Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

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.

Originally the line was to extend to Kingsford but was finished at Bondi Junction due to a lack on money.

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

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

Kingsford was the site of a Ford Motor Company factory which built wooden station station wagon bodies beginning in 1931.

That charcoal operation was the foundation of the Kingsford Charcoal company.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On 2 January 1907 young Charles Kingsford Smith was rescued from certain drowning at Sydney's famous Bondi Beach by bathers who, just seven weeks later, were responsible for founding the world's first official surf life saving group at Bondi Beach on 21 February 1907, at a meeting held at the Royal Hotel Bondi Beach.

Kingsford Smith was twice married, first to Thelma Eileen Corboy ( 1901 – 1990 ) on 6 June 1923 at the Marble Bar Registrar's Office in Western Australia.

They had one son, Charles Arthur Kingsford Smith, who was born on 22 December 1932.

In August 1917, while serving with No. 23 Squadron, Kingsford Smith was shot down and received injuries which required amputation of a large part of his left foot.

As his recovery was predicted to be lengthy, Kingsford Smith was permitted to take leave in Australia where he visited his parents.

At 16, Kingsford Smith became an engineering apprentice with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.

He became a member of the Theosophical Society and associated with Dr. Anna Kingsford ( 1846-1888 ), one of the first female British physicians and supporter of women's rights, animal rights, vegetarianism and, who, besides being one of the pioneers of higher education for women, had become a student of Theosophy ; with her he brought out Keys of the Creeds ( 1875 ), The Perfect Way: or the Finding of Christ ( 1882 ), and founded the Hermetic Society in 1884.

Returning to England, Kingsford Smith was assigned to instructor duties and promoted to Captain.

On being demobilised in England, in early 1919, he joined Tasmanian Cyril Maddocks, to form Kingsford Smith, Maddocks Aeros Ltd., flying a joy-riding service mainly in the North of England, during the summer of 1919, initially using surplus DH. 6 trainers, then surplus B. E. 2s.

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.

* October 4 – 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, in a Percival Gull, sets a new solo flight record between England and Australia of 7 days 4 hours 44 minutes.

* Kingsford, Worcestershire in England

Shortly afterwards, Latham announced the recruitment of Peter Garrett, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation and former lead singer with the rock band Midnight Oil, as a Labor candidate in Kingsford Smith, a safe Sydney electorate being vacated by the retiring former minister Laurie Brereton.

* Kingsford Community School, an East London secondary school.

Drawing of Raymond of Tripoli's seal, from The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, by T. A. Archer and Charles Lethbridge Kingsford ( London & NY, 1894 ).

On 14 May 2010, Timms was approached by 21-year-old Roshonara Choudhry, during a constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe Library in Kingsford Way, Beckton, East London.

* Kingsford Community School, a secondary school in London

Kingsford was born in Maryland Point, Stratford, now part of east London but then in Essex, to John Bonus, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Schröder.

A drawing of Balian of Ibelin's seal, from The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, by T. A. Archer and Charles Lethbridge Kingsford ( London & NY, 1894 ).

* 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.

He renamed it KC Masterpiece and in 1986 he sold the sauce to the Kingsford division of Clorox.

* 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor ( d. 1888 )

* 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.

* September 16 – Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian ( d. 1888 )

On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzzafarpur, in order to kill the Chief Presidency Majistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but erroneously killed some women travelling in it.

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 three elementary schools in the area are Kingsford, Purcell, and Sikes.

Kingsford Smith, in his plane, the Southern Cross, also used the airfield on his historic flights across the Pacific.

Kingsford Heights is a town in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States.

Kingsford Heights is located at ( 41. 481237 ,-86. 692406 ).

The La Porte Community School Corporation consists of one high school: La Porte High School ; two middle schools: Boston Middle School and Kesling Middle School ; and eight elementary schools: Crichfield, Hailmann, Riley, Handley, Indian Trail, Kingsbury, Kingsford Heights and Lincoln.

* The cities of Iron Mountain and Kingsford are in the southwest of the township, but are administratively autonomous.

* East Kingsford is a part of the Kingsford urban area, located in the township just east of the city boundary at.

* Quinnesec is an unincorporated community, defined as a census-designated place in the township, just east of Kingsford and Iron Mountain.

It shares Woodward Avenue with the neighboring town, Kingsford.