| CIA NOTABLE FLIGHTS | Part Q. Curiosities |
| 1783-08-30 | First aviation Royal decision |
| | Louis XVI King of France¹ |
| | King Louis XVI agreed that first aeronauts be prisoners |
| 1784-01-19 | First flight with more than 2 people |
| | Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier |
| | First stowaway (Fontaine). Airborne heater fired with wood. coal and alcohol. |
| 1784-04-23 | First aviation law |
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| | Requirement that balloons carrying fire aloft must be inspected before flight |
| 1798-10-16 | First ascent with a horse. |
| | Pierre Testu-Brissy |
| | At Monceau |
| 1802-06-28 | High speed flight. Average speed over 100 km/h. |
| | André Jacques Garnerin |
| | London to Colchester. 110 km/h |
| 1804-12-06 | Unmanned balloons released to celebrate Napoleon's coronation. |
| | André Jacques Garnerin¹ |
| | One lands in Rome on Nero's grave. |
| 1811-10-07 | High speed flight. Average speed 135 km/h. |
| | James Gross Sadler |
| | Average speed 135 km/h. From Birmingham |
| 1822-04-27 | First Certificate of Airworthiness |
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| | Authorities in Paris require inspections of hot air balloons. |
| 1822-05-05 | Balloons banned to fly over Durham. UK |
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| | Aviation law holds that those who set things into the air are liable when those things come down on the heads of others |
| 1836-10-06 | First flight with 10 passengers |
| | Charles Green |
| | Green's 224th ascent |
| 1859- | Earliest known photo of an aerostat. |
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| | Industry exhibition. Paris. |
| 1865-11-08 | First balloon honeymoon. |
| | Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe |
| | Manhattan to Mt Vernon. NY |
| 1874-10-19 | First aerial Wedding. |
| | Washington Harrison Donaldson |
| | Cincinnati Hippodrome |
| 1889-11-17 | Twenty persons in a free balloon |
| | Louis Godard |
| | Free flight after tether at Place Trocadero. Paris |
| 1909-xx-xx | Radio-controlled airship model demonstration |
| | Mark O. Anthony |
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| 1910-08-22 | Radio-controlled airship model demonstration. |
| | Raymond Phillips |
| | Empire theatre. Cardiff |
| 1911-10-29 | Charles Dollfus first balloon flight. |
| | Albert Omer-Decugis |
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| 1913-03-xx | High speed flight. Average speed 148 km/h |
| | Ferdinand Eimermacher |
| | Münster to East Preussia. Germany |
| 1929-03-25 | Lowest altitude reached by a Zeppelin. |
| | Hugo Eckener |
| | Dead Sea. Palestine |
| 1935-11-27 | Longest holding - 3 days. Outbreak of revolution in Pernambuco. |
| | Ernst Lehmann |
| | After flight Bathurst. Gambia to Recife de Pernambuco. |
| 1975-04-20 | First baptism in Hot Air Balloon |
| | Sten-Åke Björnstedt |
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| 1977-05-08 | First night flight by Hot Air Airship. |
| | Hans Åkerstedt |
| | Arc-et-Senans. France |
| 1977-09-13 | Charles Dollfus last flight. 66 years after his first |
| | Tom Sage |
| | From Castle Howard. England. during 3rd World Hot Air Balloon Championships |
| 1979-09-16 | Escaped from East Germany in a homebuilt hot air balloon |
| | Hans-Peter Strelzyk |
| | Oberlemnitz. DDR to 5 km S Lichtenberg. West Germany |
| 1983-06-25 | First female pilot in "modern" Gordon Bennett |
| | Nini Boesman |
| | Place de la Concorde. Paris to Orly. 8th place |
| 1984-10-13 | First all female crew in Gordon Bennett |
| | Nikki Caplan |
| | Airport Kloten. Zürich to Villefrance. 11th place |
| 1988-08-18 | Flight with 50 people in a Hot Air Balloon. |
| | Henk Brink |
| | Lelystad airport. Holland |
| 1990-09-21 | First all female crew in Gas Balloon World Championships |
| | Jana Vodsedalkova |
| | Tyndall. South Dakota. USA. 11th place |
| 1992-12-29 | Jojo Maes gas balloon flight no 1 000 |
| | Franz Josef "Jojo" Maes |
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| 1994-08-27 | World record toy balloon launch. |
| | Lucius Peart¹ |
| | 1 592 744 balloons released. |
| 1996-04-21 | Jojo Maes gas balloon flight no 1 111 |
| | Franz Josef "Jojo" Maes |
| | Also 1075 hot air balloon flights |
| 1997-02-01 | Free Balloon Pilot licence holder during 50 years |
| | Don Piccard |
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| 1997-05-22 | First wedding in a Hot Air Balloon performed by the balloon pilot |
| | Eduardo Vaqués Correa |
| | Pilot authorised by law 17.285 |
| 1999-12-31 | Last flight of the twentieth century. at least in Finland |
| | Jan Fröjdman |
| | Lappajärvi at 23:55. 31st December to Seinäjoki next Millenium at 09:00 |
| 2000-01-01 | First flight of the new Millennium. at least in Finland |
| | Jan Fröjdman |
| | Lappajärvi at 23:55. 31st December 1999 to Seinäjoki 1st January 2000 at 09:00 |
| 2001-11-03 | Jojo Maes gas balloon flight no 1 300 |
| | Franz Josef "Jojo" Maes |
| | Marl. Germany to Laage-Lippe |
| 2002-03-11 | Promoted Honorary Doctor of Aeronautics at University of Wolverhampton |
| | Per Axel Lindstrand |
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| | © CIA, Hans Åkerstedt | | 2024-04-19 |