Raymond Orteig

Raymond Orteig

male
Hotelier, Orteig Prize, Transatlanticflight, Hoteliers, World War I, greenwich village
Raymond Orteig (1870 - 1939) was the New York City hotel owner who offered the Orteig Prize for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between New...
Douglas Corrigan

Douglas Corrigan

male, deceased (1995)
Floyd Bennett Field, navigation, aviator, aircraft, American, compass…Transatlanticflight
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (January 22, 1907-December 9, 1995) was an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas. In 1938, after a...
Charles Nungesser

Charles Nungesser

male, deceased (1927)
flying ace, French, charles a. lindbergh, World War I flying ace, Death in absentia, killed in aircraft crash…Transatlanticflight
Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser (March 15, 1892 - presumably on or after May 8, 1927) was a French ace pilot and adventurer, best remembered...

Charles Albert Levine

male, deceased (1991)
Jewish person, suspended sentence, Jewish American, stock market crash, World War I, Jewish…Transatlanticflight
Charles Albert Levine (March 17, 1897 - December 6, 1991) was the first passenger aboard a transatlantic flight. Charles Albert Levine was born on...
Hubert Julian

Hubert Julian

male, deceased (1983)
African American, The Black Eagle, Lieutenant Julian, The Black Lindbergh, Transatlanticflight, Hubert Fauntleroy Julian…transatlantic
Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was an Trinidad born African American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed The Black Eagle. Hubert Julian was a promoter of...
Ludwik Idzikowski

Ludwik Idzikowski

male
Recipient of Virtuti Militari, aviator, polish, Army Officer, killed in aircraft crash, Transatlanticflight
Ludwik Idzikowski (August 24, 1891 - July 13, 1929) was a Polish military aviator. He died during a transatlantic flight trial.

Antal Bánhidi

male, deceased (1994)
World War II, biplane, airplane, aviator, hungarian, austria-hungary…Transatlanticflight, flight time
Antal Bánhidi was a Hungarian aviator. Bánhidi was born in Szatmárnémeti, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1920, he fled Romania by swim...