page_title: List of people from Brisbane
section_title: Aviators
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Brisbane / Aviators
caption_attribution_description: English: Landing the aircraft, Southern Cross in Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1928 Inscription on back of photograph reads: ' The big three engine Fokker monoplane.' VH-USU Southern Cross.
context_page_description: This listing includes notable people who were born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — as well as notable people who are working in Brisbane, or who began their careers in Brisbane.
context_section_description: Notable Brisbane-born aviators include:
  Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, pioneer aviator, who, with his crew, made the first flight across the Pacific in his aircraft, the "Southern Cross", from San Francisco, California, United States to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1928.  The 1928 trans-Pacific flight was the first flight from one side of the ocean to the other.
  The aircraft is currently preserved and on display in the Kingsford Smith Memorial, a special a climate-controlled sealed glass building near the International terminal at Brisbane Airport
caption: The Southern Cross landing in Brisbane in 1928
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