A couple of weeks ago I listened to a podcast that happened to be the 100th episode of that particular aviation podcast. The speakers on the podcast related some of their 100th aviation events – their 100th flight, 100th hour of cross-country flying, etc.
That got me thinking about those events in my flight career. Most of them happened a while ago, so I dug out my logbooks and looked them up. Believe it or not, I still have the original logbook that recorded my first training flight in August of 1968 – while I was still a cadet at the USAF Academy. My how time flies…
Here are the ones I could think of and then find in my logbooks:
100th Aviation Event
Event | Date | Aircraft | Flight |
---|---|---|---|
100th Flight | December 1969 | Cessna T-37B | USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) – Instrument Training |
100th Flight Hour | December 1969 | Cessna T-37B | USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training Student |
100th Landing | October 1969 | Cessna T-37B | USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training Student |
100th Flight Hour as PIC | Feb 1971 | Fairchild C-123K | Tan Son Nhut AB to Bien Hoa AB to Binh Thuy AB to Tan Son Nhut AB, RVN |
100th Hour of Flight Instruction Received | January 1970 | Cessna T-37B | Webb AFB, TX to Tinker AFB, OK – Navigation/Cross-Country Instruction |
100th Flight Hour of Flight Instruction Given | July 1972 | Cessna T-37B | Instructor Pilot USAF UPT, Basic VFR Training Flight – Traffic Patterns |
100th Flight Hour – Simulated Instrument (Hood) | March 1974 | Cessna T-37B | Webb AFB, TX – Instrument Currency Flight with Safety Pilot |
100th Simulator Training Hour | February 1982 | Lockeed C-5A | Travis AFB, CA – Instrument Currency |
100th Flight Hour – Actual Instrument | July 1982 | Lockheed C-5A | Clark AB, Philippines to Diego Garcia, BIOT |
100th Instrument Approach Flown | March 1972 | Cessna T-37B | Randolph AFB, San Antonio, TX – Student, USAF Pilot Instructor Training |
100th Combat Flight Hour | March 1971 | Fairchild C-123K | Tan Son Nhut Air Base (AB), Republic of Viet Nam (RVN) |
100th Flight Hour – Cross Country | February 1971 | Fairchild C-123K | Tan Son Nhut AB to Bien Hoa AB to Nha Trang AB to Tan Son Nhut AB, RVN |
100th Flight Hour – Night | September 1981 | Lockheed C-5A | Diego Garcia AB, BIOT to Clark AB, Phillipines |
100th Flight Hour – Solo | November 1974 | Temco Swift GC-1B | Howard County Airport, TX (Big Spring, TX) – Local Area Flight |
100th Flight Hour – Temco Swift | September 1973 | Temco Swift GC-1B | Ector County, Odessa, TX to Howard County, Big Spring, TX |
100th Hour in current aircraft (Temco Swift, GC-1B) | September 2012 | Temco Swift GC-1B | Minden, NV to Reno-Stead, NV – 2-ship Formation |
BONUS: 10,000th Flight Hour | April 2009 | Boeing B-747-400 | Nagoya, Japan to Detroit, MI |