Join us for the 5th Firefly adventure across the Atlantic as we commemorate the legendary flight of The Bremen – 97 years to the day after it happened!
In 1928, three brave aviators – Captain Hermann Köhl, Commandant James Fitzmaurice, and Baron Günther von Hünefeld – took to the skies in a rugged Junkers W33 aircraft named The Bremen. Departing from Baldonnel Aerodrome in Ireland, they battled fierce storms, compass failures, fuel uncertainty, and navigational chaos for 36 gruelling hours before finally touching down on the icy bogs of Greenly Island, Canada.
It was the first-ever east-to-west transatlantic flight in a fixed-wing aircraft, and it changed aviation history forever.
**Route: **
We’ll follow the Irish Air Corps 75th Anniversary flight from 2003
EIME (Baldonnel, Ireland) BIKF (Keflavik, Iceland) BGGH (Nuuk, Greenland) CYYR (Goose Bay, Canada) Low pass over Greenly Island Lighthouse before landing CYBX (Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon, Canada)
**Aircraft: **
I will be taking the powerful A400M by iniBuilds, a modern tribute to the endurance and strength of the Bremen’s original Junkers W33. Bring any aircraft suitable for the long haul—just bring plenty of fuel!
Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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26JUN25 1119Z | BIKF | BGGH | ISidiou5 | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -179 ft/m | 796 nm | 03:00 | View | |
24JUN25 0237Z | BIKF | BGGH | Davi Pereira | Boeing 737 MAX 8 (B38M) | -215 ft/m | 776 nm | 02:25 | View | |
21MAY25 1850Z | BIKF | BGGH | BelBro | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -281 ft/m | 814 nm | 02:06 | View | |
21APR25 1550Z | BIKF | BGGH | Pappa_Razzi | Airbus A321 (A321) | -249 ft/m | 925 nm | 02:19 | View | |
17APR25 1840Z | BIKF | BGGH | Mihtsuki | Fokker F-28 Fellowship (F28) | -176 ft/m | 1071 nm | 02:43 | View | |
16APR25 0958Z | BIKF | BGGH | ZandPilooT | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -561 ft/m | 782 nm | 01:14 | View | |
16APR25 0239Z | BIKF | BGGH | Aaron Priest | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -115 ft/m | 816 nm | 00:56 | View | |
14APR25 1109Z | BIKF | BGGH | Restoring 226 | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -100 ft/m | 768 nm | 02:01 | View | |
13APR25 1438Z | BIKF | BGGH | Andybrwn7 | Airbus A319 (A319) | -488 ft/m | 868 nm | 02:13 | View | |
13APR25 1247Z | BIKF | BGGH | Ironbird | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -220 ft/m | 1030 nm | 02:24 | View | |
13APR25 0805Z | BIKF | BGGH | 6 Knots (Ciaran) | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -275 ft/m | 758 nm | 01:43 | View | |
13APR25 0759Z | BIKF | BGGH | Shaun Dale | Unknown/Generic Undesignated (ZZZZ) | -183 ft/m | 816 nm | 01:57 | View | |
12APR25 2308Z | BIKF | BGGH | SiRuS_T | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -551 ft/m | 830 nm | 02:26 | View | |
12APR25 2303Z | BIKF | BGGH | Twotonemurphy | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -181 ft/m | 821 nm | 02:18 | View | |
12APR25 2257Z | BIKF | BGGH | Ticiba Tom | Airbus A330-300 (A333) | -108 ft/m | 826 nm | 02:10 | View | |
12APR25 2256Z | BIKF | BGGH | Cyulator | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -356 ft/m | 825 nm | 02:13 | View | |
12APR25 2254Z | BIKF | BGGH | SoaringAJ | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -15 ft/m | 807 nm | 02:33 | View | |
12APR25 2254Z | BIKF | BGGH | Ryan Newby | Airbus A321 (A321) | -235 ft/m | 827 nm | 01:58 | View | |
12APR25 2252Z | BIKF | BGGH | Simon Murray | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -410 ft/m | 823 nm | 02:06 | View | |
12APR25 2252Z | BIKF | BGGH | musefan | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -504 ft/m | 822 nm | 02:07 | View |
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