| CIA Notable flights and performances: Part 03, 1801-1850 |
| Date | 1802-06-28 | Pilot: | André Jacques Garnerin | 1770-1825 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | High speed flight. Average speed over 100 km/h. |
| | London to Colchester. 110 km/h |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 82 | | km | 51 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 45 | | min | Altitude: | 4500 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972. Garnerin - Le Premier Parachutiste | Updated: | 1998-07-30 |
| Date | 1803-07-18 | Pilot: | Etienne Gaspar Robertson | 1763-1837 | BEL |
| | Copilot: | Auguste Lhoëst | Passengers: |
| | First expressly scientific ascent. |
| | Hamburg to Hannover |
| | Altitude claimed by pilot. French Academy admits maximum 6 500 |
| | Aerostat: | "Entreprenant". hydrogen. | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 7170 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972: 7 170 m. Freiballonsport in Deutschland p8: 7 400 m | Updated: | 2003-03-27 |
| Date | 1803-10-04 | Pilot: | André Jacques Garnerin | 1770-1825 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | M. Aubert | Passengers: |
| | First flight in Russia. first over 300 km. |
| | Moscow to Polova |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 302 | | km | 187.7 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Freiballonsport in Deutschland p8. Garnerin - Le Premier Parachutiste | Updated: | 2003-03-27 |
| Date | 1803 | Pilot: | Jordaki Kuparentko | 1780?-1820 | RUS |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | Demonstration of a hot air balloon in Lithuania |
| | Vilnius |
| | Kuparentko was Moldavian |
| | Aerostat: | Hot Air Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Gunars Dukste | Updated: | 2004-03-29 |
| Date | 1804-04-24 | Pilot: | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778-1850 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Jean Baptiste Biot | Passengers: |
| | First verified flight over 3000 meters. |
| |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 3977 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Freiballonsport in Deutschland p8 | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1804-07-24 | Pilot: | Jordaki Kuparentko | 1780?-1820 | RUS |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First pilot to save his life by parachute. |
| | Balloon caught fire over Warsaw. |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hot Air Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. The Aeronauts. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1804-08-18 | Pilot: | Etienne Gaspar Robertson | 1763-1837 | BEL |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First manned gas balloon flight in Latvia |
| | Riga to Jaunrotkali (Nagelhoff) |
| | Ascent witnessed by André Jacques Garnerin |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen Balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 32 | | km | 20 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Nordisches Archiv 1804. Gunars Dukste | Updated: | 2004-03-29 |
| Date | 1804-09-19 | Pilot: | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778-1850 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First verified flight over 7000 meters. |
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| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 7016 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Histoire de l'Aeronautique. Freiballonsport in Deutschland | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1804-12-06 | Pilot: | André Jacques Garnerin¹ | 1770-1825 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | Unmanned balloons released to celebrate Napoleon's coronation. |
| | One lands in Rome on Nero's grave. |
| | Garnerin replaced as official aeronaut by superstitious Napoleon. Date sometimes given as 16/12 |
| | Aerostat: | Unmanned. Hydrogen. | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 1109 | | km | 689.1 | | Miles | Duration: | 22 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Histoire de l'Aeronautique. Garnerin - Le Premier Parachutiste | Updated: | 1998-07-30 |
| Date | 1806-09-07 | Pilot: | Etienne Gaspar Robertson | 1763-1837 | BEL |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First gas balloon flight in Sweden |
| | Humlegården. Stockholm. Landed same place after 4 minutes |
| | Not sure if he actually flew free |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 4 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Kernell | Updated: | 2002-01-30 |
| Date | 1807-09-23 | Pilot: | André Jacques Garnerin | 1770-1825 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First flight over 200 miles. |
| | Reims to Clausen (Germany) |
| | Garnerin: almost 400 km. Straight line distance about 250 km |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 396 | | km | 246.1 | | Miles | Duration: | 6 h | 55 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Histoire de l'Aeronautique. Freiballonsport in Deutschland. Garnerin - Le Premier Parachutiste | Updated: | 1998-07-30 |
| Date | 1808-06-02 | Pilot: | Johann Peter Colding¹ | 1760?-1825 | DEN |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First domestic air mail service starts in Denmark. |
| | Ends after four unmanned flights |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Colding. Hydrogen balloon. Unmanned | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | The History of Airmail in Scandinavia. Ballooning 1782-1972. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1808-08 | Pilot: | Pascal Andreoli | 1780?-1830 | ITA |
| | Copilot: | Carlo Brioschi | Passengers: |
| | First flight over 7 500 meters. |
| | Rolt: Altitude doubtful but world record for a balloon catching fire |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen/Hot Air balloon | Rozière Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 7600 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1809-02/03 | Pilot: | Johann Peter Colding¹ | 1760?-1825 | DEN |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First international mail balloons. |
| | Denmark to Sweden with pamphlets against the Swedish King |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Colding. Hydrogen balloon. Unmanned | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | The History of Airmail in Scandinavia. Ballooning 1782-1972. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1809 | Pilot: | Etienne Gaspar Robertson | 1763-1837 | BEL |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First manned gas balloon flight in Latvia |
| | Riga to Jaunrotkali (Nagelhoff) |
| | Ascent witnessed by André Jacques Garnerin |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Gunars Dukste | Updated: | 2004-03-29 |
| Date | 1810-06-21 | Pilot: | Marie Madeleine Sophie Armant Blanchard | 1774-1819 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First woman to die in a balloon accident. |
| | Fireworks under basket set balloon on fire |
| | Tethered ascent on Champ de Mars. Wedding of Napoleon and Marie-Louise |
| | Aerostat: | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | FAI 120 | Updated: | 1998-07-31 |
| Date | 1811-10-07 | Pilot: | James Gross Sadler | 1751-1828 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | High speed flight. Average speed 135 km/h. |
| | Average speed 135 km/h. From Birmingham |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 180 | | km | 111.8 | | Miles | Duration: | 1 h | 20 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1815-08-25 | Pilot: | Elisabeth Garnerin | 1800-1845 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First woman parachutist. Elisa Garnerin |
| | Elisa Garnerin. ascends at Champ de Mars. Paris |
| | May have been (only) a balloon flight. not parachute jump |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Who's Who B. FFA | Updated: | 1998-12-16 |
| Date | 1817-07-22 | Pilot: | William Windham Sadler | 1796-1824 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First crossing of the Irish Sea |
| | Portobello Barracks. Dublin 13:30 to Holyhead 19:05 |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Hydrogen balloon | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 5 h | 35 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB | Updated: | 2000-11-17 |
| Date | 1821-07-19 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First use of coal gas. |
| | Royal Coronation balloon |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Green. "George IV". Coal gas. | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 453 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 40 | | min | Altitude: | 3400 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972. Freiballonsport in Deutschland | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1822-04-27 | Pilot: | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First Certificate of Airworthiness |
| | Authorities in Paris require inspections of hot air balloons. |
| | If for no other reason than balloons are driven by fire. and are flammable. |
| | Aerostat: | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Air Law 1 (4th ed. 1977) | Updated: | 2002-03-12 |
| Date | 1822-05-05 | Pilot: | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | Balloons banned to fly over Durham. UK |
| | Aviation law holds that those who set things into the air are liable when those things come down on the heads of others |
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| | Aerostat: | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Air & Space. May-June 1979 | Updated: | 2000-03-15 |
| Date | 1835-02-12 | Pilot: | Eugene Robertson | BEL |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First ascent in Mexico |
| | Mexico City |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 2003-03-27 |
| Date | 1835-04-08 | Pilot: | Richard Clayton | 1800?-1860 | USA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First flight over 500 km. |
| | Cincinnati to Monroe County. Virginia |
| |
| | Aerostat: | "Star of the West" | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 510 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 563 | | km | 349.8 | | Miles | Duration: | 9 h | 30 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. The Eagle Aloft. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1835-07-04 | Pilot: | Richard Clayton | 1800?-1860 | USA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First mail carried in an American balloon. |
| | From Cincinnati to Waverly. Ohio. |
| | Reported as first transatlantic attempt but balloon too small for such. Solo flight |
| | Aerostat: | "Star of the West" | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 510 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 120 | | km | 74.6 | | Miles | Duration: | 6 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. The Eagle Aloft. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1999-09-15 |
| Date | 1836-10-06 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First flight with 10 passengers |
| | Green's 224th ascent |
| | Hist GB: 11 passengers 1836-09-21 |
| | Aerostat: | "Royal Vauxhall". Coal gas | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 1980 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1836-11-08 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Robert Hollond. Thomas Monck-Mason | Passengers: |
| | First flight over 600 km. First use of drag rope. |
| | From London to Weilburg. Nassau. Germany. |
| | Trail-rope described by Baldwin 1786 in Airopaidia (Hist. of Aeronautics in GB) |
| | Aerostat: | "Royal Vauxhall". Coal gas | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 1980 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 608 | | km | 377.8 | | Miles | Duration: | 18 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 3600 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972. Histoire de l'Aeronautique. Freiballonsport in Deutschland (608 km) | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1837-07-24 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Edward Spencer | Passengers: |
| | Robert Cocking killed in parachute descent. |
| | Balloon exceeded 23 000 ft (7 100 m) |
| |
| | Aerostat: | "Royal Nassau". ex "Royal Vauxhall". | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 1980 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 7127 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972. Histoire de l'Aeronautique. Freiballonsport in Deutschland | Updated: | 1996-10-24 |
| Date | 1838-09-10 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | George Rush | Passengers: |
| | Altitude flight |
| | 6 203 m (Hist A in GB) |
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| | Aerostat: | "Royal Nassau". ex "Royal Vauxhall". | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 1980 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 8275 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1839-04-27 | Pilot: | John Wise | 1808-1879 | USA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First use of Rip Panel |
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| |
| | Aerostat: | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Freiballonsport in Deutschland | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1840-08 | Pilot: | Charles Green | 1785-1870 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First time Green publicly mentions Atlantic crossing by balloon. |
| | Green announces plans to fly from the new world to the old. |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | History of Aeronautics in GB. Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 1996-10-24 |
| Date | 1844-04-13 | Pilot: | Thomas Monck-Mason¹ | 1803-1889 | GBR |
| | Copilot: | Robert Hollond | Passengers: |
| | New York Sun prints Edgar Allan Poe's hoax. |
| | Claimed to have flown from North Wales to South Carolina. |
| |
| | Aerostat: | "Victoria" | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 75 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Who's Who B | Updated: | 1998-06-10 |
| Date | 1845-06-12 | Pilot: | Antonio Comaschi | ITA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First ascent in Turkey |
| | Constantinople |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 2003-03-27 |
| Date | 1849-06- | Pilot: | AUT |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | Austrians load 100 small hot air balloons with fused bombs |
| | Siege of Venice |
| |
| | Aerostat: | Unmanned. | Hot Air Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 0 | | km | 0 | | Miles | Duration: | 0 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 0 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972 | Updated: | 1996-04-15 |
| Date | 1849-09-03 | Pilot: | Francois Arban | 1815-1849 | FRA |
| | Copilot: | Passengers: |
| | First Alpine crossing. |
| | Marseilles to Stubini (Stupinigi) near Turin |
| | Flown distance about 644 km - 400 miles. Pilot later disappeared over the Mediterrenean 1849-10-07 |
| | Aerostat: | Gas Balloon | Volume: | 0 | | m3 |
| | Distance | 260 | | km | 161.6 | | Miles | Duration: | 9 h | 0 | | min | Altitude: | 4572 | | meter |
| | Source: | Ballooning 1782-1972. Freiballonsport in Deutschland. Who's Who B | Updated: | 2002-03-04 |
| | © CIA, Hans Åkerstedt | | 2010-09-08 |