* 1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot ( d. 1935 )

* 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

After primary education at Glebe Public School, Askin was awarded a bursary to study at Sydney Technical High School, where he sat in the same class as the future aviator Charles Kingsford Smith.

* Southern Cross ( aircraft ), the Fokker F. VIIB / 3m flown by pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.

On May 31, 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew departed Oakland in Southern Cross on their successful bid to cross the Pacific by air, finishing in Australia.

The first successful flight over the sea was accomplished by Charles Kingsford Smith later that year.

* Charles Kingsford Smith, who beat Hinkler's record ;

He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004.

In June 2004, Labor leader Mark Latham announced that Garrett would become an Australian Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, in the safe New South Wales seat of Kingsford Smith which was being vacated by the former Cabinet minister Laurie Brereton.

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Australian Charles Kingsford Smith was the first to fly across the larger Pacific Ocean in the Southern Cross.

On arrival, Kingsford Smith was met by a huge crowd of 25, 000 at Eagle Farm Airport in his hometown of Brisbane.

A week after they landed, Kingsford Smith and Ulm recorded a disc for Columbia talking about their trip.

With Ulm, Kingsford Smith later continued his journey being the first in 1929 to circumnavigate the world, crossing the equator twice.

* Listen to songs inspired by, and recordings of, famous aviators including Charles Kingsford Smith, Amy Johnson and Bert Hinkler talking about their journeys on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's website: ' Our Heroes of the Air '

With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.

Maintaining her interest in politics, Wake was endorsed as a Liberal candidate at the 1966 federal election for the Sydney seat of Kingsford Smith.

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Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC ( 9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935 ), often called by his nickname Smithy, was an early Australian aviator.

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton ( a suburb of Brisbane ), Queensland, Australia, and was the youngest of seven children of William Charles Smith ( 1852 – 1930 ), a bank manager, and Catherine Mary Kingsford ( 1857 – 1938 ), daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

During the First World War, Ken Richards had been the observer in Kingsford Smith's plane in France.

Kingsford Smith owned an old Avro plane and in 1922 flew to Cowra to see his old comrade.

Two men ( both old friends of Kingsford Smith ) — Keith Vincent Anderson and Henry Smith ' Bobby ' Hitchcock, in their Westland Widgeon plane named Kookaburra — crash landed in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia and died of thirst and exposure on 12 April 1929 while on their way to help with the search.

Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £ 3000 so it could be put on permanent display for the public.

In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith's plane, the Southern Cross, crossed the coast over Ballina after its epic journey across the Pacific Ocean.

While the New Zealand Air Force overhauled the Southern Cross free of charge Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm were taken on a triumphant tour of New Zealand, flying in Bristol Fighters.

On 31 March 1929, en route from Sydney to England, the Southern Cross with Kingsford Smith at the helm made an emergency landing on a mudflat near the mouth of the Glenelg River, in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge were flying the Lady Southern Cross overnight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore, as part of their attempt to break the England-Australia speed record held by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of 8 November 1935.

The Kingsford Smith Memorial, Brisbane, housing the Southern Cross ( aircraft ) | Southern CrossThe major airport of Sydney, located in the suburb of Mascot was named Kingsford Smith International Airport in his honour.

His most famous aircraft, the Southern Cross, is now preserved and displayed in a purpose-built memorial to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith near the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport.

Another Kingsford Smith Drive, which is located in the Canberra district of Belconnen, intersects with Southern Cross Drive.

* Charles Kingsford Smith ( includes photos of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane, the Southern Cross )

* Austin Byrne and the Kingsford Smith Southern Cross Memorial

* National Museum of Australia: A fragment of wooden propeller from the Southern Cross, flown by Charles Kingsford Smith in the 1920s and 30s, which was taken into space by Andy Thomas in 2001 to honour Kingsford Smith's aviation achievements.

* November 8-Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Tommy Pethybridge in the Lady Southern Cross disappear over the Andaman Sea, never to be seen again.

* October 20-November 3-Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from Brisbane, Australia to San Francisco, California, in the Lady Southern Cross.

* June 9 – Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew make the first flight across the Pacific Ocean in the Fokker F. VIIb-3m Southern Cross.

Though she was a gifted pianist, at the age of 18 she wanted to become a pilot, inspired by the Australian Charles Kingsford Smith, who took her for a flight in his Southern Cross.

The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century Chertsey Cartulary, the journal of James Cook on the HM Bark Endeavour, inscribed on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, the diaries of Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills from the Burke and Wills expedition, and Charles Kingsford Smith's and Charles Ulm's log of the Southern Cross.

This involved the earlier route used towards Bondi Junction through Woolloomooloo, then an extension towards Kingsford with five extra stations at Charing Cross, Frenchmans Road, Randwick, University and Kingsford.