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!
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Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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26JUN25 1520Z | CYYR | CYBX | ISidiou5 | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -180 ft/m | 196 nm | 00:49 | View | |
21APR25 1814Z | BGGH | CYYR | Pappa_Razzi | Learjet 35 (LJ35) | -108 ft/m | 722 nm | 02:02 | View | |
18APR25 1119Z | CYYR | CYBX | Mihtsuki | Fokker F-28 Fellowship (F28) | -360 ft/m | 202 nm | 00:44 | View | |
16APR25 2218Z | CYYR | CYBX | ZandPilooT | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -542 ft/m | 206 nm | 00:31 | View | |
16APR25 1657Z | CYYR | CYBX | 6 Knots (Ciaran) | Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) | -96 ft/m | 164 nm | 00:46 | View | |
16APR25 0239Z | BIKF | BGGH | Aaron Priest | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -115 ft/m | 816 nm | 00:56 | View | |
15APR25 1341Z | CYYR | CYBX | Restoring 226 | Piper Malibu Meridian (P46T) | -417 ft/m | 172 nm | 00:55 | View | |
13APR25 2007Z | CYYR | CYBX | Andybrwn7 | Airbus A319 (A319) | -460 ft/m | 197 nm | 00:40 | View | |
13APR25 1537Z | CYYR | CYBX | Ironbird | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -145 ft/m | 246 nm | 00:50 | View | |
13APR25 1050Z | CYYR | CYBX | Shaun Dale | Unknown/Generic Undesignated (ZZZZ) | -45 ft/m | 179 nm | 00:55 | View | |
13APR25 0410Z | CYYR | CYBX | musefan | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -472 ft/m | 164 nm | 00:40 | View | |
13APR25 0309Z | CYYR | CYBX | Cyulator | Airbus A319 (A319) | -330 ft/m | 180 nm | 00:33 | View | |
13APR25 0232Z | CYYR | CYBX | Twotonemurphy | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -65 ft/m | 237 nm | 00:47 | View | |
13APR25 0231Z | CYYR | CYBX | FierceWolf | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -28 ft/m | 216 nm | 00:46 | View | |
13APR25 0229Z | CYYR | CYBX | SoaringAJ | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -46 ft/m | 212 nm | 00:44 | View | |
13APR25 0223Z | CYYR | CYBX | Quasar Core | Airbus A-400M (A400) | -138 ft/m | 180 nm | 00:35 | View | |
12APR25 2038Z | CYYR | CYBX | Viperstrike95 | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -273 ft/m | 165 nm | 00:33 | View |