By Mohamed Attia
The Ministry of Civil Aviation will celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Civil Aviation Day next Wednesday which falls on January 26 of each year.
The origin of this date is to commemorate the day when the Egyptian pilot took off in Berlin, and went from one place to Europe with another plane until he arrived in Cairo on January 26, 1930, arrived at Heliopolis airport and found the masses crowded at the airport.
The Egyptian ministers of foreign affairs and transportation issued in February 1930 and was officially inaugurated in 1932.
These steps encouraged Kamal Elwi, who travelled to Paris, learned to fly, bought a plane, and returned to Cairo to lead a campaign to form EgyptAir.
His call was met with the call of the Egyptian economy pioneer, Talaat Harb, to establish an airline to handle air transport business at home and abroad. To celebrate this day, it was decided that it would be the 26th January of each year as a national holiday for Egyptian Civil Aviation.
