Clyde Cessna co-founded Travel Air Company in 1925 with Lloyd Stearman and Walter Beech, successfully producing biplanes and establishing their reputations as aircraft manufacturers. Despite his ...

Extra Aircraft, the German company that has designed and manufactured competitive aerobatic airplanes for decades, has revealed its latest model, the Extra 330SX. The new single-seat monoplane’s wings ...

On November 1, 1911, Italian aviator Lt. Giulio Gavotti made history by conducting the first aerial bombing during the ...

The Boeing P-26 “Peashooter” occupies a unique place in aviation history as America’s first all-metal, monoplane pursuit aircraft. More than just a museum piece, the P-26’s blend of 1930s innovation ...

Why fly solo when you can bring along a passenger? That’s probably what Bernard Pietenpol was thinking when he designed and built the Air Camper, a two-seat monoplane. Pietenpol lived a simple life in ...

The Robin Goch (Welsh for 'robin redbreast') is one of the few amateur aeroplanes built before 1914 to survive and it one of the earliest examples of aircraft in the United Kingdom. Built by Charles ...

An original Bleriot monoplane which flew over the Channel to mark the centenary of the first cross-Channel flight has been put on display at Selfridges. Yesterday the aircraft was flown by Swede ...

It was billed in Quad-City newspapers as a great “Dual of Speed” at the Davenport Mile Track, now the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds: an epic race between land and sky. On a warm sunny Sunday ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC single seat, low wing monoplane ground attack fighter; enclosed cockpit; steel tube fuselage ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Watercolor of Bleriot's monoplane in ...