TaleSpin Timeline

The following timeline covers the entire scope of TaleSpin history, from past events to adventures covered in the TaleSpin series. Appearances of important characters are chronicled, as well as major world events or happenings such as the Great War. Since TaleSpin relates to real-world time periods, these dates are purposely held to a real-world calendar — the year 1941 being the year in which the series officially begins with the episode "Plunder & Lightning."

(For the rationale behind the arrangement of this timeline, please review The Timeline Explained.)

While by no means definitive, this timeline provides a very rough chronology for major events in TaleSpin-world history.

	Pre-Series — Before the Great War
1897	Shere Khan is born.
1906	Baloo is born.
1908	Don Karnage is born.
1911	Rebecca Cunningham is born in Cape Suzette.
	The Great War
1914	The Great War begins, plunging world powers into armed conflict. Flight captain Joe McGee heroically saves his crew from a burning plane, disabling his leg in the process. Grounded for life, McGee opens a legendary flight school on the outskirts of a remote badlands area.
1916	Thembrian lieutenant commander Ivanod Spigot distinguishes himself in the Battle of Bulldoon.
1917	Rick Sky, leader of the legendary Squadron of Seven, wins a victory for allied forces in the decisive Battle of the Great War.
1918	Rick Sky and the Squadron of Seven mysteriously disappear while transporting a shipment of silver for the war effort. The Great War ends. Relations between Cape Suzette and Thembria promptly deteriorate. Whistlestop Jackson begins his globe-trotting adventures, making him a hero to millions.
	After the Great War
1921	Conwing Aircraft Corporation produces the Conwing L-16, one of the greatest aircraft of all time. The Sea Duck is constructed. Colonel Spigot is appointed head of the Thembrian Air Force.
1922	Legendary flight instructor Joe McGee passes away.
1925	Shere Khan becomes chairman and CEO of Khan Industries.
1929	Kit Cloudkicker is born.
1932	Kit Cloudkicker is placed in an orphanage.
1934	Don Karnage forms his own band of Air Pirates. The Iron Vulture, a giant air carrier of the Great War era, is stolen by the Air Pirates along with plans and prototypes of the CT-37 fighter.
1935	Baloo purchases the Sea Duck. Molly Cunningham is born.
1936	Baloo starts "Baloo's Air Service" and meets mechanic Wildcat. Baloo and Wildcat install the overdrive on the Sea Duck. Louie's Place opens on a tropical island in the South Seas.
1938	Kit Cloudkicker leaves the orphanage and strikes out on his own.
	The Series Begins — Baloo & Louie's Adventures
1940	Thaddeus E. Klang kidnaps archeologist Katie Dodd and resurrects the lost city of Tinabula. Baloo and Louie thwart Klang's plan to use Tinabula's great weapon to terrorize the world, destroying the city in the process. Klang vanishes without a trace.
	Kit Cloudkicker joins the Air Pirates.
	"Plunder & Lightning"
1941	The Sub-Electron Amplifier is completed at a Khan Industries research facility. Subsequently, the amplifier is stolen from Khan Flight 127 by Air Pirates, then swiped from the Pirates by Kit Cloudkicker.
	Kit Cloudkicker and Baloo meet for the first time. Baloo loses his business to Rebecca Cunningham, who establishes Higher for Hire Air Cargo Service.
	Don Karnage and his Air Pirates attack Cape Suzette with a lightning gun, during the historic Invasion of Cape Suzette. In destroying the lightning gun, the Sea Duck is demolished, but Rebecca Cunningham has it rebuilt a week later.
	The Series Era — Highlights
1941	Kit joins Daring Dan's air circus for a brief period. Dan is later arrested by police for exploitation.
	A series of mysterious disappearances occur along the Master Run, a Khan Industries route that runs between the Twin Spires. The disappearances are revealed to be the work of Air Pirates, who use two giant mirrors between the spires to trick pilots into crash-landing.
	Martin Torque's Auto-Aviator mechanical pilot is put into mass production by Khan Industries, causing a cataclysmic drop in pilot employment within the aviation industry. The Auto-Aviator is discontinued shortly thereafter due to design flaws.
	Shere Khan allegedly strikes a deal with Air Pirates to stage a fuel shortage in order to raise gasoline prices.
	Baloo discovers the fabled city of Panda-La, and thwarts an attempt by the supposedly peaceful Pandas to conquer Cape Suzette.
	In a historic moment, Baloo and Wildcat break the sound barrier.
	Rick Sky is found alive in the North Sea; he and his men had been caught in a snowstorm and remained trapped in the icy White Cliffs of Rover for twenty years, preserved without age. The silver treasure is recovered and Rick's logbook is placed in the Cape Suzette Museum of History.