- June, 1875 – Thomas Moy's Aerial Steamer, London, England (pilotless, tethered)[1]
- October 9, 1890 – Clément Ader – took off from Gretz-Armainvilliers, Ouest of Paris, France.
- August 14, 1901 – Gustave Whitehead from Leutershausen, Bavaria.
- May 15, 1902 – Lyman Gilmore – took off from Grass Valley, California.
- March 31, 1903 – Richard Pearse – took off from Waitohi Flat, Temuka, South Island, New Zealand.
- December 17, 1903 – Wright brothers Wright Flyer – First successful piloted and controlled heavier-than-air powered aircraft; flights took place four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- March 18, 1906 – Traian Vuia, a Romanian inventor and engineer, who flew 11 meters in his self-named monoplane at Montesson near Paris, France.
- October 23, 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont 14-bis made a manned powered flight in Bagatelle Park, Paris, France, that was the first to be publicly witnessed by a crowd.[2]
- July 4, 1908 – Glenn Curtiss flew the first pre-announced public flight in the United States of America of a heavier-than-air flying machine. He flew 5,080 feet, to win the Scientific American Trophy and its $2,500 purse (equivalent to $81,000 in 2022).
- December 22, 1916 – Sopwith Camel – this iconic biplane first took off from Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey.
- July 28, 1935 – Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress – World War II American heavy bomber.
- December 17, 1935 – Douglas DC-3 – propeller-driven passenger and cargo aircraft of which more than 10,000 were produced.
- December 29, 1939 – Consolidated B-24 – World War II American heavy bomber.
- November 2, 1947 – Hughes H-4 Hercules – only flight of this oversized flying boat whose common name is Spruce Goose.
- July 27, 1949 – de Havilland Comet – first jet airliner.
- August 23, 1954 – Lockheed C-130 Hercules – military transport plane.
- May 27, 1955 – Sud Aviation Caravelle – first jet airliner with engines mounted in the tail.
- March 25, 1958 – Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow – Canadian supersonic fighter interceptor. First non-experimental aircraft designed and equipped with a fly-by-wire flight control system.
- April 25, 1962 – Lockheed A-12 – supersonic reconnaissance aircraft.
- June 29, 1962 – Vickers VC10 – first airliner with 4 engines mounted in the tail.
- April 9, 1967 – Boeing 737 – short-to-medium-range airliner.
- October 4, 1968 – Tupolev Tu-154 – Soviet/Russian airliner, still in operation.
- December 31, 1968 – Tupolev Tu-144 – Soviet supersonic airliner.
- February 9, 1969 – Boeing 747 – first widebody airliner.
- March 2, 1969 – Anglo-French Concorde – supersonic airliner.
- September 19, 1969 – Mil Mi-24 – Russian/Soviet-made helicopter used by many countries to this day.
- October 28, 1972 – Airbus A300 – first Airbus aircraft, short- to medium-range wide-body jet airliner.
- February 22, 1987 – Airbus A320 airliner – first civilian aircraft to have an all-digital fly-by-wire system.
- December 21, 1988 – Antonov An-225 Mriya – jet with the longest fuselage and wingspan and overall heaviest aircraft.
- June 12, 1994 – Boeing 777 – long-range airliner with the most powerful jet engines ever made.
- May 20, 2003 – Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne – The first commercial sub-orbital space craft.
- April 27, 2005 – Airbus A380 – double-decker jet airliner, currently largest capacity in the world, took off from Toulouse–Blagnac Airport.
- December 11, 2009 – Airbus A400M – military cargo plane, Airbus' first propeller plane.
- December 15, 2009 – Boeing 787 Dreamliner – first major widebody airliner to use non-metal composite materials for most of its construction.
- November 11, 2015 – Mitsubishi Regional Jet – Japanese twin-engine regional jet, the first designed and built in Japan, took off from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Tokyo.
- May 5, 2017 – Comac C919 – Chinese commercial aircraft.
- April 13, 2019 – Scaled Composites Stratolaunch – The world's largest airplane
- January 25, 2020 – Boeing 777X – The world's longest and largest twin-engine airliner.
- April 19, 2021 – Ingenuity – an unmanned robotic helicopter, first aircraft to fly on Mars.
- December 14, 2022 – Baykar Bayraktar K?z?lelma – a single-engine, low-observable, carrier-capable, jet-powered unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
To watch K?z?lelma maiden flight : https://youtu.be/CtFP0Pu8xlw
