Plane Facts: Disappearances

First reported missing aircraft: Hot air balloon Ville de Paris Pilot: Matias Perez, lost and presumed dead General location: Straits of Florida First missing airplane: December 22, 1910, Short S.27 Location: Somewhere over the English Channel Mission: Return to England Pilot: Cecil Grace; body recovered three months later Next three planes that disappeared: All Bleriot Model 11s First military aircraft to go more »