Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/July in aviation/July 2
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- 2005 - Steve Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated the first direct crossing of the Atlantic by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown on June 14 1919 in a Vickers Vimy bi-plane.
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean.
- 1926 - the United States Army Air Service becomes the United States Army Air Corps.
- 1919 - Airship R 34 sets out of the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives in back in the UK on July 13.
- 1912 - The Danish Air Force is established as an army air corps.
- 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies the first rigid airship, the LZ1 Zeppelin from Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen. It carries five passengers on a 20-minute flight.
