first transatlantic flight

1919 Atlantic crossing Albert Read Alcock and Brown aviation history Curtiss NC-4 Navy aviation pioneer aviators Vickers Vimy 1919

The Hangar Jun 25, 2026

The Curtiss NC-4 and the Forgotten First Crossing of the Atlantic

On May 16, 1919, the Curtiss NC-4 became the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean - a feat that history has largely handed to someone else.

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The Hangar May 18, 2026

Alcock and Brown and the sixteen hours that crossed the Atlantic for the very first time

Alcock and Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight in June 1919, eight years before Lindbergh, in an open-cockpit biplane.

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