In 1914 the world's first scheduled airline service began between Tampa & this city across the bay
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St. PetersburgTampa Airboat Line: World's First Scheduled Airline ...  On December 4, he went across Tampa Bay to St. Petersburg, then a city of only ... maintained two scheduled flights daily between St. Petersburg and Tampa, six days a week for three months. Regular service was to begin on January 1, 1914.
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World's First Commercial Airline | The Greatest Moments in Flight  Jul 19, 2012 ... The first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, Fla. ... 1, 1914, the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line became the world's ... Their 21-mile (34-kilometer) flight across the bay to Tampa took 23 minutes. ... In 1913, a trip between the two cities, sitting on opposite sides of Tampa Bay,...
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Historic Marker: World's First Regularly Scheduled Commercial ...  Aug 30, 2016 ... The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line offered the world's first regularly scheduled commercial airline began service at this location on January 1, 1914, ... and offered transportation for one passenger between the two cities. ... On Jan 1, 1914 pilot Tony Jannus flew former Mayor A. C. Pheil across the bay...
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The World's First Scheduled Airline | America by Air  The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line began flying across Tampa Bay on January 1, 1914. It lasted only three months. The flight covered 29 kilometers (18...
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St. PetersburgTampa Airboat Line - Wikipedia  The St. PetersburgTampa Airboat Line (SPT Airboat Line) was the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft. The airline provided service between St. Petersburg and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay. ... The airline continued to make flights until May 5, 1914, five weeks after contract ... The World's First Airline.
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Aviation: The Pioneer Period - Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage  As the most easterly place in North America, it became a popular taking-off ... Amelia Earhart made two record-setting flights from Newfoundland, in 1928 and 1932. ... non-stop transatlantic flight between Great Britain and any point in Canada, .... in a red Lockheed Vega and landed at Northern Ireland almost 15 hours later.
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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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Corporate Profile - Air Canada  Adding these latest services to those launched in 2015 between Toronto and Dubai, Delhi and ... Air Canada is renewing its international fleet with state-of-the-art and fuel efficient ... Air Lines (TCA) inaugurated its first flight on September 1, 1937. ... L-10A carried two passengers and mail between Vancouver and Seattle.
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Airliner - Wikipedia  An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most ... On February 25, 1914, it took off for its first demonstration flight with 16 .... Soon after the war though Douglas made a large advancement with the .... Aircraft in this category are the Boeing 747, Boeing 767, Boeing 777, Boeing...
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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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A Chronicle of the Boston Transit System - MIT  Beginning with a family-operated ferry service, Boston has nurtured many forms of mass ... Mass transportation first emerged in the city in 1631, when Boston was a ... a charter to anyone who would run a ferry between Boston and Charlestown. ..... November 29, 1912 Transit Commission began construction of East Boston...
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British Airways - Wikipedia  British Airways, often shortened to BA, is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United ... Services to the US began on 24 May 1976 with a flight to Washington Dulles ... The formation of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984 created a .... BA CityFlyer, a wholly owned subsidiary, offers flights from its base at...
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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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List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia  This is a list of firsts in aviation. Contents. [hide]. 1 The forerunners. 1.1 First alleged human .... First trans-Atlantic flight; The lighter-than-air U.S. Navy airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) made a nonstop delivery flight crossing from the ... First ditching of an airplane in the sea: Hubert Latham, while attempting to complete the first...
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First airplane flies - Dec 17, 1903 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, First airplane flies on Dec 17, 1903. ... In Dayton, they designed a 12-horsepower internal combustion engine with ... tests, and on December 14 Orville made the first attempt at powered flight. ... In 1908, they traveled to France and made their first public flights, arousing widespread public excitement.
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CFP: The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu  1914-1918 ...  Jan 13, 2016 ... The International Conference The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1911-1924). How, because of two wild beasts the world was set...
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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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TRANS CANADAAIR LINES, LTD. (TCA): Canada (1937-1964)  Sep 9, 2015 ... Vancouver to Winnipeg L-10A cargo service begins on February 1, 1938, with a ... At the same time, daily Halifax to Sydney flights are inaugurated. ... Port Arthur to Duluth on September 16, and Victoria to Seattle on November 1. ... A DC-4M-1 with 6 crew and 11 passengers is lost when its fuel tanks take...
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Media about Zhukovsky  Sep 12, 2016 ... Moscow Zhukovsky Airport welcomed its first scheduled service on 12 September, ... The inaugural flight from Minsk was operated by Belavia. ... Its first terminal can accommodate up to 12 million passengers per year.
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The First Nonstop Transcontinental Flight | Pioneers of Flight  U.S. Army Air Service pilots Lt. John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. ... G. Kelly made the first nonstop transcontinental flight on May 23, 1923, in the T-2 ... They took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, and landed at Rockwell Field, San Diego, ... During the flight, Macready and Kelly faced flying over unknown territory at...
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A Boy and His Airline - Texas Monthly  Since June 18, 1971, when Southwest made its first flight from Dallas to San Antonio with ten paying customers, Texas has never been the same. By making...