1937 In Aviation

	Cp	19th Century
	C	20th century
	Cf	21st century
	Yp1	1934
	Yp2	1935
	Yp3	1936
	Year	1937
	Ya1	1938
	Ya2	1939
	Ya3	1940
	Dp3	1900s
	Dp2	1910s
	Dp1	1920s
	D	1930s
	Dn1	1940s
	Dn2	1950s
	Dn3	1960s

This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1937 :

EVENTS

March

March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new Flying Boat base at Hythe, Hampshire .

April

April 9 - The '' Kamikaze '' arrives at Croydon Airport in London - it is the first Japan ese-built aircraft to fly to Europe .

April 12 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first Jet Engine designed to power an aircraft at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England .

April 26 - Luftwaffe bombers of Legion Condor attack Guernica

April 30 - Nationalist Spanish Battleship ''España'' sunk by air attack by Republican forces.

May

May 6 - German Zeppelin ''Hindenburg'' caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey .

June

June 18 - 20 , Valery Chkalov , G.F.Baidukov, A.V.Belyakov flew from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington , USA via the North Pole

July

July 3 , Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear on a flight from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island , and are never seen again.

July 3- 6 - Pan Am and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic in preparation for the commencement of regular services.

July 12 - 14 - Mikhail Gromov , A. B. Yumashev, and S. A. Danilin establish a new distance record of 10,148 km (6,303 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto, California , USA via the North Pole .

August

August 15 - Lufthansa begins Seaplane services between the Azores and New York with the assistance of Seaplane Tender s stationed along the route.

November

November 16 - A Sabena Junkers Ju 52 en route from Cologne, Germany to London via Brussels crashed near Ostend with 11 on board. All aboard were killed, including the Grand Duke and eight-months pregnant Grand Duchess of Hesse and their two small sons.

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 13 - Fairey Fulmar

February

February 9 - Blackburn Skua

March

Miles Magister

March 10 - Hawker Henley

May

May 7 - Lockheed XC-35

May 20 - De Havilland Albatross

Arado Ar 196

June

June 18 - De Havilland Don

June 19 - Airspeed Oxford

June 22 - De Havilland Moth Minor

July

July 27 - Short Mayo Flying-boat / seaplane composite

July 27 - Focke-Wulf Fw 200 prototype ''D-AERE''

July 29 - Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra

August

August 11 - Boulton Paul Defiant prototype ''K 8310''

September

September 1 - Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

October

October 16 - Short S.25 ''K 4774'', prototype of the Short Sunderland

December

Brewster B-139, prototype of the Brewster Buffalo

December 24 - Macchi C.200

ENTERED SERVICE

February

Gloster Gladiator with No. 3 and No. 72 Squadron RAF