The Mollisons also flew in record time from Britain to India in 1934 in a de Havilland DH. 88 Comet as part of the Britain to Australia MacRobertson Air Race.

* Air Comet, its IATA airline designator

* Air Comet begins airline operations.

Near the war memorial, the Air Crash Memorial is a memorial to several young people from the town killed on 3 July 1970 when a Dan Air de Havilland Comet deviated from its intended course and crashed into high ground at Sierra Del Montseny, Girona in north-eastern Spain.

In 1934, the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia took place with the winning de Havilland Comet flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.

* MPD, the ICAO airline designator for Air Comet

In 1947, the Silver Comet was introduced by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad during the height of passenger rail use.

The scene in which Scott takes off with Courtney clinging to the wing, switches to a shot of a Travel Air 4U Speedwing fitted with a round cowl over its Comet engine to resemble the Nieuports.

* May 18 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad inaugurates the Silver Comet passenger train between New York City and Birmingham, Alabama.

Air Comet ( formerly Air Plus Comet ) was an airline based in Madrid, Spain.

The airline was established in 23 December 1996 as Air Plus Comet and started operations in 1 March 1997, with base at Madrid Barajas Airport.

) became the foundation of Air Plus Comet.

It relaunched as a full service carrier under the Air Comet name in January 2007.

In January 2007, Air Comet took over some of the now defunct Air Madrid airline's Latin American routes.

Air Comet Airbus A310-300 at Madrid-Barajas

Air Comet Airbus A320-211 ( EC-KBM ) lands at Almería International Airport

On 11 February 2009, Air Comet has been suspended from IATA Clearing House due to non-payment of January balance.

On 21 December 2009, a High Court in London emitted a verdict favouring the German bank HSH Nordbank, which had sued Air Comet for not meeting the terms of payment for their leased aircraft.

Air Comet flew to the following destinations ( as of December 2009 ):

* Air Paradise, a defunct Indonesian airline by IATA code

* Fina Air ( defunct )

* Air Canada Tango, a defunct low-cost airline launched by Air Canada

* Butler Air Transport, a defunct Australian company

* England Air Force Base ( defunct )

Although initial intentions were to begin this route in November 2005 with Tristar jetliners, this service never started and Air Scotland is now defunct.

* Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline

* Eastern Christian College, a defunct US college in Bel Air, Maryland

The best known cultural exports of the city of Oulu are Air Guitar World Championships, Mieskuoro Huutajat ( also known as Screaming Men ), and the now defunct metal band Sentenced.

It used to be one of the five main hubs of the now defunct multi-national airline, Air Afrique.

In June 1920, the Aero Club of St. Louis leased 170 acres of cornfield, the defunct Kinloch Racing Track and the Kinloch Airfield in October 1923, during The International Air Races.

* Austrian Air Services, a defunct airline from Austria ( ICAO designator )

* Pacific Air Lines, a defunct airline

* Rockwell Field, a defunct United States Air Force base, San Diego, California

The Center was often featured prominently on the Al Franken Show on the now defunct Air America Radio network, where Christy Harvey and Al Franken criticized the Bush administration at length, accusing it of dishonesty and incompetence.

Prior to becoming an actor, he was a flight attendant for the now defunct Eastern Air Lines.

* Africa Safari Air, a now defunct airline based in Kenya

* AirTran JetConnect, an outsourced and defunct brand operated by Air Wisconsin

Boeing 777-200 with shared livery of Air Algérie and the defunct Khalifa Airways in February 2003

* Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization ( 1968 ), the defunct US Air Traffic Controllor labor union

* Stony Brook Air Force Station, a defunct facility of the United States Air Force in Ludlow, Massachusetts

* Tower Air website ( defunct )