Grumman F-11 Tiger, Bu. 141832, displayed at Cradle Of Aviation in Garden City, NY.

Warbird Registry Profile: Grumman F-11 Tiger/Bu. 141832

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CAC CA-13 Boomerang/A46-122 - “Suzy Q”

FMI: Warbird Registry

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8 March 1910
Mademoiselle Elise Deroche, better known under her self awarded title ‘la Baronne de Laroche’, becomes the world’s first qualified female pilot and the 36th French pilot, when she is awarded her brevet.

10 March 1910
Frenchman Emil Aubrun makes the world’s first night flights in a Blériot monoplane at Villalugano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

William W. Gibson, of British Colombia, finishes work on the engine for the Gibson Twin-plane.

13 March 1910
The first aeroplane flight in Switzerland is made by Captain Engelhardt in a Wright A biplane from an ice covered lake at St Moritz.

12 March 1912
The French Service de l’Aéronautique de la Marine is formed.

14 March 1915
Lincoln Beachey dies when the wings break off his monoplane while he attempts a power dive from 3,000 feet at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco.

8 March 1917
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the father of the rigid airship, dies of pneumonia aged 78.

12 March 1917
Revolution in Russia.

10 March 1918
The Junkers D1, an all-metal single-seat cantilever monoplane fighter, is flown as a prototype. 41 aircraft are eventually produced.

11 March 1918
The first regular international air mail is organized in Austria by A.R. von Marwil. Mail is carried in a Hansa-Brandenburg CI from Vienna to Lvov (then Lemberg) and Proskurov via Cracow. A branch service is also run from Proskurov to Odessa. The service expands on 11 July 1918 by adding Budapest to its destinations, but later collapses with the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

14 March 1918
American aircraft of the 95th (Pursuit) squadron begin patrol flights over the Western Front, defending the River Marne from German reconnaissance aircraft. Observation patrols begin on the 19 March with aircraft of the 94th (Pursuit) squadron.

10 March 1919
The Australian Government announces a prize of £10,000 for the first flight from Great Britain to Australia by Australians, which must be completed within 720 consecutive hours by the end of the year.

Brigadier General William ‘Billy’ Mitchell becomes the United States Director of Military Aeronautics.

13 March 1922
Portuguese pilots Captain Gago Coutinho and Captain Sacadura Cabral set off on a transatlantic flight from Lisbon to Brazil flying a Fairey IIIC. They arrive on 16 June in Fairey IIID ‘Santa Cruz’, their third machine, as earlier two have been wrecked.

12 March 1925
The first Fokker FVIIa makes its maiden flight.

8 March 1926
Dr Robert H. Goddard statically tests one of his first rockets.

14 March 1927
Pan American World Airways (Pan-Am) is formed.

10 March 1934
After nine fatalities the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) internal mail services are stopped.

9 March 1935
It is announced in Germany that the Luftwaffe has been established.

13 March 1937
Italy announces a four-year expansion program for its air force.

14 March 1939
Hitler announces that Czechoslovakia has become a German Protectorate and its occupation begins the following day.

12 March 1940
Finland capitulates to Soviet invaders in the Winter War.

10 March 1943
The 14th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) is activated with Major General Clair Chennault in command.

0 March 1945
German forces, including air units, continue to attack the bridge at Remagen in an effort to eliminate this allied bridgehead over the Rhine.

9-10 March 1945
279 Marianas-based Boeing B-29s begin a new campaign of low-altitude incendiary night attacks against Japanese cities with an attack on Tokyo.

8 March 1946
The Bell Model 47 is granted the first commercial helicopter certificate to be awarded by the United States Civil Aviation Authority.

13 March 1951
Qantas Consolidated Catalina ‘Frigate Bird II’ (VH-ASA) begins a survey flight from Sydney to Chile via Ester Island and makes the airline’s first flight across the South Pacific.

10 March 1953
Two Czechoslovakian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG15 jets attack two United States Air Force (USAF) Republic F-84 Thunderjets near Bavaria.

13 March 1953
Six Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG15 jet fighters are shot down during air fighting over North Korea.

8 March 1954
The United States and Japan sign a mutual defence agreement.

11 March 1955
Pakistan International Airlines absorbs the fleet and routes of Orient Airways.

8 March 1956
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines orders twelve Lockheed Electras the first European order for American propeller-turbine engine airliners.

14 March 1956
A new version of the Northrop Scorpion twin-jet all weather fighter is in production.

The first successful launch of a Chrysler Redstone, or Jupiter, is made from Cape Canaveral. This tactical bombardment missile is developed by a team headed by Dr Wernher von Braun the designer of Germany’s V2 rocket.

9 March 1966
General de Gaulle, the President of France, announces that France is to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Alliance.

8 March 1967
The West German Air Force announce that all the ejection seats in their Lockheed F-104G Starfighter fleet will be replaced with Martin-Baker GQ7 seats.

8 March 1974
Charles De Gaulle Airport, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) from the center of Paris and Europe’s newest international airport, is officially opened by the French Prime Minister.

9 March 1987
USAir makes public its buy-out of Piedmont Airlines for $1.59 billion.

12 March 1993
General Dynamics’ Military Aircraft Division is acquired by Lockheed in a $1.525 billion deal, which includes the highly successful F-16 fighter.

13 March 1998
Hans von Ohain, who pioneered the design of the jet engine in Germany, dies.

11 March 2001
The Lockheed Martin X-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) completes its flight test schedule, logging 73 flights and 58 hours flying time. The X-35B Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the JSF begins testing of its Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities.

15 March 2001
Two hijackers, identifying themselves as Chechen rebels, seize control of a Vnukovo Airlines Tu154 with 162 passengers on board as it departs Istanbul Ataturk airport. The aircraft lands safely at Medina airport in Saudi Arabia, where the hijack is brought to an end by Saudi Special Forces, who storm the airplane, killing one of the hijackers, a passenger and a stewardess.

11March 2005
Jetsgo ceases all operations and declares bankruptcy protection.

China’s first private airline, Okay Airlines has its maiden revenue flight.

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That’s all for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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5 March 1906
The Vuia I, built by Romanian born aviator Trajan Vuia, is the first aircraft with pneumatic tires and is first tested at Montesson in France. However, the aircraft was virtually flightless. Five ‘flights’ were made of which the longest was 24 meters.

March 1911
The Aeronautica Militar Espanola is formed in Spain.

Captain Chambers of the United States Bureau of Navigation is ordered to assist in the formation of a United States Navy (USN) aviation branch.

3 March 1911
Philip O. Parmelee, with Lieutenant B. Foulois as passenger, receives radio messages and drops written messages to army units during a flight near the Mexico/Texas border.

5 March 1911
The Belgian Army Balloon Company is formed as the Compagnie des Ouviers et Aerostiers.

March 1912
The German Aviation Experimental Establishment (DVL) is established at Berlin-Adlershof.

The first seaplane competition is held at Monaco.

Structural failures lead the French government to ground Blériot monoplanes. Louis Blériot investigates and the ban is lifted after two weeks.

The Liore & Olivier aircraft company is founded by French engineers Fernand Liore and Henri Olivier.

1 March 1912
The first parachute jump from an aeroplane, a Benoist biplane, is made over Jefferson Barracks in St Louis, USA, by Captain Albert Berry.

5 March 1912
Bob Fowler completes a west to east coast-to-coast crossing of the USA, from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, after 4 months.

March 1913
The twin-engined Bolshoi Bal’tisky (The Great Baltic) or Grand RBVZ, produced by Igor Sikorsky, takes its first flight.

China orders it’s first military aircraft, 12 Caudrons, from France.

5 March 1913
The 1st Aero Squadron of the United States Army is formed.

3 March 1915
The United States National Advisory Committee is established by Congress to investigate the problems of flight and solutions to them. The organization is a forerunner to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

4 March 1915
$300,000 funding is passed by the United States Congress for the development of army aviation in 1916.

5 March 1915
Zeppelin LZ33 (L8) crashes near Ostend after being hit by gunfire over Nieuport during a mission to attack Britain.

7 March 1915
Paris comes under attack from German Zeppelins.

March 1918
The Aviation of the 1st Polish Corps is formed from the 1st Polish aviation Unit.

Ilmailuvòimat, the Finnish Air Arm, is formed.

Dr Ing Theodor von Kárman and Wilheim Zurovec complete an electrically powered helicopter in Budapest. The PKZ1 performs four tethered lift-offs, with all but one carrying three people.

3 March 1918
The American Expeditionary Force (AEF) begin airship operations with the French Astra-Torres AT1 non-rigid dirigible (steerable airship).

5 March 1918
The 2nd Balloon company is established, becoming the first United States balloon unit to serve operationally in France with American Expeditionary Force (AEF) ground forces.

March 1919
Italian Caproni aeroplanes are used to inaugurate a regular international air service between Padova and Vienna.

1 March 1919
German airline Deutsche Luft-Reederei extends its air network to Hamburg.

3 March 1919
William Boeing and Edward Hubbard use the Boeing Model CL4S to carry out the first United States international air mail service, between Seattle in America and Victoria in Canada.

5 March 1923
Igor Sikorsky, having previously escaped from Russia, forms the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation in the USA.

March 1934
A Tupolev ANT-4, piloted by A.V. Lyapidevsky, makes the first landing on ice in the Arctic, while on a rescue mission.

March 1936
The first flight test of a liquid-fuel rocket, developed by the German Wernher von Braun, ends in failure when the test Heinkel He112 explodes. The pilot Erich Warsitz is thrown clear.

4 March 1936
The world’s largest rigid airship, the German Zeppelin Company’s LZ129 ‘Hindenburg’, makes its first flight.

7 March 1936
Hitler renounces the 1925 Locano Treaty and German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.

3 March 1939
The first Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 flying boat is named ‘Yankee Clipper’ by Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt at a ceremony in Washington DC.

2-4 March 1943
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea: a major attempt by the Japanese to re-enforce Lae is foiled by United States Southwest Pacific Air Forces. 40,000 tons of Japanese shipping is sunk and almost 60 aircraft are destroyed.

4 March 1944
During the first United States Army Air Force (USAAF) attack on Berlin, 69 of the 660 heavy bombers deployed are lost and 11 escort fighters are shot down.

5 March 1944
Brigadier General Orde Wingate’s special force lands at ‘Broadway’ in North Burma, in a night glider (sailplane) operation.

6 March 1951
The United States Air Force (USAF) approves license production of the English Electric Canberra by the Glenn L. Martin Company, under the designation ‘B-57′. It is the first operational aircraft of non-United States design to be accepted into service with the USAF since the 2nd World War.

5 March 1953
A Polish Air Force pilot lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet and seeks political asylum on the Danish island of Bornholm.

1 March 1954
A ban on the production of military aircraft in Japan is lifted. An agreement between the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and the Kawasaki Aircraft company gives Kawasaki the right to manufacture Lockheed F-94C Starfire jets and T-33A jets.

United States hydrogen bombs are exploded on Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

1 March 1955
A second United States Air Force (USAF) Early Warning and Control Wing becomes operational, flying Lockheed RC-121s.

2 March 1955
The Boeing Airplane Company receives its first major production contract for the KC-135 Stratotanker.

1 March 1956
Turkish airline DHY adopts the name THY-Turkish Airlines.

3 March 1959
United States Pioneer 4 space probe is launched in an attempt to obtain pictures of the Moon’s surface, while making a fly-past of about 32,200 kilometers (20,000 miles).

6 March 1965
A Sikorsky SH3A Sea King makes the first non-stop helicopter flight across North America. Taking off from the carrier USS Hornet at San Diego in California, it lands on the carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt at Jacksonville in Florida. The distance travelled is 3,405 kilometers (2,116 miles) and a new international straight-line distance record for helicopters is established.

2 March 1969
The Sud Aviation/British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Concorde 001 Super Sonic Transport (SST) prototype makes its first flight at Toulouse, piloted by André Turcat, Sud’s chief test pilot.

2 March 1971
A change in policy means that female United States Air Force (USAF) officers can take 12 months leave from the service if they become pregnant.

3 March 1974
A McDonnell Douglas DC10 of THY Turkish Airlines crashes into forests North of Paris, killing all 346 people on board. in the world’s worst air disaster to date. The crash spread wreckage over a 7 mile radius.

1 March 1984
Braniff begins to operate a domestic airline services in the United States after a two year gap caused by bankruptcy.

3 March 2001
A Thai airways International Boeing 737-400 is destroyed while parked at Bangkok international airport. The explosion and subsequent fire occur 35 minutes before Thailand’s Prime Minister is due to board the aircraft for a flight to Chaing Mai.

6 March 2001
Northrop Grumman RQ4A Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is cleared for production and testing with the United States Air Force.

4 March 2002
Ansett (Mark II) permanently ceases operations.

5 March 2005
Steve Fossett completes the first non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, completing the trip in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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Oh, being the moderator of the 1941 HAG Museum Website Message Board, it’s time I stuck in a blatant plug for the 1st Museum Event of 2010 which is being held next Saturday. Get ready….here it comes:

Help the HAG…

1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum

1st Annual Chili Cook Off & Auction

Bring your family and friends…

February 27, 2010 @12:30-3:00

Swanson Hall, Big Tree Lane, Geneseo

Here’s how it works:
To Enter the Contest: Bring a pot of your Best Chili

1st Place Prize – Airplane Ride

Or: Come to taste and vote, Everyone Welcome!

To Help the HAG: Donate an item from home or work to auction

We will “Make Some Noise” auctioning them off…all proceeds go to the HAG

FUN and Outdoor Games for the Children at 1:00
(dress them for the weather)

X-Country Skiing is welcomed… Bring your own skis

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22 February 1911
Henri Pequet and Captain W.G. Windham begin a regular airmail service between Allahabad and Naini Junction in India, to coincide with the Universal Postal Exhibition in Allahabad.

27 February 1913
Slavorosov, Caproni’s chief test pilot, flies from Milan to Rome on a tour arranged by the La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.

25 February - 25 April 1934
American airwoman Laura Ingalls undertakes a solo flight round South America, a distance of 27,359 kilometers (17,000 miles).

26 February 1940
The United States War Department forms the United States Air Defense Command to integrate defenses against possible air attack.

25 February 1941
The Air Defense Force (PVO) is formed in the Soviet Union.

22 February 1942
The first United States Army Air Force (USAAF) headquarters in Europe are established in the United Kingdom with Brigadier General I.C. Eaker commanding.

29 February 1944
5th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) aircraft support landings in the Admiralty Islands.

23 February 1945
The German Air Force sinks its last ship of the Second World War; the Henry Bacon belonging to convoy RA64.

28 February 1945
The first manned flight of the Bachem Ba349 Natter kills the pilot, Oberleutnant Lothar Siebert. Three subsequent manned launches are successful and the aircraft is approved for operational use, although it will not see service.

24 February 1949
Termination of the Arab-Israeli war is confirmed by an Armistice signed on Rhodes.

26 February - 2 March 1949
The first non-stop round the world flight is made by the United States Air Force (USAF) B50 ‘Lucky Lady II’, piloted by Captain James Gallagher. The aircraft is refuelled in flight four times during its 94 hour 1 minute flight and covers a distance of 37,742 kilometers (23,452 miles).

26 February 1955
George F. Smith becomes the first man in the world to live after an ejection from a North American F-100 Super Sabre traveling at supersonic speed (Mach 1.05) after his controls jammed.

25 February 1961
Paul F. Bikle, Director of NASA’s Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California pilots a Schweizer I23E glider (sailplane) to a height of 14,102 meters (46,267 feet)

29 February 1964
President Johnson reveals the existence of the Lockheed A-11 high altitude high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.

22 February 1974
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Barbara Ann Allen becomes the first woman transport pilot in the United States Navy.

27 February 1979
Production of the A-4 Skyhawk ends after 26 years, with the delivery of the 2,690th and final aircraft to the United States Marine Corps (USMC).

24 February 1982
The Australian government confirms the purchase of HMS Invincible from the Royal Navy.

22 February 1988
It is announced that the Air Industries Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Iran has produced an in-house two-seat light aircraft.

25 February 1988
India first launches the indigenously developed Prithvi tactical missile.

28 February 1994
United States Air Force (USAF) General Dynamics F-16 fighters shoot down four Serbian Soko G4 Super Galeb strike aircraft engaged in bombing operations against Croation townships within the United Nations ‘no-fly’ zone.

23 February 1997
93 construction workers are rescued by helicopter from a burning Bangkok skyscraper, which caught fire during building work.

28 February 1998
The unmanned Ryan RQ4A Global Hawk flies for the first time. The aircraft is intended to replace the United States Air Force’s Lockheed U2 in the high-altitude, long-range reconnaissance role. (Hmmmm..Didn’t work out )

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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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Damaris Lewis shooting some pictures for the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue at the Palm Springs Air Museum.

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19 February 1934
All existing air mail contracts are cancelled and the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) begins flying internal mail services.

19 February 1936
Brigadier General William ‘Billy’ Mitchell, the United States Army Air Corps’ advocate of air power, dies in the Doctor’s Hospital in New York.

19 February 1942
The first air attack on Australia takes place when Japanese bombers attack shipping in the harbor at Port Darwin.

15 February 1943
Major General Iran C. Eaker is appointed as Commanding General of the 8th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in the United Kingdom, in succession to Major General Carl Spaatz.

15 February 1944
222 allied bombers attack the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy. The Germans had not occupied the monastery buildings but immediately after the raid they turn the ruins into a bastion. Successive attempts to take the monastery fail and it is not until 18 May that Polish forces succeed in occupying the heights.

17 February 1944
Twelve radar equipped United States Navy (USN) Grumman TBF1C Avengers, from the USS Enterprise, attack Truk by night. This is the first night bombing attack launched by an American aircraft carrier.

16 February 1945
United States Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47s drop more than 2,000 paratroopers on Corregidor. The island has already been ’softened up’ by a major bombardment of Japanese positions.

17 February 1945
Softening up operations begin against Iwo Jima. United States Navy (USN) carrier aircraft and naval guns combine with the 7th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Consolidated B24 Liberators to pound Japanese positions.

19 February 1945
United States Marines, with massive air and sea bombardment support, begin landing on Iwo Jima.

21 February 1945
The American carrier USS Saratoga is hit and badly damaged by a Kamikaze attack.

16 February 1953
Two Republic F-84 Thunderjets flown by Japanese Defense Force pilots intercept two Russian piston-engined fighters over north Japan.

18-19 February 1953
United States aircraft make heavy attacks on Communist forces in North Korea.

18 February 1956
Finnair inaugurates airline services to Moscow.

19 February 1957
The Bell X14 makes its first hovering flight.

17 February 1959
The United States Navy (USN) launches the weather-reporting Vanguard II satellite into Earth orbit.

20 February 1962
The United States’ first earth orbit astronaut is launched into space. Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) completes 3 orbits in a flight time of 4 hours 55 minutes 23 seconds.

21 February 1973
Israeli fighters shoot down a Libyan Airlines Boeing 727, killing all 104 passengers and crew. Israel claims the aircraft had flown into restricted airspace over the Sinai peninsula and that all attempts to communicate with the pilot had failed.

18 February 1981
John K. Northrop, founder of Northrop Aircraft, dies.

16 February 1982
The first Airbus A310 is completed at Toulouse. The aircraft is destined for service with Swissair.

20 February 1986
A permanently manned space station, the Soviet Union’s ‘Mir’ (Peace), is launched.

16 February 2001
Allied aircraft attack Iraqi military control and communications sites south of Baghdad. The attacks come in response to continued threats to Allied aircraft policing the Southern No-Fly zone from Iraqi anti aircraft systems

21 February 2001
A General Atomics RQ1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) test fires a laser guided AGM114 Hellfire missile.

17 February 2005
several airlines will have to pay heavy compensation to passengers for flight delays and cancellations under a European regulation.

Opening of a new international airport in Nagoya, Japan. It is the third Japanese international airport.

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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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