1930 in aviation

1930 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:

Events

* The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
* The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.

January

* January 25 - American Airways is formed

March

* March 21 - the Chilean army and navy combine their air arms into a separate, independent command.

May

* May 5-24 - Amy Johnson flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
* May 15 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport

June

* June 4 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 m) in a F3W Apache

July

*July 16 - August 8 - the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest "Challenge 1930" in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
*July 19 - Death of Frank Goldsborough in a crash in Vermont.
*July 20 - August 1 - 7,560 km race over Europe of the "Challenge 1930" contest.
*July 29 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.

August

*August 8 - end of the "Challenge 1930" contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
*August 23 - Ford National Reliability Air Tour starts in Chicago.
*August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey

eptember

*September 3 - Ford National Reliability Air Tour finishes in Chicago. Harry Russell takes first place, and Eddie August Schneider finishes in eight place, but wins the Great Lakes Trophy.

October

* October 5 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
* October 25 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.

First flights

* RWD-4 (spring)

April

* RWD-3
* April 29 - Polikarpov I-5

May

* May 6 - Boeing Monomail
* May 16 - Blériot 110

June

* June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

July

* July 18 - Blackburn Sydney

eptember

* September 12 - Taylor E-2
* September 24 - Short Rangoon

October

* October 5 - Junkers Ju 52
* PZL P.7

November

* November 14 - Handley Page HP.42
* November 18 - Boeing XP-9
* November 25 - Fairey Hendon

December

* December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6

Entered service


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