Unlogged Flights

Flight Historian tracks all my commercial flights since 1996. However, I’ve taken a few flights which are not logged in Flight Historian.

Flights before 1996

I grew up as part of a military family and moved around the world, so I took a number of international flights as a child. However, I’m unable to recall enough information about these flights (I don’t even know the specific dates) to enter them into my flight log.

• Late 1980s: Flights to move from Denver, Colorado to (West) Berlin, (West) Germany.
• Late 1980s: Flights to move from (West) Berlin to Champagne/Urbana area, Illinois.
• Summer 1991: Flights to move from Illinois to East Anglia, United Kingdom.
• Summer 1994: Round-trip flights from London to Chicago and back to visit family over the summer.
  • I believe one of these trip sections had a New York–JFK (JFK) layover.
• Late summer 1994: Flights to move from the United Kingdom to Dayton, Ohio.
  • One of these flights was on a TWA Boeing 747 from a London area airport (likely LGW) to St. Louis (STL).
  • I explicitly remember visiting the USO lounge at STL.
  • There was likely a TWA flight from STL to Dayton (DAY).

Non-Airline Flights

I’ve had a few flights not operated by a scheduled air carrier¹ which were therefore not logged. This includes a number of general aviation flights, several helicopters, and a biplane ride.

Flights Not Leaving the Ground

I’ve boarded a few flights where we ended up deplaning before we even left the gate (usually due to a maintenance issue), or taxied around but never left the ground before returning to the gate (usually due to weather). Since the wheels never left the ground, I didn’t count those as flights in my flight log.

On one particular trip, I was trying to fly from Wichita Falls, Texas (SPS) to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and then on to Dayton (DAY), but the SPS–DFW flight was cancelled. Since it was only a small 50-seat regional jet and SPS was less than a 2-hour drive from DFW, American Airlines hired a number of vans from a taxi company to drive us to DFW, but still issued us a flight number, boarding passes, and seats for that “flight.” Even though American counted it as a flight for all intents and purposes, I did not include it in my flight log, as the van’s wheels never left the ground.