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The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line (SPT Airboat Line) was the first scheduled airline using a fixed wing aircraft. [1] The airline provided service between St. Petersburg, Florida and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay, a distance of about 23 miles (37 km). It was in service from January to May 1914.
Their newly formed company, the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line purchased the Lark of Duluth and another Benoist XIV to inaugurate operations. The first scheduled flight between the two cities departed shortly before 10:00 a.m. on January 1, 1914 , piloted by Tony Jannus and carried former St Petersburg mayor Abram C. Pheil as its passenger ...
St. Petersburg is recognized as the birthplace of scheduled commercial airline flight. On January 1, 1914, [2] a Benoist XIV flying boat from the company St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line piloted by Tony Jannus, took off from the central yacht basin of the downtown waterfront, [3] on the first scheduled commercial aircraft flight in history. [4]
A 90-day contract with Benoist was signed on December 17, 1913 (the 10th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's historic first airplane flight), to provide airplanes and crew for two daily round trips across Tampa Bay, dubbed the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line — the world's first scheduled airline. [3]: 63 [9]
The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide regular services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Anthony Jannus conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. A.C. Pheil is the first airline passenger. [citation needed]
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line: 1913: May 5, 1914 United States: First winged airline. See Thomas Reilly, Jannus: An American Flyer Aircraft Transport and Travel: October 5, 1916: February 20, 1921 United Kingdom: Services started 25 August 1919; first scheduled daily international commercial air service, London to Paris.