1930 in aviation

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

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] January

• January 25 - American Airways is formed

[edit] March

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

[edit] 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

[edit] June

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] August

• August 8 - end of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
• August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930 to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes.

[edit] 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.

[edit] First flights

• RWD-4 (spring)

[edit] April

• RWD-3
• April 29 - Polikarpov I-5

[edit] May

• May 6 - Boeing Monomail

[edit] June

• June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

[edit] September

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

[edit] October

• October 5 - Junkers Ju 52
• PZL P.7

[edit] November

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

[edit] December

• December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6

[edit] Entered service