1923 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1923:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 December 2 First flights 2.1 January 2.2 March 2.3 May 2.4 June 2.5 July 2.6 August 2.7 September 2.8 October 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• Air Union is created by the merger of Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes (CMA) with Grands Express Aériens (CGEA).

[edit] February

• The first take-off and landing on the new Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō is made by a British pilot in a Mitsubishi 1MF.
• The RAF conducts operations in Southern Iraq against uprisings led by Sheik Mahmud Barzenci.
• February 1 - the Danish Army Flying Corps is established

[edit] March

• Dobrolet is formed, as the first Soviet airline. It will later become part of Aeroflot.
• March 17 - the US government authorises Army aircraft to drop calcium arsenate on Louisiana's cotton fields in order to kill weevils.

[edit] April

• April 10 - Daimler Airways begins the first scheduled service between London and Berlin (via Bremen and Hamburg).
• April 16 - 17 - Lt John Arthur Macready and Lt Oakley Kelley establish a new endurance record, staying aloft for 36 hours 5 minutes in a Fokker T-2, covering a distance of 2,518 miles (4,052 km).

[edit] May

• May 2-3 - Kelly MacReady complete the first non-stop flight from New York to Los Angeles, in 27 hours in a Fokker T-2.
• May 3 - the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation is formed by Igor Sikorsky at a Long Island chicken farm.
• May 23 - Belgian airline SABENA is formed, adding new European routes to SNETA's routes in Belgian Congo that it takes over.

[edit] June

• June 14 - New Zealand forms its first military aviation services, fore-runners of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

[edit] July

• July 19 - Czechoslovakian airline CSA commences operations.

[edit] August

• August 21 - first electric Airway Beacons start appearing at US airfields, to assist in night flying operations.
• August 28 - Lt John Richter and Lowell Smith establish a new endurance record of 37 hours 15 minutes in an Airco DH.4, covering 3,293 miles (5,299 km). They are refueled fifteen times during the flight.

[edit] September

• September 5 - US Army bombers carry out anti-shipping exercises, sinking the obsolete battleships USS Virginia and USS New Jersey.
• September 28 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Cowes, UK. Won by David Rittenhouse (USA) in a Curtiss CR.3 at 285.5 km/h (177.4 mph).

[edit] October

• October 6 - Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer Trophy Race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).
• October 15 – First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent.

[edit] December

• December 21 The French dirigible Dixmude exploded over the Mediterranean Sea en route from Cuers-Pierrefeu to Algeria after being struck by lightning. All 52 crew members on board perished.

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 9 - Cierva C.4
• January 19 - Armstrong Whitworth Wolf

[edit] March

• Aero A.18
• Hawker Woodcock

[edit] May

• Gloster Grebe

[edit] June

• June 2 – Boeing XPW-9

[edit] July

• July 30 - de Havilland DH.50

[edit] August

• August 22 - Barling XNBL
• August 23 - Polikarpov I-1

[edit] September

• September 3 - USS Shenandoah
• September 3 - Curtiss R2C

[edit] October

• October 2 - de Havilland Humming Bird
• October 23 - Handley Page Hyderabad

[edit] Entered service