2011 marks a centennial of aviation in Singapore. Singapore saw her first aircraft, piloted by Mr Joseph Christiaens, in a Bristol Box-Kite biplane, take off from the racecourse in Farrer Park on 16 March 1911, approximately in the early evening and that marked the start of aviation in Singapore. Eight years later, on 4 December 1919 about 4:48pm, a pioneering flight from England to Australia, piloted by Captain (later Sir) Ross MacPherson Smith, with Lieutenant (later Sir) Keith MacPherson Smith as navigator, Sergeant Bennet and Sergeant Shiers, on a modified Vicker-Vimy biplane, landed on the racecourse in Farrer Park. From then, the development of our aviation industry never looked back.

The opening of her first civil airport located at Seletar, completed in 1929 received the first commercial flight into Singapore arriving on 10 February 1930 from Batavia (now Jakarta), a Fokker F-VIIA at about 1:30pm.

On 20 August 1955, Singapore's Paya Lebar Airport was officially opened. Today, the airport is now a base for the Republic of Singapore Air Force, and is the site of RSAF open house to allow public to come close and personal to the crafts and technology that our air force possess.

When it first opened on 29 December 1981, Changi Airport had several firsts, including being the world's largest airport and having the world's largest column-free hanger at 20,000 square metres. Singapore today boasts a world-renowned international airport.

Let us capture these historical moments in this historical journey and relive times from the early days to present, interestingly depicted in this set of stamps.