1926 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1926:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 October 1.8 November 2 First flights 2.1 April 2.2 June 3 Entered service 3.1 June 3.2 August 3.3 September 3.4 December

[edit] Events

• United Airlines established.

[edit] January

• January 6 - Deutsche Lufthansa is formed by the merger of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr
• January 26 - The Plus Ultra, a Dornier Do J hydroplane completes a Trans-Atlantic flight with a crew of Spanish aviators, including Ramón Franco and Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz.

[edit] March

• March 1 - Four Royal Air Force Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2
• March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts.

[edit] April

• April 1 - Italian airline Società Italiana Servizi Aerei begins operations linking Trieste, Venice, Pavia, and Turin with Cant 10 flying boats.
• April 6 - Varney Speed Lines begins operations in the US. It will later become Continental Airlines
• April 30 - Bessie Coleman, the first licensed African-American female pilot was killed along with mechanic William Wills, who was piloting the plane, after they crashed as a result of a wrench that Wills had accidentally left loose and that got stuck in the control gears.

[edit] May

• May 9 - Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first flight over the North Pole in a Fokker VIIa-3m.
• May 11 - 14 – Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitzbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later.

[edit] June

• June 30 - Alan Cobham sets out on a round trip from England to Australia in a de Havilland DH.50. He will arrive back in London on October 1 and receive a knighthood for his accomplishment.

[edit] July

• July 1 - A Blackburn Dart makes the first night landing on an aircraft carrier, HMS Furious
• July 2 - the United States Army Air Service becomes the United States Army Air Corps.
• July 24 - two Lufthansa Junkers G.24s leave Berlin to make a round-trip to Beijing. They will return on September 26.

[edit] October

• October 21 - British airship R.33 makes further parasite fighter tests, releasing two Gloster Grebes from 2,500 ft (762 m).

[edit] November

• November 13 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Hampton Roads, USA. Won by Mario De Bernardi (Italy) in a Macchi M.39 at 396.698 km/h (246.5 mph).
• November 15 - T. Neville Stack and B. S. Leete leave England in an attempt to reach India by air in a de Havilland DH.60. They will arrive in Karachi on January 8, 1927.

[edit] First flights

• Boulton Paul Sidestrand

[edit] April

• April 24 - Handley Page Harrow (HP.31)

[edit] June

• June 19 - Blackburn Iris

[edit] Entered service

[edit] June

• June 16 - Armstrong Whitworth Argosy with Imperial Airways

[edit] August

• Lioré et Olivier 21 with Air Union

[edit] September

• Martin T3M with the United States Navy

[edit] December

• SABCA S-2 with SABENA