Born (
Victoria)
1897
Died (unknown?)
1935
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was a Pioneer
Australian Aviator. In
1928 he became
the first person to fly across the
Pacific ocean from
America to
Australia.
Kingsford Smith
disappeared during a flight from Australia to the UK in 1935. The primary
Sydney airport is named in
his honour and (until the introduction of the
plastic banknotes) his face and his plane, the
Fokker "
Southern Cross" were on the Australian
20 dollar bill. He has now been replaced with fellow aviator
John Flynn
In
2001, his
historic flight was matched by a
robot-controlled
aircraft, the
Global Hawk named "
Southern Cross II".