Lee Cross

Assistant Editor - Airliner World. Contributor and former deputy editor at Airways.

Latest Articles

1/14/1976: British Airways Receives Its First Concorde

1/11/1989: AASI Jetcruzer 450 First Flight

1/09/1962: Hawker Siddeley Trident Maiden Flight

1/05/1955: Concórdia-based Transbrasil Is Founded

1/04/1964: First Papal Visit to Use a Commercial Airliner

1/03/1981: Pan Am Retires the Boeing 707

1/01/1922: World's First Airline Uniforms

12/31/2006: BWIA Becomes Caribbean Airlines

12/27/2014: Qantas Retires Its Last Passenger Boeing 767

12/25/2011: VietJet Air Operates Its Maiden Flight

12/24/1905: Aviator Howard Hughes is Born

12/22/1976: Maiden Flight of the Ilyushin Il-86

Legacy Articles

4/12/1992: US Air Shuttle Takes over Trump Shuttle

4/06/1981: Air California Is Rebranded Air Cal

10/15/2007: Airbus Delivers First A380 to Singapore Airlines

4/05/2012: Volotea Begins to 'Fly Around'

4/04/1993: Maiden Flight of the Fokker 70

3/30/1973: Hapag-Lloyd Flug Takes to the Skies

10/03/2004: Iraqi Airways Restarts Operations

10/04/1958: BOAC's First Transatlantic Jet-powered Flight

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