Alcock - Brown Transatlantic Flight National Historic Event
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Plaque location
© Parks Canada Agency / Agence Parcs Canada, 2007 (Dan Pagé)
Address :
junction of Lemarchant Road and Patrick Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1950-05-31
Event, Person, Organization:
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John Alcock and Arthur Brown
(Person)
Other Name(s):
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Alcock - Brown Transatlantic Flight
(Designation Name)
Importance:
First non-stop transatlantic flight, 1919, Newfoundland to Ireland
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: junction of Lemarchant Road and Patrick Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
At 12:58 p.m. Newfoundland time on 14 June, 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown of the Royal Air Force took off from nearby Lester's Field in a Vickers Vimy biplane. Sixteen hours and twelve minutes later, having travelled 1800 miles, they landed at Clifden, Ireland, thus completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight.