Louis Blériot

male, deceased (1936)
Louis Blériot was a French inventor and engineer. In 1909 he achieved the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when h...
Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

male, deceased (1917)
Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. He was...
Gustave Whitehead

Gustave Whitehead

male, deceased (1927)
Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf, was a German-American aviation pioneer. He reportedly made powered flights in the U.S. in a...
Mike Melvill

Mike Melvill

male, 68 years old
Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill (born November 1941) is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled...
Richard Pearse

Richard Pearse

male, deceased (1953)
Richard William Pearse, a New Zealand farmer and inventor, performed pioneering experiments in aviation. Pearse appears to have successfully flown...
Henri Fabre

Henri Fabre

male, deceased (1984)
Henri Fabre (born in Marseille on 29 November 1882, died in 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of "Le Canard", the first seaplane in...
Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson

female, deceased (1941)
Amy Johnson C.B.E. was a pioneering British aviatrix who was born in Kingston upon Hull.
Anthony Fokker

Anthony Fokker

male, deceased (1939)
Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (April 6, 1890 - December 23, 1939) was a pioneer in aviation and a Dutch-American aircraft manufacturer.
Traian Vuia

Traian Vuia

male, deceased (1950)
Traian Vuia aka Trajan Vuia was a Romanian inventor, who designed and built the first self-propelling heavier-than-air aircraft. Traian Vuia was...
Harold Gatty

Harold Gatty

male
Harold Gatty (born 1903 in Campbell Town, Tasmania - died 1957 in Fiji) was an Australian navigator, inventor, and aviation pioneer. Charles...