answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

New Zealand aviator, Richard Pearse on 31 March 1903

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

10y ago

Gustave Whitehead buit the first successful aircraft almost a year before the Wrights. He never had the benefit of their kind of publicity.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Who built the first airplane that actually flew?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Who built and flew the first airplane?

The Wright brother built the first functional airplane and flew it in Kitty Hawk, NC.


Who built and flew the first airplane with a engine?

wright brothers


Built and flew the first motor driven airplane?

The Wright brothers


Which German company built and flew the first jet airplane in 1939?

heinkel


When did the wright brothers invert the airplane?

Wright brothers did not invent the airplane. They built the first one that flew, there is a difference.


Who discover airoplan?

No one discovered the airplane. The brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright invented, built, and successfully flew the first airplane.


Builted the first airplane?

The first powered aeroplane built that actually flew was made by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903. But there were unpowered gliders built by people like Otto Lilienthal before this time that were able to fly (or glide)


How old was Amelia when she flew her first airplane?

She was 21 when she first flew.


Who built and flew the first airplane ever made with an engine?

The Writght brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright designed and flew the first airplane with an engine on December 17, 1903. This airplane is called the Wright Flyer and it is currently on exhibit at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC.


Who flew the first unmanned airplane?

If it was "unmanned" -nobody flew it.


When did the Wright brothers invent the first airplane?

1903 The Wrights didn't invent the first airplane. -They built and flew the first powered, controllable aircraft. -Many men had built different aircraft before them, but none were successful at long, controlled flight.


What year did the first airplane?

the wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1903