First flights to Hawaii

The first flight in Hawaii occurred on December 31, 1910.

On December 31, 1910 the first powered airplane flight in Hawaii took place at Sam Damon's Moanalua Polo Field about a mile north of Honolulu International Airport.
J. C. Bud Mars took off in a Curtiss P-18 biplane, the Skylark, as thousands of residents watched from the field and surrounding hillsides.

The First Navy Pacific Flight

On August 31, 1925, Commander John Rodgers and his crew, in the PN-9 No. 1 seaplane, flew 1,992 statute miles from San Pablo, California landing in the ocean near Maui and setting a new world record for a non-stop flight by seaplane.

In 1925 Commander John Rodgers, USN, on August 31 in the PN-9 Seaplane (2 Packard 500 hp engines) flew 1,992 statute miles from San Pablo, California to a point near Honolulu, although he failed to reach his objective, in Honolulu.
This “failure” constituted a new world record for a non-stop flight by seaplane.

Emory Bronte and Ernest Smith were the first civilians to successfully fly from California to Hawaii, crash landing on Molokai when they ran out of fuel on July 15, 1927.

Major Harold Clark made the first interisland flight on May 9, 1918.


Source: http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/

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