown of aerial activity in international skies. ... On 20-21 May 1927, the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight was flown...
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The World's 10 Oldest Airlines - KLM Blog  Nov 3, 2014 ... KLM is the oldest airline still flying under its original name. ... In 1920, pilot Jerry Shaw captained the first KLM flight, flying from London to Schiphol in a De Havilland DH-16. ... Lufthansa was established in 1926, following a merger between Deutsche Aero Lloyd (DAL) and .... Lufthansa started with a F-11?
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Douglas DC-2 - Wikipedia  The Douglas DC-2 is a 14-seat, twin-engined airliner that was produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Corporation starting in 1934. ... Although Fokker had purchased a production licence from Douglas for ... token of this, KLM entered its first DC-2 PH-AJU Uiver (Stork) in the October 1934 .... Dutch East Indies.
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The world's longest running airlines - Airport Technology  Sep 30, 2015 ... KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was originally founded as Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Kolonin (KLM) in October 1919. The company flew its first aircraft, which was a rented De Havilland DH-16, from London to Schiphol in May 1920.
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The Hague | Netherlands Embassy and Consulates, China  You are here: Home > ... The Hague: International City of Peace and Justice ... World Without Chemical Weapons; International Conferences: The Hague as a Host City ... Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first and only permanent international criminal court, ... The Netherlands was one of the founding members of the Statute.
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Oldest Airlines in the World - Aviation History Month :: Routesonline  Nov 4, 2014 ... Beginning with one of the first ever airlines (KLM), we took a look at the ... KLM is the oldest running airline still operating under its original name. The airline was founded on October 7, 1919 as 'Dutch Royal ... flew from Croydon Airport, London to Amsterdam on May 7, 1920 in a leased De Havilland DH-16.
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History of Aviation - First Flights - Avjobs  Charles Furnas became the first American airplane passenger when he flew with ... The salvation of the U.S. commercial aviation industry following World War I was a ... Airplanes still could not fly at night when the service first began, so the mail ... of United Air Lines (originally a joint venture of the Boeing Airplane Company...
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Lindbergh lands in Paris - May 21, 1927 - HISTORY.com  American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever ... up a purse of $25,000 to the first aviator or aviators to fly nonstop from Paris to New York or .... the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to...
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Brussels Airlines | Belgian airline | Britannica.com  ... 1923, as Belgium's national carrier and flew its first flight the following year. ... In 1925 air service began within Belgium's major colony, the Belgian Congo (now the ... which was also granted operational control; the Belgian government owned ... by the state, an international airline, SABENA, operated from 1923 to 2001.
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KLM - Wikipedia  KLM, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (Royal Dutch Airlines), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam ... founded KLMthe abbreviation of Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij ... The first KLM flight took place on 17 May 1920.
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Title : History - Sabena  Regular flights to Amsterdam and Basle via Strasbourg were started by 1923 with ... Lisala and Stanleyville - and expected the new Belgian national airline to fill ... Congo operation and a program of aerodrome building in the Congo began.
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Aviation History: First Nonstop Continental Flight | HistoryNet  On May 3, 1923, First Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready landed at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, where they had ... at Rockwell Field on North Island, Calif., where final preparations for the flight were made. ... that the T-2 and its pilots could stay aloft long enough to make a nonstop transcontinental flight.
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Virgin Atlantic - Wikipedia  In November 1984 the airline started a service between Gatwick Airport and Maastricht Aachen Airport in the Netherlands using a chartered BAC One-Eleven/.
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FAA Historical Chronology, 1926-1996 - Federal Aviation ...  May 23, 1926: Western Air Express (WAE) became one of the first U.S. airlines to offer regular ...... radar to civil aviation at the Indianapolis Experimental Station, using ... (ILS). (See May 2, 1940, Mar 30, 1947, and Apr 3, 1947.) Calendar Year ..... aircraft, a two-engine transport designed for the short-haul passenger market.
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BELAVIA - Belarusian Airlines - History of the airline  ... when the inauguration of the Minsk air terminal took place and when the first three PO-2, ... In 1936 the first regular mail and passenger flight between Minsk and ... Belavia e-ticket sales became available trough its agents in Austria, Italy,...
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Lindbergh lands in Paris - May 21, 1927 - HISTORY.com  American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, ... In May 1919, the first transatlantic flight was made by a U.S. hydroplane that flew from New ... In 1932, he was the subject of international headlines again when his infant son, .... the feat, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic.