Editing Transatlantic flight (section)

===1920s===
; First flight across the South Atlantic: {{main|First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic}} On 30 March–17 June 1922, Lieutenant Commander [[Sacadura Cabral]] and Commander [[Gago Coutinho]] of Portugal, using three [[Fairey III]]D floatplanes (''Lusitania'', ''Portugal'', and ''Santa Cruz''), after two ditchings, with only internal means of navigation (the Coutinho-invented sextant with artificial horizon) from Lisbon, Portugal, to [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].<ref>[http://honeymooney.com/brazil/coutinho_cabral_summary.htm "1Coutinho and Cabral 1922 Summary."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509092101/http://honeymooney.com/brazil/coutinho_cabral_summary.htm |date=9 May 2006 }} ''Honeymooney.com.'' Retrieved: 23 September 2011.</ref>

; First non-stop aircraft flight between European and American mainlands: On 12 October 1924, the [[Zeppelin]] ''[[USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|LZ-126]]'' (later known as ''ZR-3'' ''USS Los Angeles''), began an 81-hour flight from Germany to [[New Jersey]] with a crew commanded by Dr. [[Hugo Eckener]], covering a distance of {{convert|4867|smi|km}}.<ref>Althoff, William F. ''USS Los Angeles: The Navy's venerable Airship and Aviation Technology.'' Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's Inc., 2003. {{ISBN|1-57488-620-7}}.</ref>

; First night-time flight across the Atlantic: On the night of 16–17 April 1927, the Portuguese aviators Sarmento de Beires, Jorge de Castilho and Manuel Gouveia, flew from the Bijagós islands, Portuguese Guinea to Fernando de Noronha island, Brazil in the Dornier Wal flying boat ''Argos''.

; First flight across the South Atlantic made by a non-European crew: On 28 April 1927, Brazilian [[João Ribeiro de Barros]], with the assistance of João Negrão (co-pilot), Newton Braga (navigator), and Vasco Cinquini (mechanic), crossed the Atlantic in the hydroplane ''Jahú''. The four aviators flew from [[Genoa]], in [[Italy]], to [[Santo Amaro (São Paulo)]], making stops in Spain, [[Gibraltar]], [[Cape Verde]] and [[Fernando de Noronha]], in the Brazilian territory.

; Disappearance of [[The White Bird|''L'Oiseau Blanc'']]: On 8–9 May 1927, [[Charles Nungesser]] and [[François Coli]] attempted to cross the Atlantic from Paris to the US in a [[Pierre Levasseur (aircraft builder)|Levasseur]] [[Levasseur PL.8|PL-8]] biplane ''L'Oiseau Blanc'' ("The White Bird"), but were lost.

; First solo transatlantic flight and first non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and mainland Europe: On 20–21 May 1927, [[Charles A. Lindbergh]] flew his [[Ryan Aeronautical Company|Ryan]] [[monoplane]] (named ''[[Spirit of St. Louis]]''), {{convert|3600|nmi|km}}, from [[Roosevelt Field, New York]] to [[Paris–Le Bourget Airport]], in 33½ hours.
; First transatlantic air passenger: On 4–6 June 1927, the first transatlantic air passenger was [[Charles A. Levine]]. He was carried as a passenger by [[Clarence D. Chamberlin]] from [[Roosevelt Field, New York]], to [[Eisleben]], Germany, in a Wright-powered [[Bellanca]].
; First non-stop air crossing of the South Atlantic: On 14–15 October 1927, [[Dieudonne Costes]] and [[Joseph Le Brix]], flying a [[Breguet 19]], flew from [[Senegal]] to [[Brazil]].
; First non-stop fixed-wing aircraft westbound flight over the North Atlantic: On 12–13 April 1928, [[Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld]] and Capt. [[Hermann Köhl]] of Germany and Comdr. [[James Fitzmaurice (pilot)|James Fitzmaurice]] of Ireland, flew a [[Junkers W33]] monoplane (named [[Bremen (aircraft)|''Bremen'']]), {{convert|2070|smi|km}}, from Baldonnell near [[Dublin]], Ireland, to [[Labrador]], in 36½ hours.<ref>Wagner, Wolfgang. ''Hugo Junkers: Pionier der Luftfahrt'' (Die deutsche: German). Bonn: Luftfahrt Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1996. {{ISBN|3-7637-6112-8}}.</ref>

; First crossing of the Atlantic by a woman: On 17–18 June 1928, [[Amelia Earhart]] was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air with pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot/mechanic Louis Gordon.

; Notable flight ([[circumnavigation|around the world]]): On 1–8 August 1929, in making the circumnavigation, Dr Hugo Eckener piloted the [[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|LZ 127 ''Graf Zeppelin'']] across the Atlantic three times: from Germany {{convert|4391|smi|km}} east to west in four days from 1 August; return {{convert|4391|smi|km}} west to east in two days from 8 August; after completing the circumnavigation to [[Lakehurst, New Jersey|Lakehurst]], a final {{convert|4391|smi|km}} west to east landing 4 September, making three crossings in 34 days.<ref>[http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/rtw001j.htm "Round the World Flights."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608221926/http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/rtw001j.htm |date=8 June 2008 }} ''Wingnet.org.'' Retrieved: 23 September 2011.</ref>