The AEA Silver Dart, researched and built by the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) under Alexander Graham Bell's tutelage in 1908.

Taken from Canadian Forces page on the Silver Dart [1] archive copy at the Wayback Machine in accordance with their copyright policy [2] archive copy at the Wayback Machine and uploaded for use in that article by me. -Lommer 23:01, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Note that although the aircraft was demonstrated to the Canadian Army in 1909, it was never purchased, nor were similar aircraft every ordered for their armies by the Canadian or U.S. governments. Thus it was a civilian aircraft, and it can not be considered a 'military' aircraft in any sense.

This image is also almost 100 years old (taken 1909) and therefore qualifies as a public domain image. However, it is listed as copyrighted on the Canadian Forces site and so I have tagged it under that licence.

This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following: 1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or it was not subject to Crown copyright, and 2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or 3. the creator died prior to January 1, 1972. Morate dodati i oznaku javnog vlasništva za Sjedinjene Američke Države da bi se naznačilo zašto je ovo djelo u javnom vlasništvu u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama.  Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 50 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, Switzerland and the United States are 70 years, and Venezuela is 60 years. العربية ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Ovo je djelo u javnom vlasništvu u SAD-u zato jer je objavljeno (ili registrirano pri Uredu za autorska prava Sjedinjenih Američkih Država) prije 1. siječnja 1929. Da bi bilo postavljeno na Zajedničkom poslužitelju, djelo mora biti u javnom vlasništvu i u SAD-u i u državi podrijetla. Ako rad nije djelo američkog autora, datoteka mora imati dodatnu oznaku autorskog prava koja ukazuje na status autorskog prava u zemlji podrijetla. PD-US-expired Public domain in the United States //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AEA_Silver_Dart.jpg

from english wikipedia article: AEA Silver Dart