1925 in aviation

none December 2010 thumb|319x319px|The areas of the world covered by commercial aviation in 1925 in aviation 19th Century 20th century 21st century 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1890s 1900–19091900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Aviation This is a list of aviation-related events from 1925. Events In the United Kingdom, the first Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadrons are formed. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1925/1925%20-%200663.html Auxiliary Air Force 876 XVII 663–664 Flight 8 October 1925 24 April 2015 The Eberhart Steel Products Company of Buffalo, New York, forms an aircraft design and manufacturing subsidiary, the Eberhart Aeroplane and Motor Company.Angelucci Enzo The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present New York Orion Books 1987 978-0-517-56588-9191 Summer 1925 – Two Breguet 19 G.R. aircraft owned by the Japanese Asahi Shimbun newspaper group fly from Tokyo, Japan, to Paris, France.Donald David The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft New York Barnes & Noble Books 1997 0-7607-0592-5187 January January 1 – The French airline CIDNA is formed. February February 3–4 – In a Breguet 19 G.R., the French aviators Henri Lemaître and Ludovic Arrachart set a world distance record, flying 3,166 km mi on from Étampes, Paris, France, to Villa Cisneros, Spanish Sahara.187 February 12 – Sabena establishes the first airline connection between Belgium and the Belgian Congo, pioneering a long-haul route to Léopoldville.Daniel Clifton Chronicle of the 20th Century https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00moun registration Mount Kisco Chronicle Publications 1987 0-942191-01-3 322 February 24 – Joseph Leonard Maries White, a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with 22 victories, dies in a crash following a mid-air collision with another aircraft at Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada.https://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/white4.php Joseph White theaerodrome.comhttps://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36029 Canadian Airmen Die In Mid-Air Collision theaerodrome.com March March 1 – T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mahoney establish a scheduled air service — Los Angeles-San Diego Air Line — between San Diego and Los Angeles, California. http://www.historynet.com/bf-mahoney-the-mystery-man-behind-the-spirit-of-st-louis.htm Tekulsky Joseph T. B.F. Mahoney: The Mystery Man Behind the Spirit of St. Louis 12 June 2006 Historynet November 19, 2011 (originally published in Aviation History. FAA HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY, 1926-1996 https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/history/chronolog_history/b-chron.pdf faa.gov Federal Aviation Administration 18 May 2026 It is the first scheduled passenger air service operated wholly over the contiguous United States and throughout the year. March 2 – Huff Daland Dusters is established in Macon, Georgia, in the United States as the world's first aerial crop dusting company. It will become Delta Air Service in 1928, then Delta Air Corporation in 1930, and then Delta Air Lines in 1945.https://www.deltamuseum.org/exhibits/delta-history/founding Founding www.deltamuseum.org 2019-10-02 2019-10-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20191001235928/https://www.deltamuseum.org/exhibits/delta-history/founding dead March 22 – A Junkers F 13 flying in the Soviet Union from Tiflis to Sukhumi catches fire in mid-air and crashes, killing all five people aboard. The dead include the high-ranking Soviet security officials Georgi Atarbekov, Alexander Miasnikian, and Solomon Mogilevsky. Eyewitnesses report seeing people jump to their deaths to escape the burning plane.http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1020990 ru:"Нелепая и чудовищная катастрофа" Absurd and Monstrous Catastrophes Kommersant Yevgeny Zhirnov 8 September 2008 14 February 2015 ru April April The first in-flight movie is shown on a scheduled flight: First National's The Lost World on Imperial Airways service from London to the Continent.Patrick Robertson Film Facts London Aurum 2001 978-1-85410-654-4 The Prix Solex, a competition in France offering a prize of 55,000 FF requiring a flight of about 120 km mi off us from Paris to Rouen using less than 3 kg lb off of gasoline and oil, takes place. Maurice Drouhin wins in a Salmson 3 Ad-powered Farman Aviette. April 13 - The first scheduled air freight service begins in the United States. April 15 - Ukvozdukhput/Ukrainian Airways begins services in Ukraine.2023-10-05 Aeroflot Airline Safety, Fleet Size & Destinations Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aeroflot 2023-11-13 www.britannica.com en April 19 – T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mahoney found Ryan Airline Company at Dutch Flats Airport in San Diego, California. April 21 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli depart Rome on a 201-day flight in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello that will take them to Australia and Japan before they return to Rome in November. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1925/1925%20-%200644.html?search=italian%20flight%20to%20tokyo Italian Flight to Tokyo Accomplished Flight 1 October 1925 644 https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1925/1925%20-%200756.html?search=rome%20tokyo%20rome Rome-Tokyo-Rome: Marquis de Pinedo's Grand Air Tour Successfully Concluded Flight 12 November 1925 756 May May 1 - The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is established under the command of Lieutenant General Kinichi Yasumitsu. It has 3,700 personnel and about 500 aircraft.Francillon René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War Annapolis Naval Institute Press 1979 978-0-87021-313-7 30 May 4 – Italian legislation sets the peacetime strength of the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) at 182 squadrons, with 78 of them assigned directly to the air force, 69 to the Italian Royal Army, and 35 to the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy). The army and navy are given temporary command of the squadrons assigned to them for the length of time it takes to train them for wartime operations.Gooch, John, Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940, Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 978-0-521-85602-7, p. 58. May 12 – Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, a German World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories, dies in a plane crash.Van Wyngarden Greg Pfalz Scout Aces of World War 1 2006 Osprey Publishing 978-1-84176-998-1 75 May 23 – Rudolf Rienau, a German World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories, dies in a flying accident at Staaken, Germany.Franks Norman VanWyngarden Greg Fokker D VII Aces of World War 1 Part 1 2003 Osprey Publishing United Kingdom 1-84176-533-3 73 June June 10 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic, Ernesto Campanelli, arrive at Melbourne, Australia, after a 50-day flight from Rome in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello during which they have made 27 intermediate stops without serious mishaps. They will remain in Melbourne for 36 days before continuing their journey through Australia and to Japan. June 13 – French Navy aviation pioneer Capitaine de frégate (Frigate Captain) Paul Teste and Lieutenant de vaisseau (Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant) Amanrich attempt a familiarization flight in the Amiot 120 prototype bomber they plan to use in a future Paris-to-Karachi flight, taking off from Villacoublay airfield at Villacoublay, France. Their plane strikes a tree just after takeoff, crashes, and bursts into flames. Amanrich is unharmed, but Teste suffers horrible burns and dies in agony at a hospital in Versailles a few hours later. 15 February 2011 Capitaine de frégate Paul Teste Frigate Captain Paul Teste http://www.ffaa.net/history/famous-pilots/teste/teste_fr.htm ffaa.net French Naval Aviation 3 May 2026 fr June 20 – Off New England, a United States Coast Guard Vought UO-1 becomes the first aircraft to pursue a rum-runner.http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/CGAviationHistory1916_1938.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20121012012530/http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/CGAviationHistory1916_1938.pdf dead 2012-10-12 A Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation: The Early Years, 1915-1938 June 24 – Off New England, a U.S. Coast Guard Vought UO-1 becomes the first aircraft to assist in the capture of a rum-runner. July July 1 – The United States Post Office Department inaugurates 24-hour transcontinental air mail service. Previously, mailplanes had not flown at night and trains had carried the mail during the hours of darkness, but the completion of a coast-to-coast system of lighted beacons has allowed night flying to become practical along the entire route. The day-and-night flying allows the transcontinental air mail service to deliver mail notably faster than train-only service for the first time.Jensen, Richard, "The Suicide Club," Aviation History, May 2017, pp. 63, 64, 65. July 13 - Western Air Express, the future Western Airlines, is founded. It will begin flight operations in April 1926. July 16 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli resume their flight from Italy to East Asia and the Western Pacific, flying from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia, in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello after a 36-day stay in Melbourne. They had left Rome 86 days earlier and made 28 intermediate stops before arriving in Sydney. They will remain in Sydney for 21 days before continuing their journey through Australia and to Japan. August The Italian government's Commission for Aeronautics is replaced by a new Ministry of Aeronautics. The Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force), formerly subordinate to the commission, is subordinated to the new ministry.Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, 0-87021-907-3, p. 252. August 6 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli resume their flight from Italy to East Asia and the Western Pacific, departing Sydney, Australia, in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello on their way to Tokyo. August 7–9 – Flying in France on the route Chartres–Étampes–Toussus-le-Noble–Chartres, the French aviators Jules Landry and Maurice Drouhin set a closed-circuit distance record of 4,400 km mi off us in 45 hours 11 minutes 59 seconds in a Farman F.62. August 31 – Two United States Navy Naval Aircraft Factory PN-9 flying boats take off from San Francisco, California, in an attempt to make the first transpacific flight from North America to the Hawaiian Islands, planning to arrive on September 1 after an overnight flight expected to last about 26 hours. The first PN-9 to depart loses oil pressure and is forced down 300 mi nmi km from San Francisco; the destroyer William Jones DD-308 rescues its crew and tows it back to port. The second plane to depart, piloted by Commander John Rodgers, is forced down in the Pacific Ocean on September 1 after flying 1,841.12 mi nmi km nonstop. Rodgers and his three crewmen then sail the aircraft as a boat 450 nmi 0 off in farther toward Hawaii before the U.S. Navy submarine R-4 SS-81 picks them up 10 nmi 0 off north of Kauai on September 10. Although unsuccessful, their flight sets a world nonstop distance record for Class C seaplanes which will stand until 1930."Flight to Hawaiian Islands," in James Langland (ed.), The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1926. Chicago: Chicago Daily News Company, 1925; pg. 629.http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/chronology-of-aviation-in-hawaii/1920-1929 Aviation Hawaii: 1920-1929 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii September The Czechoslovak Avia BH-21R racer wins the Czechoslovak national air races, covering the 200 km mi on course at an average speed of 300.59 km/h mph on.72 September 1 – After modifications, the aircraft carrier Furious 47 6 returns to service with the Royal Navy as the first ship ever to be equipped with a round-downSturtivant Ray British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990 https://archive.org/details/britishnavalavia00rays registration Annapolis Naval Institute Press 1990 0-87021-026-2215 Located at the after end of her flight deck, the round-down, which improves air flow and gives pilots landing aboard Furious greater confidence, will become standard on aircraft carriers.12 September 2 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah ZR-1 breaks up in a storm and crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 of her crew. Twenty-nine crew members survive. September 3 – The Spanish Navy aviation ship Dédalo, the only ship ever built capable of operating airships, balloons, and seaplanes, accompanies a Spanish fleet to Morocco to participate in the Rif War. Her aircraft and one of the airships she operates support the Spanish campaign to capture Ajir, which falls on October 2. She is the only European aviation ship to see combat between the end of the Russian Civil War and the beginning of World War II.Layman R. D. Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922 Annapolis 1989 978-0-87021-210-9103, 105 September 15 – The Bolivian airline Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano is founded. September 23 – The Bolivian airline Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano begins flight operations, flying a Junkers F.13 which takes off from Cochabamba, Bolivia. September 26 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli arrive in Tokyo in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello after a 58-day flight from Sydney, Australia, during which they have made 19 intermediate stops. They had departed Rome 158 days earlier and made 48 intermediate stops, including lengthy stays in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, on their way to Tokyo, all without an engine change or any serious mishaps. September 28 – The first Ford National Reliability Air Tour begins. Of the 20 entrants, 17 start, taking off from Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, to fly a 1,900 mi nmi km 2 on course with stops in 10 cities.Flight – The Aircraft Engineer and Airships, "The Ford Reliability Tour" November 26, 1925 The participants include Walter Beech and Earl Rowland. The tour cross-markets Ford Motor Company and its Stout Metal Airplane Division and showcases Henry Ford's new interest in aviation.The Public Image of Henry Ford An American Folk Hero and His Company David L. Lewis On September 27, The New York Times had reported, "The object of the tour is to 'sell' aviation by proving that airplanes can carry freight and passengers long distances safely and quickly." September 27, 1925 FORD PLANE FLY MONDAY.; Week's Reliability Tour Will Cover Seven Western States. https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/27/archives/ford-plane-fly-monday-weeks-reliability-tour-will-cover-seven.html The New York Times New York, New York 27 May 22, 2026 October October 366 or 30Thetford Owen British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 Sixth Annapolis Naval Institute Press 1991 1-55750-076-2 123 – The Royal Navy cruiser Vindictive launches a Fairey IIID floatplane by catapult. It is the first catapult launch of a standard British naval aircraft from a ship at sea.66 October 4 – The first Ford National Reliability Air Tour concludes with its return to Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Entrants have flown a 1,775 mi nmi km 0 on in ten legs, with stops in Chicago and Moline, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Joseph, Kansas City, and St. Louis, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio. Eleven entrants — including Walter Beech and Earl Rowland — receive perfect scores. The tour cross-markets Ford Motor Company and its Stout Metal Airplane Division, showcases Henry Ford's new interest in aviation, and demonstrates that airplanes can carry cargo and passengers safely and quickly over long distances.Phillips Edward April 17, 2015 Walter H. Beech and the Ford Reliability Tours – Air Tours https://kingairmagazine.com/article/walter-h-beech-and-the-ford-reliability-tours/ kingairmagazine.com King Air Magazine May 22, 2026 September 27, 1925 FORD PLANE FLY MONDAY.; Week's Reliability Tour Will Cover Seven Western States. https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/27/archives/ford-plane-fly-monday-weeks-reliability-tour-will-cover-seven.html The New York Times New York, New York 27 May 22, 2026 October 15 – The British airship R.33 successfully launches a de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird piloted by Flying Officer Campbell MacKenzie-Richards and Flying Officer Riggs in flight. October 16 – The Air Union Farman F.60 Goliath F-HMFU Île de France crashes at Wadhurst, East Sussex, England, during a scheduled passenger flight from England to Paris, France. Three of the six people aboard die and two suffer injuries.Air Accidents in the Fog 17 October 1925 12 44095 Dhttp://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19251016-0 Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description October 17 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli depart Tokyo in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello after a 21-day stay to begin the homeward leg of their flight from Rome to Australia and Tokyo and back again. The only engine change of what has so far been a 187-day, 49-stop flight has been made in Tokyo. October 18 Joseph Sadi-Lecointe wins the Beumont Cup, with a speed of 194 mph km/h on. American professional baseball player Marv Goodwin of the Cincinnati Reds is seriously injured during reserve duty with the United States Army Air Service when the plane he is piloting during a training exercise goes into a tailspin at an altitude of 200 ft m off us and crash-lands at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. He will die of his injuries on October 21, the first professional athlete killed as the result of a plane crash.http://planecrashinfo.com/famous1920s.htm planecrashinfo.com Famous People Who Died in Aviation Accidents: 1920s 2015-12-22 2015-12-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20151211033839/http://planecrashinfo.com/famous1920s.htm dead October 19 – Frank T. Courtney makes the first flight in the United Kingdom by a rotary-wing aircraft, demonstrating the Cierva C.4 autogiro for the Royal Aircraft Establishment near Farnborough Airfield. October 25 – A storm with 80 mph 0 on winds strikes Bay Shore Park in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, where the United States Navy has moored 23 Curtiss SC-1 biplane floatplanes, planning to fly them in an air show demonstration during the next day's Schneider Trophy race. The gale breaks the 3 in on mooring lines of 17 of the floatplanes, which then are dashed against seawalls or the shore. Seven of the planes are destroyed and 10 damaged. The 26 October afternoon edition of the Baltimore Evening Sun has the headline "Plane Disaster in Harbor Called Hard Blow to Navy" and quotes United States Army Air Service Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, who calls the loss of the CS-1s "staggering" and blames it on U.S. Navy mismanagement of its aviation program."Air and Auto Races Called Off by Rain— Schneider Cup Dash And Laurel Contest Postponed", The Evening Sun (Baltimore), October 24, 1925, p.1"ATLANTIC GALE WRECKS 17 COSTLY PLANES— Begin Inquiry Into New Blow at Navy Bureau", Akron (O.) Beacon Journal, October 26, 1925, p.1Small, Robert T., "Plane Disaster in Harbor Called Hard Blow to Navy", The Evening Sun (Baltimore), October 26, 1925, p.1Gough, Michael, "Doolittle Wins In Baltimore", Airpower, November 2005, Volume 35, Number 11, page 50. October 26 – The 1925 Schneider Trophy race is flown at Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. Jimmy Doolittle of the United States Army Air Service wins in a Curtiss R3C-2 at an average speed of 374.2 km/h mph on. November In mid-month, Farman Aviation Works test pilot Louis Bossoutrot sets several load-related world aviation records in the prototype of the Farman F.140 Super Goliath, reaching an altitude of 4,990 m ft off us 0 with a useful load of 2,000 kg lb off 0, an altitude of 3,586 m ft off us 0 with a useful load of 5,000 kg lb off 0 and a flight duration of 1 hour 12 minutes 21 seconds, and an altitude of 2,000 m ft off us 0 with a greatest useful load of 6,000 kg lb off 0. November 7 – Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli return to Rome, completing a 201-day flight covering around 35,000 mi km off us in the SIAI S.16ter flying boat Gennariello. Departing Rome on April 21, their outbound route had taken to them to Brindisi in Italy; Leros in Greece; Baghdad in Iraq; Bushehr and Chabar in Persia; Karachi, Bombay, Cocanada, and Calcutta in British India; Akyab, Rangoon, Tavoy, and Mergui in Burma; Phuket in Siam; Penang in British Malaya; Singapore; Batavia, Surabaya, Sumbawa, and Kupang in the Netherlands East Indies, and Broome, Carnarvon, Perth, Bunbury, Albany, Israelite Bay, Adelaide, and Melbourne, Australia, where they had arrived on June 10 and spent just over five weeks before proceeding to Sydney, where they had arrived on July 16 and spent another three weeks. Resuming their flight on August 6, they had visited Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville, Innisfail, and Cooktown, and Thursday Island, Australia; Merauke, Dobo, Amboina, and Menado in the Netherlands East Indies; Cebu, Atimonan, Manila, and Aparri in the Philippines; Tamsui on Formosa; Shanghai in China; Mokpo in Korea; and Yamakawa and Kagoshima, Japan, before arriving in Tokyo on September 26. After a three-week stay there, they had begun their return journey on October 17, a 15,000-mile (24,155-kilometer) trip that they make in only 22 days, with stops at Kagoshima; Shanghai; Hong Kong; Haiphong and Saigon in French Indochina; Bangkok in Siam; Rangoon; Calcutta, Benares, Delhi, and Karachi in British India; Bandar Abbas in Persia; Baghdad; Alexandretta in Turkey; and Taranto in Italy before arriving in Rome. The entire journey, made without special preparations for support at any of the stops and involving two long flights – of 600 and 1,200 mi km – across the dry land of the Indian subcontinent in a non-amphibious flying boat, proceeds without major incident and requires only one engine change, carried out at Tokyo. Flight describes the journey as "the most extensive aerial tour on record." November 20 – Germany holds a state funeral in Berlin for fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, the top-scoring ace of World War I with 80 aerial victories. He had been shot down and killed on 21 April 1918.Kilduff Peter The Red Baron: Beyond the Legend London Cassell 1994 0-304-35207-1 161 November 26 – James Anderson Slater, a British World War I flying ace credited with 24 aerial victories, is one of two men killed in the crash of a Sopwith Snipe trainer at Pewsey, Wiltshire, England.https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1925/1925%20-%200797.html R.A.F. Flying Accidents 884 XVII 797 Flight 3 December 1925 http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1920s/Casualties_1925.htm Casualties 1925 M. B. Barrass Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation 2015 December December 4 – Georg Strasser, a German World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories, dies in a flying accident while working as a test pilot for Junkers.Bailleux Yves Cony Christophe amp As allemands 14/18: Georg Strasser et la Jasta 17 Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire November 2001 104 50–56 German Aces of the Great War: Georg Strasser and Jasta 17 fr 1243-8650Saintes Philippe Un as allemand 14/19: Georg Strasser Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire October 2001 103 A German Ace of the Great War: Georg Strasser 54–60 fr 1243-8650 First flights Abrial A-2 Vautour Aero A.11 Amiot 120 Bernard SIMB AB 14Liron Jean Les avions Bernard 1990 Éditions Larivière Paris 2-84890-065-2 Collection Docavia 31 180, 224 fr Curtiss Carrier Pigeon Curtiss Lark Detroit G1 Gull Dewoitine D.14 (between 20 January and 4 February) Dewoitine D.19 Dewoitine D.21 Farman F.130 Farman F.170 Jabiru Grigorovich SUVP Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing Westland Yeovil January Avia BH-2172 January 3 - Fairey Fox January 5 - Short Singapore February Gloster Gamecock Latécoère 15 Thomas-Morse TM-24424 February 22 – de Havilland MothMondey David The Complete Illustrated History of the Worlds Aircraft Secaucus Chartwell Books, Inc. 1978 0-89009-771-2 30 https://archive.org/details/completeillustra00mond/page/30 March Avro 563 Andover March 10 – Supermarine Southampton April April 22 – Junkers J 29 May May 2 - Douglas C-1 May 10 - Armstrong Whitworth Atlas May 26 - Bäumer B II Sausewind June June 4 — Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9 July July 6 - Douglas DAM July 7 - Boeing 40 July 29 - Blériot 155 August FBA 21 August 24 – Supermarine S.4 August 29 – Gloster III September September 11 – Curtiss R3C-1124 November Consolidated NY-1"The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft" cover Editors: Paul Eden & Soph Moeng, (Amber Books Ltd. Bradley's Close, 74-77 White Lion Street, London, NI 9PF, 2002, 0-7607-3432-1), 1152 pp. November 9 - Fairey Firefly (biplane) November 26 - Tupolev TB-1 December Curtiss P-2 Hawk131 Curtiss XP-2, a modified Curtiss P-2 Hawk131 Entered service January Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane with Japan Aviation Company Ltd May May 15 – Junkers G.23 with Swedish Air Lines August Curtiss F6C with the United States Navy August 17 – Curtiss P-1 Hawk with 1st Pursuit Group, United States Army Air Service December Handley Page Hyderabad with the Royal Air Force's No. 9 (Bomber) Squadron, last RAF heavy bomber of wooden construction to enter squadron service http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/not-quite-extinct/handley-page-hyderabad-and-hinaidi.aspx rafmuseum.org.uk Handley Page Hyderabad and Hinaidi Retirements May – Westland Weasel by the Royal Air Force Late 1925 – Westland Walrus by the Royal Air Force Births March 20 – David Warren, Australian aviation scientist, inventor of the cockpit voice recorder (d. 2010) References Category:Aviation by year