Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/September in aviation/September 7
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- 1956 - the Bell X-2 research aircraft is flown by Captain Iven C. Kincheloe to a new altitude record of 126,200 ft (38,466 m).
- 1940 - Hermann Göring orders the Luftwaffe to stop targeting British airfields and attack London itself instead.
- 1940 - 7-8 - the largest mass air combat in history takes place over Britain, with 1,200 British and German aircraft operating in an area of only 24 x 48 km (15 x 30 miles)
- 1934 - 16 - 9,537 km race over Europe and North Africa and a speed trial of the Challenge 1934 contest.
- 1933 - 7-8 - six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats make a non-stop formation flight from Norfolk, Virginia to the Panama Canal, covering 2,059 miles (3,314 km) in 25 hours 20 minutes.
- 1932 - Thomas Settle and Winfield Bushnell set a new balloon distance record of 1,550 km (963 miles) between Basle, Switzerland and Vilna, Poland.
- 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the 1st time successfully.
