Well if you'd said model airplane we'd have got that in a jiffy - obviouslyGoodness, no.
I must put you out of your misery.
John Stringfellow of Chard in Somerset (my neck of the woods).
First engine powered airplane in 1848.
It was a model airplane, but a powered plane non the less.
(He eventually left Chard for the village of Baddeley Burned in Norfolk)