1932 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1932:

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 November 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 November 2.9 December 3 Entered service 3.1 February 3.2 December

[edit] Events

• The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is retired.

[edit] January

• Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers Hōshō and Kaga sail into Chinese territorial waters at the outbreak of the Shanghai Incident.
• January 20 - Imperial Airways weekly airmail service is extended through Africa as far as Cape Town.

[edit] February

• February 14 - Ruth Nichols sets a new altitude record for a diesel-powered aircraft, 6,047 m (19,928 ft) in a modified Lockheed Vega

[edit] March

• The final Avro 504 leaves the production line. The type has been in continuous production for nineteen years.
• March 20 - Luftschiffbau Zeppelin begins regular trans-atlantic services between Germany and Brazil, using the Graf Zeppelin.
• March 24-28 - Jim Mollison sets a new speed record between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, taking 4 days 17 hours in a de Havilland Puss Moth
• March 25 - Dobrolyot is expanded into a USSR-wide service and has its name changed to Aeroflot

[edit] April

• April 19-28 - Charles Scott sets a new solo speed record between the UK and Darwin, taking 8 days 20 hours in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
• April 27 - Imperial Airways commences a regular passenger service to Cape Town.

[edit] May

• the Egyptian Air Force is formed
• May 9 - Captain Albert Hegenberger makes the first completely blind solo flight entirely on instruments, in a Consolidated NY-2.
• May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart, flying a Lockheed Vega, becomes the first woman to make a solo flight across the North Atlantic, from Harbour Grace in Newfoundland to Derry in Northern Ireland.

[edit] June

• June 29 - a F9C Sparrowhawk parasite fighter hooks onto the USS Akron for the first time.

[edit] July

• July 21 - Wolfgang von Gronau sets out to make a round-the-world trip in a Dornier Wal. One hundred and eleven days later, it will be the first such trip made in a flying boat.
• July 23 - an aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont hangs himself

[edit] August

• August 14-28 - the third International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1932 in Berlin, won by the Polish crew Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura on the RWD-6 plane.
• August 14-23 Frances Mersalis and Louise Thaden set a women's endurance record of 8 days 4 hours.
• August 18 - Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns set a new balloon altitude record of 16,201 m (53,153 ft).
• August 18-19 - Jim Mollison makes the first solo East-to-West crossing of the Atlantic, flying a de Havilland Puss Moth from Dublin to New Brunswick
• August 21-27 - 7,363 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1932 contest.
• August 25 - Amelia Earhart makes the first transcontinental flight across the US by a woman. She flies a Lockheed Vega.

[edit] September

• September 3 - Jimmy Doolittle sets a new landplane airspeed record of 296 mph (476 km/h) in the Gee Bee R-1
• September 7 - Thomas Settle and Winfield Bushnell set a new balloon distance record of 1,550 km (963 miles) between Basle, Switzerland and Vilna, Poland.
• September 11 - Polish Challenge 1932 winners, Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura died in an aircrash.
• September 16 - Cyril Uwins sets a new heavier-than-air altitude record of 43,976 ft (13,404 m) in a Vickers Vespa.
• September 25 - Lewis Yancey sets an autogyro altitude record of 21,500 ft (6,553 m) in a Pitcairn PCA-2

[edit] October

• October 15 - Tata Sons opens an airmail route between Karachi and Madras, the first regular air service within India.

[edit] November

• November 14-18 - Amy Johnson breaks the UK-Cape Town speed record, shaving 11 hours off Mollison's record in March. She flies a de Havilland Puss Moth.
• November 19 - a national monument to the Wright Brothers is unveiled at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 29 - De Havilland Fox Moth

[edit] March

• March 20 - P-26 Peashooter

[edit] May

• May 7 - Dornier Do 11

[edit] June

• June 3 - RWD-6
• June 6 - Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta
• June 18 - Dewoitine D.500
• June 25 - Farman 1000

[edit] July

• July 8 - Supermarine Scapa

[edit] August

• August 7 - RWD-5
• August 13 - Gee Bee R-1

[edit] September

• September 30 - Blackburn Baffin

[edit] November

• November 4 - Beech Staggerwing
• November 24 - De Havilland Dragon

[edit] December

• December 1 - Heinkel He 70
• December 21 - Vickers Vincent

[edit] Entered service

[edit] February

• De Havilland Tiger Moth with RAF Central Flying School.

[edit] December

• PZL P.7a in the Polish Air Force