 On 10 September 1933, two French pilots, Maurice Samat and Paul Louis Lemerle, flew from Reunion Island to Mauritius on a Potez 43 plane called "Monique".The pilots landed in Mon-Choisy in the north of the island.On 4 October of the same year, a Mauritian pilot, Jean Hily, took off from Mon-Choisy for Réunion island.