1930 In Aviation

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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 combine their air arms into a separate, independent command.

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

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 29 - British Airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.

August

August 8 - end of the '' Challenge 1930 '' contest, won by Fritz Morzik .

August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930 to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes.

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)

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

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