Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/September in aviation/September 24
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- 1966 - Marina Solovyeva sets a new women's airspeed record of 2,044 km/h (1,270 mph) in the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-76
- 1956 - the Luftwaffe is re-formed in West Germany
- 1929 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle (right) makes a completely blind take-off, flight, and landing.
- 1919 - the Schneider Trophy race is flown at Bournemouth, UK. An Italian Savoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilot Guido Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
- 1918 - Lt David Ingalls claims his fifth victory, to become the only US Navy ace of World War I.
- 1852 - English engineer Henri Giffard flies 27 km (17 miles) in a steam-powered dirigible, reaching a speed of about 10 km/h.
