Who was the first president to fly in an airplane?
The first president to fly in an airplane while in office was Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943. The first ex-president to fly in an airplane was Theodore Roosevelt, who flew as a passenger in a 4-minute flight in one of the early Wright biplanes on October 11, 1910, a year after he had left office. Both of these answers, as well as more facts about presidents and air travel of all sorts, appear under the heading “PRESIDENT (U.S.)” in Famous First Facts, by Joseph Nathan Kane. 4th ed. H.W. Wilson Company. 1981.
