18 January 1914

On Sunday, January 18, 1914, San Francisco-born Chinese-American aviation pioneer Tom Gunn (1890-1925) put on a flying exhibition for 1,500 enthralled spectators gathered at a makeshift airstrip on the Panau plateau of Kaua'i, about a mile west of Koloa. At 2:10 p.m. he took off and up, heading south toward the ocean and then east to Koloa, before banking westward and landing about five minutes later.