- 1919 in aviation
yearbox
in?=in aviation
cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1916
yp2=1917
yp3=1918
year=1919
ya1=1920
ya2=1921
ya3=1922
dp3=1880s
dp2=1890s
dp1=1900s
d=1910s
dn1=1920s
dn2=1930s
dn3=1940sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1919 :Events
*
Raymond Orteig offers theOrteig Prize for the first non-stoptransatlantic flight between New York and Paris.January
*
January 8 -Civil aviation resumes inGermany
*January 10 -Airco DH.4 s ofNo.2 (Communications) Squadron, RAF are converted for transporting passengers and mail betweenLondon andParis , in support of theVersailles Peace Conference
*January 16 - Maj A.S.C. MacLaren and CptRobert Halley arrive inDelhi , completing the first England-India flight, in aHandley Page V/1500
*January 19 -Jules Védrines claims a FF25,000 prize by landing an aircraft (aCaudron G-3 ) on the roof of a department store in Paris. Védrines is injured and his aircraft is damaged beyond repair in the hard landing in a space only 28 m x 12 m (92 ft x 40 ft).February
*
February 5 - Beginning of regular flights between Berlin and Weimar by theDeutsche Luft-Reederei with AEG and DFW biplanes.
*February 8 -Henry Farman carries 11 paying passengers in his plane from Paris to London on first commercial flight between the two cities.March
*
March 1 - Germanairline Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR) begins scheduled flights toHamburg .
**An airmail service beginsFolkestone andCologne
*March 10 - Australia's Prime Minister announces a £ 10,000 reward to the first aviator who will fly from Great-Britain to Australia in less than 30 days.
*March 3 - The first US international airmail is carried betweenVancouver, British Columbia andSeattle byWilliam Boeing in aBoeing CL-4S .
*March 22 - First regular international commercial route opens between Paris and Brussels, flown by anF.60 Goliath from Farman airlines.
*March 24 -Igor Sikorsky fleesEurope for theUnited States .April
*
April 18 - CMA (Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes ) commences a mail and freight service between Paris andLille , using ex-militaryBreguet 14 s.
*April 23 - TheNorth Sea Aerial Navigation Company begins a passenger run betweenLeeds andHounslow in ex-militaryBlackburn Kangaroo sMay
* A
Fairey III Cseaplane is used for a regular newspaper run, carrying the "Evening Times" to towns along theKent coast.
*May 8 - AUS Navy flying boat ,NC-4 , piloted by Coast Guard pilot Elmer F. Stone begins an Atlantic crossing, flying by short stages fromLong Island, New York toLisbon ,Portugal . It arrives 19 days later onMay 28 .
*May 15 - A transcontinental air route between Chicago and Cleveland is inaugurated by US Mail.
*May 18 -Harry Hawker and Lt CdrKenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempt a non-stop Atlantic crossing but are forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's "Daily Mail " newspaper awards them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway.June
*
June 1 - A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed inSan Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplusCurtiss JN-4 s.
*June 12 -Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).
*June 14 - Cpt John Alcock and LtArthur Whitten Brown set out on the first successful non-stop Atlantic crossing, flying aVickers Vimy from Newfoundland toIreland in 16 hours. They win £10,000 from the "Daily Mail" and are both knighted.
*June 23 - SixZeppelins (LZ 46 ,LZ 79 ,LZ 91 ,LZ103 ,LZ 110 , andLZ 111 ) are destroyed atNordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.July
*
July 1 - London's firstairport is opened, atHounslow Heath . The facilities include a permanent Customs hall.
*July 2 - TheAirship R34 achieves the first airship crossing of the Atlantic and the first East-West Atlantic flight, leavingEast Fortune ,Scotland , to arrive inNew York onJuly 6 . The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives in back in the UK onJuly 13 .
*July 14 - AFiat BR makes the first direct flight fromRome to Paris.
** To protest against the fact that pilots have to parade on foot at the victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the famous "Arc de Triomphe".
*July 21 -Anthony Fokker founds theDutch Aircraft Factory atSchiphol .August
*
August 7 - CptErnest Hoy makes the first aircraft crossing of theRocky Mountains , fromVancouver toCalgary .
*August 25 - the first daily international flights begin, with theAircraft Transport and Travel company flying ade Havilland DH.16 between London andle Bourget .eptember
*
September 19 - CMA (Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes ) commences a regular service between Paris and London, using ex-militaryBreguet 14 s.
*September 24 - theSchneider Trophy race is flown atBournemouth , UK. An ItalianSavoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilotGuido Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
*September 30 - theBritish Aerial Transport Company begins domestic flights between London andBirmingham in aKoolhoven FK.26 .
** Commander Biard, flying the Supermarine route between Southampton andLe Havre , knocks his passenger out during the flight. The man, a Belgian banker named Lowenstein, wanted to open his umbrella to protect himself from the wind and rain.October
*
October 4 - A new altitude world record of 31,569 ft is set by American pilot Rudolp Schroeder, flying a Le Père-Lusac 11.
*October 7 -KLM is formed.
*October 8 - TheUS Army Air Service begins a trans-continental air race. By the time LtBelvin Maynard wins it onOctober 31 , seven airmen have died in the attempt.
*October 11 -Handley Page Transport begins offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. The meals, consisting of a sandwich, fruits and chocolate, are sold at 3 shillings each.
*October 13 -Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed inParis .
*October 20 - The French pilotBernard de Romanet , flying aNieuport-Delage 29v , sets a new world speed record of 166.92 mph.November
*
November 1 - West Indies Airways begins exploitation of a route betweenKey West in Florida and La Havana, in Cuba.
*November 12 -Keith and Ross Smith set out to fly aVickers Vimy , G-EAOU, fromEngland toAustralia , the first flight between these two places. They arrive in Darwin onDecember 18 .
*November 14 - TheAmerican Railway Express Company hires aHandley Page V/1500 to carry 454 kg (1,000 lb) of parcels fromNew York toChicago , but the attempt fails due to mechanical problems.
*November 15 - Alameda officials make an announcement stating that suspected criminals will be subjected to perilous flight to make them confess their crimes.
*November 16 - CptHenry Wrigley and Lt Arthur Murphy make the first aerial crossing of Australia, flying aRoyal Aircraft Factory BE.2 e fromMelbourne to Darwin, taking 46 hours.December
*
December 5 -Avianca is founded as the "Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transporte Aéreo" inBarranquilla .
*December 18 - Sir John Alcock is killed in a crash atRouen .First flights
*
Savoia S.16 flying boat
*Armstrong Whitworth Siskin January
*
De Havilland Oxford February
*
February 21 -Thomas Morse MB-3 , first US-built fighterApril
*
British Aerial Transport Company F.K.26 Commercial - first purpose-built airlinerMay
*
May 10 -Avro Baby June
*
June 25 -Junkers F.13 November
*
November 10 -Blériot-SPAD S.27 December
*
December 2 - Handley-Page W8
*December 27 -Boeing model 6 , Boeing's first commercial designEntered service
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.