Anything going on to celebrate the first Atlantic crossing by an Aeroplane ?

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Just wondering if there is anything going on this year, to celebrate 100 year's since the first Atlantic crossing, by an aeroplane ?

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Well the 100th anniversary of the crossing in hops by the US Navy's Curtiss NC-4 to Lisbon and Plymouth has been and gone in May...a planned commemorative crossing by 3 Grumman Albatrosses was cancelled some months ago after one of them sank last year. I believe there was some celebration at Rockaway, Long Island (the starting point)? Don't know if anything is planned to commemorate Alcock and Brown's flight...NC-4 at Plymouth [ATTACH=JSON]{"alt":"Click image for larger version Name:\tNC-4-Plymouth.jpg Views:\t0 Size:\t228.5 KB ID:\t3865349","data-align":"none","data-attachmentid":"3865349","data-size":"full"}[/ATTACH]

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This is a British aircraft with British crew. Fat chance of anything positive been planned, god forbid we might celebrate the achievement.
I was at the Kensington Science museum earlier this year and the original Vimy was in its usual place with no additional Anniversary information. Non-event, nothing to see here.
A question for the more learned among you. Why does the Vimy have neither military serial or civil registration ?

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Surprising that the US Navy didn't commemorate the NC-4 crossing with a transatlantic flight as in 1949 and 1986

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This is a British aircraft with British crew. Fat chance of anything positive been planned, god forbid we might celebrate the achievement.

Perfectly fitting with the v of the feat at irtually non-existent reporting of the feat at the time coinciding, as it did, with the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow.

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Perhaps the Alcock and Brown statue could be displayed more prominently at Heathrow when its returns?

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Why does the Vimy have neither military serial or civil registration ?

Because the first permanent British civil register came into force on 22 July 1919, a month after the Trans-Atlantic flight. It was a civil aeroplane at the time, but the requirement to have a registration (or a certificate of airworthiness) wasn't there yet. A temporary scheme had been started on 1 May 1919, but as far as I can tell the Vimy wasn't registered in the K-sequence that was used. And after its undignified arrival in Ireland, the Vimy would not fly again so there was no need to retroactively register it.
More about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...t_registration