1930 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:

Events

The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.

January

January 25 - American Airways is formed

March

March 21 - The Chilean army and navy air arms are combined to form the Chilean Air Force.

May

May 5-24 - Amy Johnson flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
May 15 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport;
May 23 - President Herbert Hoover presents the crew of the flying boat NC-4 with gold medals for completing the first transatlantic flight in 1919.

June

June 4 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 m) in a F3W Apache

July

July 16 - August 8 - the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1930 in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
July 19 - Death of Frank Goldsborough in a crash in Vermont.
July 20 - August 1-7,560 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1930 contest.
July 23 - aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss dies
July 29 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.

August

August 3 - * The Imperial Japanese Navy practices dive bombing for the first time, using fighters to sink the retired protected cruiser Akashi with 4-kg (8.8-lb) practice bombs in Tokyo Bay.
August 8 - End of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
August 23 - Ford National Reliability Air Tour starts in Chicago.
August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey

September

September 3 - Ford National Reliability Air Tour finishes in Chicago. Harry Russell takes first place, and Eddie August Schneider finishes in eight place, but wins the Great Lakes Trophy.

October

October 5 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
October 25 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.

First flights

RWD-4 (spring)
Nakajima E4N (date unknown)

April

RWD-3
April 29 - Polikarpov I-5

May

May 6 - Boeing Monomail
May 16 - Blériot 110

June

June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

July

July 18 - Blackburn Sydney

September

September 12 - Taylor E-2
September 24 - Short Rangoon

October

October 5 - Junkers Ju 52
PZL P.7

November

November 14 - Handley Page HP.42
November 18 - Boeing XP-9
November 25 - Fairey Hendon

December

December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6

Entered service

1930 in Aviation Pictures

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