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Early notable transatlantic flights

• May 8 - May 31, 1919. U.S. Navy flying boat NC-4 under command of Albert Cushing Read makes first transatlantic flight, 4,526 statute miles (7,284 km), from Rockaway, New York, to Plymouth, England, via Trepassey,Newfoundland, Azores, Lisbon, Portugal, and other intermediate stops, in 53 hours, 58 minutes.

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy takes off from Newfoundland.

• June 14 - June 15, 1919. Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown of the United Kingdom in Vickers Vimy bomber make first nonstop transatlantic flight, between islands, 1,960 nautical miles (3,630 km), from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, in 16 hours, 12 minutes.
• July 1919. Major George Herbert Scott of the Royal Air Force with his crew and passengers flies from East Fortune, Scotland to Mineola, Long Island in an airship R34, covering a distance of about 3,000 statute miles (4,800 km) in about four and a half days, the first East-West transatlantic flight, then he made a return trip to England.
• March 30 - June 17, 1922. Lieutenant Commander Sacadura Cabral (pilot) and Cdr. Gago Coutinho (navigator) of Portugal, using three Fairey IIID floatplanes ("Lusitania", "Portugal" and "Santa Cruz") used successively after two ditchings, make first flight across the South Atlantic, using only internal means of navigation (the Coutinho-invented sextant with artificial horizon) from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1]

• October 1924. The Zeppelin airship ZR-3 (LZ-126) flies from Germany to New Jersey with a crew commanded by Dr. Hugo Eckener, covering a distance of about 4,000 statute miles (6,400 km). It was the first nonstop aircraft flight between Europe and America mainlands.
• May 8 - May 9, 1927. Charles Nungesser and François Coli attempted at crossing the Atlantic from Paris to the USA in Levasseur PL-8 "L'Oisseau Blanc" biplane, but were lost. According to some witnesses, they might have crashed already in Maine, USA.
• May 20 - May 21, 1927. Charles A. Lindbergh flies Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, in first solo transatlantic flight and first nonstop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and Europe mainlands, 3,600 nautical miles (6,667 km), from New York City to Paris, in 33 1/2 hours. The flight was timed by the Longines watch company.
• June 4 - June 5, 1927. First transatlantic air passenger was Charles A. Levine. He was carried as a passenger by Clarence D. Chamberlin from Roosevelt Field, New York, to Eisleben, Germany, in a Wright-powered Bellanca.
• October 14 - October 15, 1927 - Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix make the first non-stop aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, flying a Breguet 19 from Senegal to Brazil.
• April 12 - April 13, 1928. Gunther von Huenfeld and Capt. Hermann Koehl of Germany and Comdr. James Fitzmaurice of Ireland fly the Junkers monoplane Bremen in first nonstop fixed-wing aircraft westbound flight over North Atlantic, 2,070 statute miles (3,331 km), from Ireland to Labrador, in 36 1/2 hours.
• June 17 - June 18, 1928. Amelia Earhart in Fokker F.VII trimotor Friendship is first woman to fly Atlantic as a passenger.
• September 1 - September 2, 1930. Dieudonne Costes and Le Brix fly the Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane "Point d'Interrogation" (Question Mark) in first nonstop westbound fixed-wing aircraft flight between European and American mainlands, from over North Atlantic, 6,200 km from Paris to New York City.
• June 23-July 1, 1931. Wiley Post as pilot and Harold Gatty as navigator fly Lockheed Vega monoplane Winnie Mae in around-the-world flight, 15,477 nautical miles (28,663 km), from Long Island, New York, in 14 stops, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes; flying time, 107 hours, 2 minutes.
• May 20 - May 21, 1932. Amelia Earhart in Lockheed Vega makes first transatlantic solo flight by a woman, 2,026 nautical miles (3,752 km), from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Derry, Ireland, in 15 hours, 18 minutes.
• August 18 - August 19, 1932. Jim Mollison makes the first solo westbound crossing of the Atlantic, flying a de Havilland Puss Moth from Dublin to New Brunswick
• May 7 - May 8, 1933. Stanislaw Skarzynski makes a solo flight across the South Atlantic, covering 3,582 km (2,226 statute miles), in a smallest plane that crossed the Atlantic, the RWD-5bis - empty weight below 450 kg (990 lb).
• July 1 - July 15, 1933. Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy leads 24 Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes in mass transatlantic flight, 6,100 statute miles (9,817 km), from Orbetello, Italy, to Chicago, Ill., in 47 hours, 52 minutes.
• July 15 - July 22, 1933. Wiley Post flies Lockheed Vega monoplane Winnie Mae in first around-the-world solo flight, 15,596 statute miles (25,099 km) in 11 stops, in 7 days, 8 hours, 49 minutes; flying time, 115 hours, 36 minutes.
• July 14 1948. six de Havilland Vampire F3s of No 54 Squadron RAF became the first jet aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Commanded by Wg Cdr D S Wilson-MacDonald, DSO, DFC, they flew via Stornoway, Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US.
• February 21 1951. An RAF Canberra B Mk 2 (WD932) flown by Sqd Ldr A Callard, became the first jet aircraft to make a non-stop transatlantic flight when it flew from Aldergrove, Northern Ireland to Gander, Newfoundland. The flight covered almost 1,800 miles in 4h 37m. The aircraft was being flown to the US to act as a pattern aircraft for the Martin B-57.

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Commercial transatlantic flight

The North Atlantic presented major challenges for aviators due to unpredictable weather and the huge distances involved coupled with the lack of intermediate stopping points. Initial commercial forays into transatlantic services, therefore, focused more on the South Atlantic, where a number of French, German, and Italian airlines offered seaplane service for mail between South America and West Africa in the 1930s. German airlines, such as Deutsche Luft Hansa, experimented with a number of mail routes over the North Atlantic in the early 1930s, both with seaplanes and with dirigibles, but these were not regularly scheduled services and never led to commercial operations. There were, however, hundreds of commercial transatlantic crossings with passengers made by Zeppelins during the late 1920s and 1930s, including probably the most famous Zeppelin of all, the luxurious Graf Zeppelin.

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Other early transatlantic flights

Apart from most notable flights described above, many persons attempted to fly across Atlantic, which was quite dangerous in early years of aviation. These include:

• June 4 - June 5, 1927. Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine in Bellanca monoplane make first nonstop New York-Germany flight, 3,911 statute miles (6,294 km), in 43 hours, 49 minutes, 33 seconds.

• June 29 - July 1, 1927 - Richard Evelyn Byrd with crew flies Fokker F.VIIa/3m "America" from New York City to France.

• July 13, 1928 - Ludwik Idzikowski and Kazimierz Kubala attempted at crossing the Atlantic westbound from Paris to the USA in Amiot 123 biplane, but crashed on Azores.

• January 16, 1933 - Jean Mermoz and crew make a non-stop flight from Senegal to Brazil, across South Atlantic, in 17 hours 27 minutes.
• February 6 - February 9, 1933. Jim Mollison flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from Senegal to Brazil, across South Atlantic, becoming the first person to fly solo across the North and South Atlantics.
• July 15 - July 17, 1933. Lithuanians Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas were supposed to make a non-stop flight from New York City via Newfoundland to Kaunas, but crashed in the forests of Germany after 6411 km of flying, only 650 km short of their final destination. Flying time 37 hours, 11 minutes.
• June 29 - June 30, 1934 - Polish-Americans Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz, amateur pilots, flew across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to France.