The inaugural flight involved a mercy flight from North Arm Settlement to Stanley to bring a girl with peritonitis to life-saving medical help in Stanley.

For the inaugural flight, the land at the Gymkhana, Vacoas was converted into an improvised airport.

** Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

Alger, who flew the inaugural air mail flight from England to Australia for Imperial Airways ' Empires Air Routes, in February 1937.

The West Ham Hammers team were involved in the top flight leagues 1929 to 1939, 1946 to 1955 and 1964 to 1971, winning the inaugural British League in 1965.

Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve some 34 destinations, operating scheduled domestic and international services and cargo flights to Europe, North America, Africa and the Near and Far East from its main base in Ben Gurion International Airport.

The inaugural flight was with a Fiat G. 12 Alcione, piloted by Virginio Reinero from Turin to Catania and Rome.

The flights were due to launch on the 17 April but due to the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull and closure of Northern European airspace, the airline had to cancel the inaugural flight.

In June 1996, the first Douglas DC-9-82 of Italian airline Air One Smart Carrier landed at 14: 14 for the inaugural charter flight.

STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Double Research Module on its inaugural flight, the Freestar experiment ( mounted on a Hitchhiker Program rack ), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.

This airport was the destination for the 1929 Mexicana inaugural flight.

The inaugural flight into Rochester was from Gravesend, John Parker flying their Short Scion G-ACJI.

Tampa Bay was the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat — the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.

On May 20, 2004, even prior to its inaugural flight, Independence Air signed a deal with the Washington Redskins to become the official airline sponsor of the team for three years.

In 1982 the inaugural revenue flight of the Boeing 767 landed at Stapleton, after a flight from O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Using a Benoist XIV amphibious aircraft, the inaugural flight took place from a location near the downtown St. Petersburg Pier.

Delta Air Lines operated the inaugural flight.

On 26 December 1975, Domodedovo Airport was selected for the inaugural flight of Tupolev Tu-144 to Alma Ata, now called Almaty.

The inaugural flight from Dublin took place on 19 January 1940 to Liverpool.

On 22 June 1984, Virgin Atlantic operated its inaugural scheduled service between Gatwick and Newark using a leased Boeing 747-200 ( registration G-VIRG ), christened Maiden Voyager, formerly operated by Aerolíneas Argentinas.

From 17 June 2010, Royal Brunei Airlines introduced ex-Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft to replace the Boeing 767 fleet being returned to their lessors ; the inaugural Boeing 777 service was the Bandar Seri Begawan – London / Heathrow service via Dubai, on 17 June.

Entering service on May 22, 1933, a Boeing Air Transport 247 set a cross-country record pace of 19½ hours on its San Francisco to New York inaugural flight.

* May 20 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705, a Boeing 720-040B on an inaugural flight carrying mostly journalists and owners of travel agencies and crewed by what the airline considered its best crew members, crashes short of the runway while descending to land at Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 119 of the 125 people on board and injuring all six survivors.

* 24 January – The Inkwazi ( the South African Air Force Boeing Business Jet ) while on a flight taking President Thabo Mbeki to Paris, France develops technical problems during its inaugural flight and had to turn back

The airline was established in 2003 and started operations on June 23, 2003 with an inaugural flight to Cancun, Mexico, from Madrid with a Boeing 747.

The inaugural flight took place on a Boeing 727 Avianca Company, commanded by Captain Alvaro Barrera Gómez.

* December 20, 2008 – Wake Forest defeats Navy 29 – 19 in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl, before a crowd of 28, 777, in the first bowl game to be played in Washington, D. C.

It won the TADS category at the inaugural 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition and was included on Activision's 1996 commercial release of Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom.

* March 16 – Belfast Harbour Airport in Northern Ireland is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.

Tall, thin and bespectacled, this character was an integral part of the stop-motion commercial and subsequent print ads produced for General Electric for the inaugural broadcast.

The ACRL quickly gained commercial success, announcing in February 2011, before it had even begun its inaugural season, that it has partnered with Adidas as its corporate sponsor.

Jannus was also the first airline pilot, having pioneered the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using heavier-than-air aircraft.

The inaugural event was a commercial and critical success, selling out within a week of the public announcement of ticket sales.

Also in 1957, Silver City completed its one-millionth Channel crossing since its inaugural Lympne — Le Touquet air ferry service took to the air in July 1948.

Following the inaugural TGV service between Paris and Lyon in 1981, the TGV network, centred on Paris, has expanded to connect cities across France and in adjacent countries.

Though not fully completed, it was brought to a playable stage by Easter 2010 and had its inaugural performance ( the Gloria of Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle ) at the Easter Vigil service on 3 April 2010.

A Bellanca CH-300, similar to the one which Inter-Island Airways used for its inaugural service

* Whicker's World-Aboard The Orient Express: Travel journalist Alan Whicker joined the inaugural service of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express to Venice in 1982, interviewing invited guests and celebrities along the way.

The second high-speed rail line ( Madrid to Barcelona ) was completed in 2007 with the inaugural service commencing at 6 am February 20, 2008.

Although ill, Cho continued to pastor the church, and on 15 October 1961 an inaugural service was held in the new auditorium that had been built on the plot of land the church had purchased at Seodaemun.

However, it was finally finished in 1973, and its inaugural worship service was held on 19 August of that year.

She was also named in 1842 as the inaugural president of the Ladies ' Relief Society of Nauvoo, a women's service organization.

Named after the Trinity River, which flows between Fort Worth and Dallas, the TRE was launched on December 30, 1996, shortly after the inaugural service of Dallas ' light rail system, operating from Union Station to the South Irving Station in Irving.

The Bishop of Stepney, Rt Rev Adrian Newman and Meg Hillier MP, together with Rev Graham Hunter, Vicar of St John's Hoxton and various other local clergy, were in attendance at Hoxton War Memorial's inaugural Armistice Day service on 11 November 2011.

Photograph of United Church inaugural service

On June 10, 1925, this building was used as the venue for the inaugural service of the United Church of Canada, which united the Presbyterians, the Methodist Church of Canada, and the Congregational Union of Canada.

Road House has been parodied by Michael J. Nelson as the inaugural track for Nelson's Rifftrax commentary service.

The inaugural football game in the stadium was held on Sept. 19, 2009 and a special military appreciation day celebration was held, complete with fireworks and a ceremony to honor past and present military service men and women.

After its inaugural run on Christmas Day, the Best Friend was used in regular passenger service along a six mile demonstration route in Charleston.

He established a systematic legal aid service for all courts, set up the Australian Law Reform Commission ( and appointed Michael Kirby to be its inaugural chairman ), the Australian Institute of Criminology and took the French Government to the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) to protest against its nuclear tests in the Pacific.

* 27 February-The government asks Aerlínte Éireann to postpone its inaugural transatlantic service due to high costs.