1929 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1929:

Events

Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
Cubana de Aviacix³n begins service.

Pan Am begins service.
The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is formed.
First official airmail to the Mackenzie District of Canada's western Arctic by bushpilot.
Airway Beacon is built in St. Paul, Minnesota. It still exists in Indian Mounds Park.
Aircraft Development Corporation changes its name to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation.
The Imperial Japanese Navy begins to gather information on aerial techniques, training, and aircraft necessary for dive bombing.
The Royal Swedish Navy assigns a ship to aviation service for the first time.

January

The Cierva C.8W autogyro makes the first autogyro flight in the United States, at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
January 1 - Polish airline LOT formed.
January 1 - 7 - Carl Spaatz and four other Air Corps fliers set an endurance record of 151 hours aloft in the Question Mark
January 27 - USS Saratoga carries out a successful simulated dawn raid on the Panama Canal in a training exercise.

March

March 30 - Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between England and India.

April

April 24-26 - Sqn Ldr A. G. Jones-Wiliams and Flt Lt N. H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from England to India using a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane.

May

May 20 - The Peruvian Army's aviation branch and the Peruvian Navy's Naval Aviation Corps are combined to form the Peruvian Aviation Corps, forerunner of the Peruvian Air Force.

June

June 13 - The United States Coast Guard establishes an "air traffic flight-following" capability along the coast of the continental United States employing a network of Coast Guard radio stations.

July

July 3 - Lt A. W. Gordon hooks a Vought VO-1 onto US Navy airship USS Los Angeles in successful parasite fighter experiments.
July 4 - The Japanese aviator Masashi Goto crashes and is killed in Utah's Uinta Mountains in the beginning stages of an attempted flight around the world by crossing the continents of North America, Europe and Asia.
July 7 - Transcontinental Air Transport commences a regular service transporting passengers right across the United States in 48 hours, using a combination of trains and aircraft for different legs of the journey.
July 13 - The Polish aviator Ludwik Idzikowski crashes in the Azores and dies in an attempt of a westbound transatlantic flight.
July 17 - Delta Air Lines started commercial airline operations.
July 22 - Lufthansa uses a catapult to launch a Heinkel HE 12 mail plane from the passenger liner Bremen, 400 km (249 miles) out of New York, speeding the mail on its way before the ship reached port.

August

August 4 - 16 - The first International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1929 in Paris, with 5,942 km race over Europe, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
August 8-29 airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight, from and to Lakehurst, New Jersey.

September

September 6 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Calshot Spit, UK. Won by Flt. Off. Henry Waghorn in a Supermarine S.6 at 528.9 km/h (328.7 mph).
September 24 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle makes a completely blind take-off, flight, and landing.
September 29 - Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte arrive in Manchuria in a Breguet 19, having set a new distance record of 7,905 km (4,912 miles) from Le Bourget, France.
September 30 - Fritz von Opel pilots the rocket-powered RAK.1 aircraft on a 75-second, 1.6-kilometer (1-mile) flight near Frankfurt-am-Main.

October

October 14 - British airship R101 makes its first flight, from Cardington, Bedfordshire, over London.
October 20 - The airfield at the Naval Air Station Glenview, located in Glenview, IL, is dedicated, and its hangar deemed the largest in the world.

November

November 11-Hawaiian Airlines, founded as Inter-Island Airways, commenced operations.
November 27-28 - Richard Evelyn Byrd and crew make the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford Trimotor.

December

December 16
British airship R100 makes its first flight, from Howden to Cardington.
Tydeo Larre Borges is the first South American pilot to cross the South Atlantic Ocean.

First flights

Macchi M.67

January

Gloster Gauntlet

February

February 1 - Lublin R-X

June

June 11 - Vickers Type 143

July

RWD-2
July 7 - Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10
July 29 - Dornier Do X

August

PZL P.1

September

September 9 - De Havilland Puss Moth
September 11 - Tupolev R-6
September 17 - Adcox Student Prince

October

October 2 - Acme Sportsman
October 14 - R101

November

November 6 - Junkers G.38
November 26 - Vickers Type 177

December

December 16 - R100
December 28 - Mitsubishi B2M

Entered service

May

Bristol Bulldog with No.3 Squadron RAF

1929 in Aviation Pictures

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