Air Day!

If you're looking for something to do today then breathe deep because it's Air Day! OK, maybe it has something to do with air travel... But, let's get right into celebrating Air Day!

WHY IS THIS A HOLIDAY?

Well, this day got its start back in 1929 thanks to Governor Lawrence Judd, of Hawaii, when the first commercial air service started at John Rodgers Airport. This was the beginning of flights between the Hawaiian Islands and the start of Inter-Island Airways.
Traveling times just got a whole lot shorter, as things were taken to the air! And even if you don't live in Hawaii, I'm sure when you travel there you'll appreciate being able to fly from island to island. John Rodgers Airport was eventually renamed Honolulu International Airport, but they actually flew over 10,000 passengers in their first full year of service. Not too bad for planes that only had 8 seats on them! Hey, it was 1930... give them a break. But to start off the first Air Day, there were two Sikorsky S-38 airplanes named Hawaii and Maui, after the islands, which were escorted by 49 military planes on their first flight.