Aircraft

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

A small stone memorial marks the spot where a Bristol Beaufort aircraft crashed in 1941.

Hiding in plane sight.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

Once a gas station, this flightless airplane beside the Old Dixie Highway now houses a barbershop.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

A lonely memorial to the 107 victims of Pan Am Flight 812, which crashed in Bali in 1974.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

Pilots from around the world come to this park to fly gliders.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

The world's first jet-powered aircraft were assembled by the Germans in this secret factory in the forest during WWII.