First powered flight in the UK
(1908)

thing and powered flight

Died aged 0

Commemorated on 1 plaque

Dcs57 on Wikimedia Commons
Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom

FIRST FLIGHT IN THE UK Near this spot, on 16 October 1908, Samuel Franklin Cody took off in British Army Aeroplane Number 1 to make the first powered, controlled, sustained, heavier than air flight in the UK. Erected in 2016 to commemorate Cody's achievement and to mark the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Farnborough Rd, Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom where it was (1908)