This Day in FAA History: November 29th

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19291129: Richard E. Byrd, with pilot Bernt Balchen and two other crew members, became the first to fly over the South Pole, operating a Ford Trimotor from the U.S. base at Little America. Earlier, on May 9, 1926, Byrd and Floyd Bennett had made a flight credited as the first over the North Pole, in a Fokker F.VII.
19351129: Pan American Airway’s China Clipper made the first transpacific airmail flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila. (See October 21, 1936.)
19661129: The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) board of directors adopted an article to its constitution and by-laws providing that all future turbine-powered transports (excluding ‘stretch’ models of the turbine-powered, twin-engine aircraft presently certificated) be manned by a minimum crew of three pilots. On June 29, 1967, ALPA formally proposed to FAA’s Western Region, and to the FAA Administrator on August 8, 1967, that a three-man crew be incorporated in the 737 cockpit, then under development. (See April 21, 1965 and July 25, 1967.)
20111129: FAA dedicated the new environmental modeling lab at its Washington, DC, headquarters. The facility allowed FAA to develop and use the tools necessary to assess aviation environmental impacts and advise policy and regulatory decision-making processes, both domestically and internationally.
20111129: AMR, the parent company of American Airlines filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. (See February 13, 2013.)
20131129: Evergreen International Airlines, Inc., a cargo airline based in McMinnville, Oregon, ceased operations because of financial difficulties. The airline flew its final flight on December 2, from Travis Air Force Base in California to Victorville, California.
20211129: Vietnam Airlines inaugurated the first non-stop passenger service from the United States to Vietnam on a flight from San Francisco International Airport to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Min City. (See February 14, 2019.)