The history of Nigerian aviation will be incomplete without the mention of ​Maiduguri and ​Kano city, where the first aircraft landed in Nigeria on November 1, 1925.

It is exactly 90 years since the historic flights, involving three De Havilland DH 9A aircraft belonging to the Royal Air Force, RAF.

Vincent Orange’s book, the “Coningham: A Biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham”, vividly captured the expedition.

The air trip, led by the then Flight Lt. Coningham, began from Helwan (a town in Egypt) to Kano, with several stopovers with Egypt, Sudan and N’Djamena – then known as Fort Lamy.

Excerpts from pages 44 to 46 of the book revealed details about the journey, including how the pilots played polo with Emir of Zazzau, Ibrahim Kwasau and how Shehu of Borno Sanda Kura offered them rams.

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That planes shows how far technology has changed.

Happy weekend all.

Its true. I was there when it landed

Interesting

mybestlove:
What's the great deal in being FTC.

No cash entered my account as
it yields nothing.

That planes shows how far technology has changed.

Happy weekend all.

u mumu ooo.. U already celebrating when the thread is never on fp

Nice one

Op point of correction, this is what we call aloplane.

The same Maiduguri

FP PLS

Some serious throwback

Wow, how times have changed.
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"Played polo with some Emirs"... Polo is the game!

When we self go dey make all these things for Africa, abi Na only oyibo get sense?

While Kano is the first place a plane landed and the first airport terminal built, Ekiti is the first place a plane crashed during the Second World War.

This is a pieces of history!