Who flew first across the Pacific Ocean?

The first transpacific flight was made by Australian Fokker F.VIIb/3m "Southern Cross" (VH-USU) flown by Charles Kingford Smith and Charles Ulm. On 31 May 1928, the crew, Australian pilot Charles Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Charles Ulm, and Americans Harry Lyon (navigator) and James Warner (radio operator) took off from Oakland, California, United States. The Southern Cross stopped for rest and refuelling in Honolulu, Hawaii before setting off for Fiji. This leg of the journey took 34+1⁄2 hours of flight across open seas before gliding past the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, where a large and enthusiastic crowd saw the first aircraft to land in Fiji touch down at Albert Park.

The Southern Cross landed at Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 9 June, where a crowd of 25,000 people were waiting to greet the Southern Cross on its arrival at the airport. The Southern Cross flew on to Sydney the following day (10 June).

Southern Cross is today a museum piece at The Kingsford Smith Memorial near Brisbane Airport.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown were the first to fly non-stop over the Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo over the Atlantic. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic.