You are at netAirspace : On This Day : July 28

<
>
On This Day: July 28

Aviation events for July 28

1933: Dr. Albert Forsythe and Charles Alfred “Chief” Anderson land at Atlantic City to complete the first return flight to the West Coast by African-American pilots.
 
1934: Nelly Diener becomes Europe’s first air stewardess.
 
1945: a U.S. Army B-25D bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in heavy fog, killing 11 people in the building and all three of the plane’s crewmen.
 
1950: The first scheduled passenger service flown by a gas-turbine powered airliner (turboprop) is British European Airway’s (BEA) Vickers V. 630 Viscount.
 
2003: First flight of the Adam A700 AdamJet.
 
2009: Air Cargo Germany makes its first revenue flight.
 
2010: Airblue Flight 202, operated with an Airbus A321, crashes in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad.
 
2010: Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 00-0173 of the United States Air Force crashed near Elmendorf Air Force Base killing all four people on board.
 
 
 

Explore by day

Jump to
 
 

Explore by year

Jump to year
 
 

LEFT

RIGHT
CONTENT