SYD corporate office renamed to honour aviation pioneers

We were proud to honour two significant aviation pioneers in June, as we renamed our corporate headquarters The Nigel Love Building and The Charles Ulm Building.

We held an unveiling ceremony with the families of some of the most important aviation trailblazers in history, with descendants from Nigel Love, Charles Ulm, Charles Kingsford Smith, Nancy-Bird Walton, Billy Marshall and Keith "Bill" Bradfield gathering together for the first time.

In 1919, Nigel Love chose a bullock paddock in Mascot to launch his aviation ambitions, the location where Sydney Airport still stands 100 years later. Love piloted the first commercial flight in Sydney that same year, heralding the start of a new era in aviation.

Charles Ulm is one of Australia’s most visionary aviation trailblazers. Ulm flew the record-breaking circumnavigation of Australia in 1927 and was part of a four-man crew on the ‘Southern Cross’, the world’s first trans-Pacific flight from the United States in 1928.