1935 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1935:

Events

Employing aerial refueling, a sustained flight record of 653 hours 33 minutes (27 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes) is set. It remains unbroken.
Imperial Japanese Navy dive bombers practice against a full-size mock-up of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3) at the Kashima bombing range.
The Soviet Union has the largest bomber force in the world.

January

January 11-12 - Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across part of the Pacific from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
January 15 - Maj James Doolittle establishes a record for a transport flight across the United States, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in 11 hours 59 minutes.

February

February 3 - Hugo Junkers dies
February 12 - USS Macon airship sinks off Point Sur, California.
February 22 - Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 minutes.

March

March 9 - the Nazi Government in Germany announces the formation of the Luftwaffe, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles
March 28 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.

April

April 1 - Swissair begins services between Zx¼rich and London
April 13 - Qantas and Imperial Airways provide regular connecting flights between Brisbane, Australia, and London
April 16-17 - A Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 makes the first airline flight from the continental US to Hawaii.

May

May 18 - the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky crashes near Tushino after a mid-air collision. Fifty-six people are killed, making it the worst air crash at this time.

June

June 24 - One Ford Trimotor of Servicio Aéreo Colombiano (SACO) crashed with another Ford Trimotor of Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aéreo (SCADTA) in Medellx­n, Colombia. Fifteen people were killed including the world famous tango singer Carlos Gardel.
June 25 - United States Coast Guard Lieutenant Richard L. Burke sets a world seaplane speed record carrying a 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) load over a 100 kilometres (62 mi) course of 280.105 kilometres per hour (174.049 mph) flying a Grumman JF-2 Duck.
June 27 - United States Coast Guard Lieutenant Richard L. Burke sets a world seaplane alitude record of 5,449.050 metres (17,877.46 ft) carrying a 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) load flying a Grumman JF-2 Duck.

July

July 1 - The Flying Keys set endurance record by flying a Curtiss Robin non-stop for 653 hours, 34 minutes

August

August 5 - Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and his passenger Will Rogers are killed in a crash in Alaska.

October

October 1 - The first company to bear the name British Airways Ltd is formed, by the merger of Hillman's Airways, Spartan Air Lines and United Airways Ltd.
October 30 - The Boeing Model 299, prototype of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, crashes at Wright Field, Ohio, killing Boeing test pilot Leslie Tower and United States Army Air Corps test pilot Ployer Peter Hill.

November

November 8 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Tommy Pethybridge in the Lady Southern Cross disappear over the Andaman Sea, never to be seen again.
November 11 - A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 feet (22,066 m)
November 11-13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours from England to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percival Gull. She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.
November 22 - Pan Am commences the first trans-Pacific airmail service, flying a Martin M-130 from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam.

December

December 27 - the USAAC uses aerial bombardment to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa, Hawaii that is threatening Hilo's waterworks.

First flights

February

February 24 - Heinkel He 111

March

March 24 - Avro Anson military prototype K4771

April

Douglas DB-1, prototype of the B-18 Bolo
April 1 - The NA-16 prototype of the T-6 Texan/Harvard
April 12 - Bristol Britain First, prototype of the Bristol Blenheim

May

May 19 - Consolidated XPBY-1 later named Catalina
May 28 - Messerschmitt Bf 109
May 31 - Fairchild Model 45

June

June 19 - Vickers Wellesley
June 23 - Bristol Bombay

July

July 11 - Yakovlev AIR-19, prototype of the Yakovlev UT-2
July 17 - Boeing model 299, prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress
July 27 - Miles Falcon Six

August

August 8 - Morane-Saulnier MS.405
August 12 - De Havilland Dragonfly

September

September 17 - Junkers Ju 87

November

November 6 - Hawker Hurricane K5083

December

December 17 - Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3
December 18 - Miles Nighthawk

Entered service

November

Hawker Hind

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