The first claimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aviation">powered flight</a>, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gustave Whitehead">Gustave Whitehead</a> in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead_No._21" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Whitehead No. 21">Number 21</a>.<sup about="#mwt131" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_14#cite_note-24" id="mw0w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw1A">[24]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt127" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFHussey2015">Hussey, Kristin (17 April 2015). <a class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/where-was-modern-flight-invented-connecticut-believes-it-holds-the-answer.html" id="mwCEk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"First in Flight? Connecticut Stakes a Claim (Published 2015)"</a>. <i id="mwCEo">The New York Times</i>. Archived from <span class="id-lock-limited" id="mwCEs" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/where-was-modern-flight-invented-connecticut-believes-it-holds-the-answer.html" id="mwCEw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a></span> on 2022-01-01<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCE0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCE4">16 March</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt127" class="Z3988" id="mwCE8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=First+in+Flight%3F+Connecticut+Stakes+a+Claim+%28Published+2015%29&amp;rft.date=2015-04-17&amp;rft.aulast=Hussey&amp;rft.aufirst=Kristin&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F04%2F18%2Fnyregion%2Fwhere-was-modern-flight-invented-connecticut-believes-it-holds-the-answer.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+14"></span><span about="#mwt130" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"cbignore","href":"./Template:Cbignore"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwCFA" typeof="mw:Transclusion"></span></span>