Significant Aviation Milestones in the Philippines

 Significant Aviation Milestones



 

When

What

Who

Where

First Military Airbase

June 29, 1922

Reaction to Japan gaining leadership in aviation in Asia

Nihon Kokuyuso Kankyujo (NKK) by the Japan Air Transport

Camp Nichols

First Airport Construction outside Manila

February 1923

Northern sentinel for aircraft movements from the north

 

Trinidad Valley and Laoag

First Attempts on Airmail Delivery out of the Philippines

November 1923

Oriole aircraft

American civilian pilot Charles Kenner

Philippines to China

First Filipino Aviation School

1924

Valeriano School of Aviation

Jose Valeriano and Briccio Sanchez

Pasig, Rizal

First Public Relations Flight

January 17, 1924

DH4/ Divert attention from Senator Teopisto Guingona

Gen. William Mitchell (Assistant Chief of the US Air Service)/ Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo

Nichols over Cavite, Zambales, Bataan and Pampanga

Start of Subic

February 1924/ March 1924

Squadron of seaplanes (naval mother ship, the USS Ajax)/ second hand Jenny from US Air Service

Department of Agriculture; Flown by Briccio Sanchez

Olongapo

First Distance Flight between Jolo and Manila

May 1924

Two military DH4/ establish a record in distance flying in 7h15m

 

Jolo to Manila/ stopovers in Zamboanga and New Washington in Panay

First Charter and Air Taxi Operator in the Visayas

1925

Aeromarine 50C and Curtiss Junior Cabin landplane

Jose Tinsay

Negros- Iloilo

First European Aviators on the World Tour Land in the Philippines.

August 27, 1925

Savoia SA.16 seaplane

Italian Maj. Francesco de Pinedo and Ernesto Companelli

From Lago Naggiore via Rome, Australia, Celebes, Borneo, Philippines(Zamboanga, Manila), China and Tokyo

Forced landings: Cebu, Tayabas Bay near Siain, Antimonan River

Flew Aparri, Batanes, Formosa, Shanghai, Tokyo

Military Airmail Run

January 17, 1926

 

Loening COA-1

 

Balingasag, Misamis

AR

AGON, YVONNE P.                                                         


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