Hawaiian Airlines celebrated its 90th birthday on Monday with a special flight replicating the carrier’s inaugural voyage on November 11th, 1929. The day began with a plane pull competition fundraiser at Castle & Cooke Aviation hangar near the John Rodgers Airport site, where the airline’s first flight took off from. The event attracted about 2,000 participants from throughout Hawaii and raised over $33,000 for Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, a nonprofit organization.


Passengers were greeted by crew members wearing vintage Hawaiian uniforms from the 1960s through the 1990s. With beverage service, those on the flight were offered a copy of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from the day of the maiden flight.