Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/September in aviation/September 9
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- 1966 - the Concorde's Rolls-Royce Olympus engine begins flight tests underneath an Avro Vulcan bomber
- 1955 - American Airlines, TWA, and United Airlines agree to adopt a domestic "coach class" for transcontinental flights across the United States.
- 1943 - Italian battleship Roma is sunk by two Fritz X radio controlled glide bombs
- 1922 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the first King's Cup air race, flying from England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.
- 1913 - Prevost reaches 204 km/h with the "Deperdussin-racing aeroplane".
- 1911 - the first British airmail flight is made. Gustav Hamel flies from Hendon to Windsor.
- 1908, Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
