1928 Archives

11 March 2025

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith – the Australian aviation pioneer

3 February 2024 Jacek Domański

Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9th February 1897 in Brisbane, Australia. During the Great War, he enlisted the Australian Army where he became a motorcycle dispatch rider and participated in the Gallipoli […]

9 June 1928 – the first transpacific flight is successfully completed

8 June 2023 Jacek Domański

On 9th June 1928, a Fokker F.VII/3 named ´Southern Cross´ flown by Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, successfully landed in Brisbane, Australia, therefore completing the 11,566-kilometre-long journey from Oakland, California. Sir Charles Edward Kingsford […]

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