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Midwest Connect

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{{Infobox Airline
| airline=Midwest Connect
| logo=MidwestConnectLogo.png
| logo_size=150
| fleet_size=13
| destinations=17
| parent=[[Republic Airways Holdings]]
| founded={{Start date and age|1994}}
[[Kearney, Nebraska|Kearney]], [[Nebraska]]
| ceased={{End date and age|2010|11|br=y}}<br/><small>(merged with [[Frontier Airlines]])</small>
| headquarters=[[Oak Creek, Wisconsin|Oak Creek]], [[Wisconsin]]
| key_people=Leo Malloy - President
| hubs=[[Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport|Milwaukee]]
| focus_cities=
| alliance=
| frequent_flyer=Midwest Miles
| website= http://www.midwestairlines.com
}}
'''Midwest Connect''' (formerly '''Midwest Express Connection''') was the brand name for the [[regional airline]] service of [[Midwest Airlines]], rather than a [[Operating certificate|certificated]] airline carrier. [[Skyway Airlines]] was the sole operator of Midwest Connect since its inception in 1989, until [[SkyWest Airlines]] began additional Midwest Connect service on April 1, 2007.<ref>{{cite press release| title=SkyWest, Inc. Adds New Partner and Additional Regional Jet Flyng | publisher=[[SkyWest, Inc.]] | date=2006-12-21 | accessdate=2007-03-13 | url=http://www.skywest.com/invest/investor_releases/2006/Dec/Midwest.pdf | format=PDF}}</ref> SkyWest took over all Midwest Connect operations following Skyway's shutdown of operations on April 5, 2008. In October, 2008, [[Republic Airlines]] also began operating for Midwest Connect.<ref name="SkywayYahoo">{{cite press release | url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=88626&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1097150&highlight= | title=Midwest Airlines to Transition Regional Operations to SkyWest; Reposition Skyway Airlines as Airport Services Function | date=2008-01-16 | accessdate=2008-03-19 | publisher=Midwest Air Group | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712230040/http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=88626&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1097150&highlight= | archive-date=2012-07-12 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.midwestairlines.com/Templates/ContentTwoColumn.aspx?id=929 | title=Midwest Airlines Announces Progress on Restructuring Plan | date=2008-09-03 | accessdate=2008-09-03 | publisher=Midwest Airlines }}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On November 3, 2009 the [[Embraer 170]] and [[Embraer 190]] operated by [[Republic Airlines]] were rebranded as Midwest Airlines operated by Republic Airlines. Later, during Midwest's merger with [[Frontier Airlines]] under the ownership of Republic, [[Chautauqua Airlines]] operated as Midwest Connect.

== Destinations ==
On January 16, 2008, Midwest Airlines announced that it would transition the operation of all Midwest Connect flights from Skyway Airlines to [[SkyWest Airlines]]. Skyway's last day of operations was April 5, 2008. Skyway Airlines continued in an airport services role, providing Ramp and Dining Services operations for Midwest Airlines and Midwest Connect, and Customer Service operations in Midwest Connect field stations.<ref name="SkywayYahoo"/>

== Fleet ==
[[File:Midwest Connect Canadair CRJ-200, N506CA@EWR,07.02.2008-499bp - Flickr - Aero Icarus.jpg|thumb|A Midwest Connect [[Bombardier CRJ200|CRJ200]] in the final livery]]
As of August 2009, the Midwest Connect fleet included 12 aircraft:<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/37143359.html | title=Midwest Connect overtakes Midwest Airlines | work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | date=2009-01-06 | accessdate=2009-07-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/06/08/daily46.html | title=SkyWest to wind down Midwest service | work=Milwaukee Business Journal | date=2009-06-10 | accessdate=2009-07-21}}</ref>
{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="margin:1em auto; border-collapse:collapse"
|+ '''Fleet currently branded as Midwest Connect'''
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|-
!rowspan="2"| Aircraft
!rowspan="2" style="width:25pt;"| In service
!colspan="3"| Passengers
!rowspan="2"| Routes
!rowspan="2"| Notes
|-
! <abbr title="Signature">F</abbr>
! <abbr title="Saver">Y</abbr>
! Total
|-
|[[Embraer ERJ 145 family|Embraer ERJ-135]]
|6
|—
|37
|37
|Domestic
|Operated by [[Chautauqua Airlines]]
|-
|[[Embraer ERJ 145 family|Embraer ERJ-145]]
|7
|—
|50
|50
|Domestic
|Operated by [[Chautauqua Airlines]]
|}

*All Midwest Connect aircraft feature leather seating, and jet aircraft feature freshly baked cookies on select routes.

== Retired fleet ==
[[File:Fairchild Dornier 328-310 328JET, Skyway Airlines (Midwest Express Connection) AN0174940.jpg|thumb|A Midwest Connect [[Fairchild Dornier 328JET|Dornier 328JET]] in the old Skyway livery]]

{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="margin:1em auto; border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=lightblue
!Aircraft
!Total
!Passengers<br>(Economy)
!Routes
!Operator
|-
|[[Beechcraft 1900]]
|align=center|4
|19
|Commuter
|[[Skyway Airlines]]
|-
|[[Fairchild-Dornier 328JET]]
|align=center|12
|32
|Commuter
|[[Skyway Airlines]]
|-
|[[Canadair Regional Jet 200]]
|align=center|12
|50
|Commuter
|[[SkyWest Airlines]]
|-
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of defunct airlines of the United States]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* [http://www.midwestairlines.com/MAWeb/aboutUs/connectProfile.aspx Midwest Connect profile]

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CSA Air

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{{Short description|Cargo airline}}
{{Distinguish|text = [[Czech Airlines]] (abbreviation: ČSA)}}
{{Infobox airline
| airline = CSA Air, Inc.
| logo = CSA Air Logo.png
| logo_size = 250
| fleet_size = 25
| destinations = 22
| IATA = -
| ICAO = IRO
| callsign = IRON AIR
| parent = Air T, Inc.
| founded = 1998
| headquarters = [[Kingsford, Michigan]], United States
| key_people =
| hubs = [[Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)|Iron Mountain]]
[[Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport|Milwaukee]]
| focus_cities =
| alliance =
| website = [http://www.csaair.com csaair.com]
}}

'''CSA Air''' is a [[cargo airline]] based in [[Kingsford, Michigan]], United States. It operates express cargo services in [[Michigan]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Indiana]], [[South Dakota]] and [[Maine]], operating 35 flights a day. Its main base is [[Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)|Ford Airport]] in [[Iron Mountain, Michigan]] and its [[air traffic control]] call sign Iron Air is derived from that city.<ref name="FI">{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= [[Flight International]] | page= 70 | date= 2007-04-03}}</ref> It exclusively serves as an affiliate of [[FedEx Feeder]], a regional service that operates as a subsidiary of [[FedEx Express]].

== History ==
The airline was established in 1998 and {{as of|2024|lc=yes}} is wholly owned by Air T, Inc.<ref name="FI"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://csaair.com/about/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=CSA Air |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Fleet ==
[[File:Cessna 208B Caravan 'N876FE' FedEx (13006463414).jpg|thumb|A FedEx Feeder Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster.]]
The CSA Air fleet consists of 25 [[Cessna 208 Caravan]]s.<ref name="FI"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Aircraft !! In fleet !! Orders
|-
| [[Cessna 208 Caravan]] || 25 || –
|-
|align=left|'''Total'''
|align=left|'''25'''
|align=left|'''–'''
|}

==Operations==

In the United States, [[FedEx Express]] operates [[FedEx Feeder]] on a [[dry lease]] program where the contractor will lease the aircraft from the FedEx fleet and provide a crew to operate the aircraft solely for FedEx. All of the feeder aircraft operated in the United States are owned by FedEx and because of this all of the aircraft are in the FedEx Feeder livery. Just like regional airlines, the contractor will operate the aircraft with their own flight number and call sign.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://csaair.com/ Official website]
* [https://www.airt.net/ Air T]

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[[Category:Airlines established in 1998]]
[[Category:Airlines based in Michigan]]
[[Category:1998 establishments in Michigan]]

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'''[[January 24]]'''

* [[2024 in aviation|2024]] - On 24 January 2024, at around 11:15 [[MSK]], a [[Russian Air Force]] [[Ilyushin Il-76]] military transport plane [[2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash|crashed]] near the Ukrainian border in Russia's [[Korochansky]] district in [[Belgorod Oblast]], killing everyone on board. Russia stated that the plane was shot down by Ukraine while it was carrying 65 Ukrainian [[prisoners of war]] (POWs) captured during the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]], as well as six crew members and three guards, and that the prisoners of war were to be [[prisoner exchange|exchanged in a swap]]. The [[General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces]] did not directly take responsibility for shooting down the airplane, but stated that it was a [[legitimate military target]] and that it was carrying [[S-300]] anti-aircraft missiles for [[bombing]] [[Kharkiv Oblast]].

* [[2013 in aviation|2013]] – Syrian Air Force jets bomb rebel-held areas in [[Darayya]] and [[Moadamiya]], Syria, and heavy fighting takes place near [[Damascus International Airport]] over control of the airport road.<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/24/syrian-jets-bomb-rebel-held-areas-near-damascus/ Surk, Barbara, "Syrian Jets Bomb Rebel-Held Areas Near Damascus," Associated Press, January 24, 2013.]</ref>

* [[2011 in aviation|2011]] – The 2011 Domodedovo Airport bombing was a suicide attack in the international arrival hall of Moscow’s busiest airport, Domodedovo Airport. The bombing killed at least 37 people and injured some 173, including 115 who had to be hospitalised.

* [[2011 in aviation|2011]] – [[Etihad Airways]] Flight 19, operated by [[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-600]] A6-EHH was escorted into [[Stansted Airport]],<ref name=AH436b22aa>{{cite web|url=http://avherald.com/h?article=436b22aa&opt=1|title=Incident: Etihad A346 near London on Jan 24th 2011, unruly passenger prompts fighter escort|first=Simon|last=Hradecky|publisher=Aviation Herald|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> United Kingdom by two [[Royal Air Force]] [[Eurofighter Typhoon|Typhoon]] aircraft from [[RAF Coningsby]]. The flight originated at [[Abu Dhabi International Airport]] and was bound for [[London Heathrow Airport]] when it was diverted due to an unruly passenger. The passenger was arrested after the aircraft had landed.<ref name=BBC12265647>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-12265647 |title=Man arrested at Stansted after aircraft incident|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=24 January 2011|date=24 January 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110125055421/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-12265647| archivedate= 25 January 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

* [[2010 in aviation|2010]] – [[Taban Air]] '''[[Taban Air Flight 6437|Flight 6437]]''' crashed on landing at [[Mashhad International Airport]] [[Iran]]. All 170 people on board escape from the burning aircraft.

* [[2010 in aviation|2010]] – A Finnish Air Force [[McDonnell-Douglas F-18 Hornet]] crashed in the south of the country. The fighter crashed in Juuapajoki, north of the southern city of Tampere at about 11:50 local time. The two pilots, who were on a routine training flight, ejected safely and were uninjured.

* [[2007 in aviation|2007]] – [[Air West Flight 612]] was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Air West between Khartoum, Sudan and Al-Fashir. With 103 people on board, the flight, operated by a Boeing 737, was hijacked shortly after takeoff by a male individual. The plane landed safely at N’Djamena, Chad, where the hijacker surrendered.

* [[2007 in aviation|2007]] – Ecuadorian Defence Minister Guadalupe Larriva, her 17-year-old daughter and five army officers are killed when two [[Aérospatiale SA.342L Gazelle]] military helicopters, EE-343 and EE-360, of Grupo Aéreo 43, collide near Manta Air Base at 2019 hrs. during night training.

* [[2003 in aviation|2003]] – [[Department of Homeland Security]] created.

* [[2003 in aviation|2003]] – Death of Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout, American early aviator, first Woman to set the first non-refueling endurance record for women.

* [[1991 in aviation|1991]] – Iraqi ground fire shoots down another RAF Tornado, over Basrah, Iraq. Flying an F-15 C Eagle, Royal Saudi Air Force Captain Ayedh al-Shamrani, using AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, shoots down two Iraqi Air Force Mirage F1 jets as they approach British Royal Navy ships in the Persian Gulf. U. S. Navy aircraft attack Iraqi Navy ships; A-6 Es sink a Zhuk-class patrol boat and Spasilac-class minelayer and cause a minesweeper taking evasive action to strike an Iraqi mine and sink, and a force of A-6 Es and F/A-18 Hornets hit four ships in an attack on Umm Qasr naval base. U. S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell announces that during the first week of air attacks on Iraq, Coalition air forces have flown more than 10,000 sorties, knocked out 61 of Iraq’s 66 airfields, and shot down 19 Iraqi aircraft in air-to-air-combat, losing 16 of their own number – All to ground fire.

* [[1991 in aviation|1991]] – CF-18's flew their first mission over Iraq.

* [[1991 in aviation|1991]] – LTV A-7E Corsair II, BuNo 158830, 'AC 403', of [[VA-72]] has the dubious distinction of being the last of the type in US Navy service to need a barricade landing aboard a carrier when the nose gear was damaged on catapult launch from the CV67 USS John F. Kennedy, at start of mission 12.41 against a target in western Iraq, losing a tire of the front mount on his cat shot. Pilot, Lt. Tom Dostie succeeds in landing in the barricade also known as the net or 5th wire. Since the A-7 type was about to be retired, airframe is stripped for parts and buried at sea 25 January with full military honors, but refuses to sink due to fuel bags in the wings were not salvageable and not removed. Marines aboard CV67 JFK used it for target practice (Video of Lt. Dostie's catching the net as well as the Marines using it for target practice can be seen on linked video. At 17:00 mins into video it shows Lt. Dostie landing in the net and then later on in the video compilation it shows the Marines shooting at and sinking 403 with 50 cals after it's craned off the port side.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNOyd-_W_uU

* [[1990 in aviation|1990]] – Launch of The Hiten Spacecraft, English name 'Celestial Maiden' and known before launch as MUSES-A (Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft A), Japanese first lunar probe.

* [[1986 in aviation|1986]] – [[Voyager 2]], NASA space probe, passes within 81,500 km (50,600 mi) of Uranus.

* [[1986 in aviation|1986]] – The American spacecraft Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Uranus, passing within 50,600 miles.

* [[1985 in aviation|1985]] – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery [[STS-51-C]] at 9:50:00 UTC. Mission highlights: First classified Department of Defense (DoD) mission; Magnum satellite deployment.

* [[1978 in aviation|1978]] – Soviet satellite [[Kosmos 954]], with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth’s atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada’s Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

* [[1977 in aviation|1977]] – Death of Andrew Henry Humphrey GCB, OBE, DFC, AFC, RAF, British WWII pilot and Marshal of the Royal Air Force, who set some records with the English Electric Canberrea B2 ‘Aries IV’.

* [[1975 in aviation|1975]] – [[Salyut 3]], Soviet space station, is back on earth.

* [[1975 in aviation|1975]] – First flight of the [[Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin]] (Aérospatiale SA-365 C ‘Dauphin’ 2), a medium-weight multipurpose helicopter.

* [[1974 in aviation|1974]] – Togolese Air Force [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]], 5V-MAG, crashes during approach near the village of Sarakawa, northern Togo, killing several high-ranking military personnel. The President of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma (1935–2005) is the sole survivor.[360]

* [[1971 in aviation|1971]] – Death of Ferdinand von Hiddessen, German WWI pilot and politician, first German to bomb Paris in WWI.

* [[1966 in aviation|1966]] – [[Operation Masher]], later renamed [[Operation White Wing]], a helicopter and ground assault by the U. S. Army's First Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and South Vietnamese Army and South Korean Army units, begins against North Vietnamese Army forces in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam. The operation concludes on March 6.

* [[1966 in aviation|1966]] – [[Air India Flight 101]], a [[Boeing 707]]-437, crashes into the south west face of Mont Blanc in France; all 106 passengers and 11 crew are killed. Sixteen years earlier [[Air India Flight 245]] had crashed in almost exactly the same spot.

* [[1966 in aviation|1966]] – First flight of the [[Learjet 24]], an American six to eight seat (two crew and four to six passengers) twin-engined, high speed business jet.

* [[1963 in aviation|1963]] – A USAF [[Boeing B-52G Stratofortress]] on a training mission out of [[Westover Air Force Base]], Massachusetts, lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting during low-level flight, and crashed on the west side of Elephant Mountain near Greenville, Maine. Of the nine crewmen aboard, two survived the crash.

* [[1962 in aviation|1962]] – Two [[United States Navy|US Navy]] [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]]s are seconded to the US Air Force as the air force plans to adopt the type.

* [[1961 in aviation|1961]] – First flight of the [[Convair 990 Coronado]], an American narrowbody jet airliner, “stretched” version of their earlier Convair 880.

* [[1961 in aviation|1961]] – The [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash]]: A United States Air Force [[Boeing B-52G Stratofortress]] carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs breaks up in mid-air over Greensboro, North Carolina, and crashes, killing three of its eight-man crew. The bombs do not arm themselves and are recovered.

* [[1957 in aviation|1957]] – Death of [[Georg Weiner]], German WWI flying ace, author of children’s books, probably best remembered for the creation of "Biggles", the fictional WWI hero. He also was a High-ranking officer in WWII.

* [[1952 in aviation|1952]] – Birth of William Francis Readdy, USN Test pilot and NASA Astronaut.

* [[1952 in aviation|1952]] – [[Grumman SA-16A Albatross]], 51-001, c/n G-74, of the 580th Air Resupply Squadron (described as a Central Intelligence Agency air unit), on cross-country flight from [[Mountain Home AFB]], Idaho, to San Diego, California, suffers failure of port engine over Death Valley, crew of six successfully bails out at ~1830 hrs. with no injuries, walks S some 14 miles to Furnace Creek, California where they are picked up the following day by an SA-16 from the 42nd Air Rescue Squadron, [[March AFB]], California. The abandoned SA-16 crashes into Towne Summit mountain ridge of the Panamint Range W of Stovepipe Wells with starboard engine still running. Wreckage is still there.

* [[1950 in aviation|1950]] – First flight of the [[Nord 1601]], a French aerodynamic research aircraft designed to investigate the aerodynamics of swept wings and related high-lift devices.

* [[1950 in aviation|1950]] – First flight of the [[North American YF-93]], an American jet fighter prototype, development of the F-86 Sabre.

* [[1945 in aviation|1945]] – Twentieth Air Force [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress]]es bomb Iwo Jima.

* [[1944 in aviation|1944]] – German raids of 15, 43, and 52 aircraft strike Allied ships off Anzio, damaging an American destroyer and minesweeper and sinking a British hospital ship.

* [[1943 in aviation|1943]] – (24-25) German aircraft attack Convoy JW-52 while it is en route the Kola Inlet in the Soviet Union via the Barents Sea but cause no damage.

* [[1942 in aviation|1942]] – The Japanese aircraft carriers Hiryū and Sōryū begin strikes on Ambon.

* [[1938 in aviation|1938]] – First flight of the [[Armstrong Whitworth Ensign]], a British 40 seat four-engine airliner.

* [[1936 in aviation|1936]] – Prototype [[Junkers Ju 87 V1]], Werk Nr. 4921, fitted with a pair of vertical fins, suffers tail section [[Aeroelastic flutter#Flutter|oscillation]] during medium-angle test dive, loses starboard fin during attempted recovery, goes into inverted spin, crashes at [[Dessau, Germany]]. Wilhelm ‘Willy’ Neuenhofen, German WWI fighter ace, Junker’s Chief test pilot, was killed

* [[1932 in aviation|1932]] – French pilots Paul Codos and Henri Robida land in Paris after flying from Hanoi in French Indochina in a record time of 3 days 4 hours.

* [[1929 in aviation|1929]] – Surplus [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a]], (original serial unknown), presented to ''Aviación Naval'' (Argentine Naval arm), ''E-11/AC-21'', written-off in crash landing at [[Campo Sarmiento]], Base Naval [[Puerto Belgrano]], [[Argentina]] when pilot Alferez de Fragata Alberto Sautu Riestra approaches field too flat and lands short, collapsing undercarriage. Pilot uninjured. As the airframe was an obsolescent one-only on strength design, with no supporting plans or parts, it is scrapped.

* [[1929 in aviation|1929]] – First flight of the [[Blériot 111]], a French single engine, low wing monoplane transport prototype.

* [[1925 in aviation|1925]] – Total eclipse of the sun photographed near Toronto from [[Avro 504]] flown by F/L G. E. Brookes and F/O A. L. Moore. Photos published in Toronto Daily Star.

* [[1920 in aviation|1920]] – First aircraft flight across the Sahara Desert is flown by French [[Joseph Vuillemin]] of the Aéronautique Militaire.

* [[1920 in aviation|1920]] – First Canadian private pilot’s license was issued to James Stanley Scott, Ottawa, Ontario.

* [[1919 in aviation|1919]] – Army Air Service pilot first Lt. Temple M. Joyce makes 300 consecutive loops in a Morane fighter at Issoudun, France.

* [[1919 in aviation|1919]] – Death of Cecil Frederick King, British WWI fighter ace, killed in a midair collision while serving as a combat instructor.

* [[1918 in aviation|1918]] – Death of Harry Gosford Reeves, British WWI fighter ace, killed in a crash while performing an engine test on a Nieuport 27.

* [[1917 in aviation|1917]] – Death of Leopold Rudolf Reimann, German WWI flying ace, killed in a flying accident at Jastaschule near Valenciennes when the wings of his [[Albatros D.III]] collapsed.

* [[1913 in aviation|1913]] – Death of Charles de Nié Port (Nieuport), French aircraft designer and pilot, co-founder with his brother Edouard of the eponymous Nieuport aircraft manufacturing company, Société Anonyme Des Établissements Nieuport in a flying accident at Étampes in France, when their wing-warping device failed.

* [[1913 in aviation|1913]] – Swiss pilot [[Oskar Bider]] reaches 11,483 feet when he flies over the Pyrénées from Pau to Madrid in his [[Blériot XI]] monoplane.

* [[1900 in aviation|1900]] – Birth of Lowell R. Bayles, American air racer.

* [[1899]] – Birth of [[Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg]], American pilot, High-ranking officer in WWII, U. S. Air Force general, second Chief of Staff and second Director of Central Intelligence.

* [[1897]] – Birth of Malcolm Plaw MacLeod, Canadian WWI flying ace who also served during WWII.

* [[1897]] – Birth of Eric Bourne Coulter Betts, Irish WWI flying ace.

* [[1896]] – Birth of George Owen Johnson, Canadian WWI flying ace, raid pilot who remained in the RCAF until the end of WWII.

* [[1895]] – Birth of Richard Michael Trevethan, American born British WWI flying ace.

* [[1895]] – Birth of Gilbert Ware Murlis Green, British WWI flying ace who served on many theaters, commanded two of the original night fighter squadrons and shot down the first German airplane at night over Britain.

* [[1895]] – Birth of Marcel Joseph Maurice Nogues, French WWI fighter ace and balloon buster.

* [[1893]] – Birth of Marcel Marc Dhôme, French WWI flying ace, racing car driver, who also served in WWII and during the Korean war.

* [[1888]] – Birth of Dr. [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer and manufacturer.

* [[1887]] – Birth of Paul Wenzel, German WWI flying ace.

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

Irene di Spilimbergo

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{{Short description|Italian painter (1538–1559)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Irene di Spilimbergo
| image = Irene di Spilimbergo A35154.jpg
| caption = Painting by Gian Paolo Pace, a follower of [[Titian]], {{circa|1560}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1538|10|17}}
| birth_place = [[Spilimbergo]], Republic of Venice
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1559|12|17|1538|10|17}}
| death_place = [[Venice]], Republic of Venice
}}

'''Irene di Spilimbergo''' (17 October 1538 - 17 December 1559)<ref>Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical Dictionary of Italians), Edited by Treccani, Vol. 93, 2018.</ref> was an [[Italian Renaissance painter]] and poet.

==Biography==
She is mostly known for an effusive volume of poetic elegies published two years after her death by [[Dionigi Atanagi]] and containing 279 Italian and 102 Latin poems, some anonymous, and others either penned or attributed to contemporary cultural figures including [[Lodovico Dolce]], [[Torquato Tasso]], [[Titian]], [[Girolamo Muzio]], [[Luigi Tanzillo]], [[Giuseppe Bettusi]], and [[Benedetto Varchi]].

Born in [[Spilimbergo]] (in the [[province of Pordenone]]), a small town about thirty kilometers northwest of [[Udine]], by report she demonstrated her artistic abilities at a young age. She is compared sometimes with another woman painter, [[Sofonisba Anguissola]] (born in [[Cremona]] and of greater longevity (1532–1625). Irene studied under Titian for two years. Few if any of her works are known. Her true nature and skills are difficult to sift from the poetic legend; she was for her eulogists the equivalent of the prototypical ever-innocent feminine charm, what ''Beatrice'' was to [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] and ''Laura'' to [[Petrarch]], although girded with a paint-brush for the craft-oriented Renaissance.

The ''[[National Gallery of Art]]'' ([[Washington, D.C.]]) houses two paintings in relation to her: a portrait of her sister ''Emilia di Spilimbergo'', with a landscape background, has been attributed to Gian Paolo Pace, a follower of Titian, and a pendant portrait of ''Irene di Spilimbergo'' is thought to be by Gian Paolo Pace and Titian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.49427.html|title=Portraits attributed to Gian Paolo Pace, National Gallery of Washington D.C.|access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref>

She died in [[Venice]] at the age of 21.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311000757/http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0805/T080582.asp ArtNet biography] via the Internet Archive
* ''Irene di Spilimbergo: The Image of a Creative Woman in Late Renaissance Italy'', Anne Jacobson Schutte, ''Renaissance Quarterly,'' Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 42–61
* Jacobs, Fredrika Herman. ''Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism''. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
* Schutte, Anne Jacobson. "Commemorators of Irene Di Spilimbergo." ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 45, no. 3 (1992): 524-36.

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