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none thumb|right | alt=1926 Westland Widgeon (Br) and Ford Trimotor. | 1926 Westland Widgeon (Br) and Ford Trimotor. in aviation 19th Century 20th century 21st century 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1890s 1900–19091900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Aviation This is a list of aviation-related events from 1926: Events Award of the Harmon Trophy begins. A set of three trophies is awarded annually to the worlds outstanding aviator, aviatrix (female aviator), and aeronaut (balloon or dirigible aviator) for the year, and a fourth trophy (the National Trophy) is awarded to the outstanding aviator for the year in each of the 21 member countries of the International League of Aviators. Fiat acquires the Società Anonima Aeronautica Ansaldo aircraft manufacturing subsidiary from the Gio. Ansaldo & C. shipbuilding company and combines it with its own Società Italiana Aviazione subsidiary to form a new Società Anonima Aeronautica d'Italia subsidiary for the design and production of aircraft.Chant, Chris, The Worlds Great Bombers, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000, 978-0-7607-2012-7, p. 48. The first known reforestation of land by aircraft is carried by airplanes operating from Wheeler Field on Oahu in the Territory of Hawaii.Aviation Hawaii: 1920-1929 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii Harold Frederick Pitcairn founds the Pitcairn Aircraft Company. It later will become the Autogiro Company of America. Summer 1926 – A Lieutenant Jira of Czechoslovakia flies Avia B.9.11 L-BONG 1,800 km mi on from Prague to Paris and back at an average speed of 131.2 km/h mph on, a notable achievement at the time for an aircraft of the B.9s class.Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, 978-0-7607-0592-6, p. 72. January January 6 – Deutsche Luft Hansa is formed by the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr. January 22 – A Spanish four-man crew led by Spanish Air Force Major Ramón Franco – the brother of future Spanish dictator Francisco Franco – and including Captain Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz takes off from the Rio Tinto at Palos de Moguer, Spain, to begin a seven-stop flight to Buenos Aires in the Dornier Do J Wal ("Whale") flying boat Plus Ultra ("Farther Still"). After flying low past the Christopher Columbus Monument in Huelva, Spain, they make an uneventful 806-mile (1,298-km) flight to their first stop at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.O'Connor, Derek, "The Other Franco," Aviation History, January 2018, pp. 56, 57. January 26 – Ramón Franco and his crew complete the second leg of their Spain-to-Buenos Aires flight, flying 1,081 mi km from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to Porto Praia in the Cape Verde Islands in 9 hours 50 minutes.O'Connor, Derek, "The Other Franco," Aviation History, January 2018, p. 57. January 30 – Ramón Franco and his crew complete the third and longest leg of their Spain-to-Buenos Aires flight, flying 1,429 mi km from Barrera de Inferno in the Cape Verde Islands to Fernando de Noronha in 12 hours at an altitude of 1,000 ft m off us. It is the second-longest nonstop flight in history – exceeded only by a 1,890-mile North Atlantic Ocean crossing in a Vickers Vimy on 14-15 June 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown – and they become the first aviators to cross the South Atlantic Ocean using only one aircraft. Rough weather forces them to spend the night on their flying boat Plus Ultra before they can dock at Fernando de Noronha. January 31 – Forced to throw their gear and luggage overboard to remain airborne after an in-flight engine failure, Ramón Franco and his crew complete the fourth leg of their Spain-to-Buenos Aires flight, flying 335 mi km from Fernando de Noronha to Recife, Brazil, where they receive a hero's welcome.O'Connor, Derek, "The Other Franco," Aviation History, January 2018, pp. 57-58. February February 1 – Controversial United States Army airpower advocate Billy Mitchell resigns from the United States Army Air Service with the permanent rank of colonel.Colonel Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF. Maxwell AFB. American Airpower Biography: Billy Mitchell https://web.archive.org/web/20080924000311/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/mitch.html September 24, 2008 February 4 – Spanish Air Force Major Ramón Franco, copilot/navigator Captain Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, and their crew complete the fifth leg of their Spain–to–Buenos Aires flight in the Dornier Do J Wal ("Whale") flying boat Plus Ultra ("Farther Still"), flying 1,302 mi km from Recife, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro in 12 hours 16 minutes. Franco is at the controls for the entire flight. So many boats meet them that they have difficulty landing in Guanabara Bay without colliding with one.O'Connor, Derek, "The Other Franco," Aviation History, January 2018, p. 58. February 9 – Ramón Franco and his crew complete the sixth leg of their Spain-to-Buenos Aires flight, flying 1,277 mi km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Montevideo, Uruguay, in 12 hours 5 minutes. February 10 – Ramón Franco and his crew complete their Spain-to-Buenos Aires flight, flying the journey's seventh leg, a 136 mi km on flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Buenos Aires where they receive another welcome by exuberant crowds. Over 20 days, they have completed the 6,300-mile (10,145-km) trip from Spain in just under 51 hours of flying time, a considerable achievement for the time. Franco's plans to fly back to Spain in Plus Ultra via Chile, Mexico, Cuba, and the Azores will be cancelled when the Government of Spain opts to present the plane to the Government of Argentina as a gift. Plus Ultras crew instead will return to Spain aboard the Argentine Navy protected cruiser Buenos Aires as Spanish national heroes. February 12 – Straying 2 mi km in off course while flying a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon for the United States Post Office on the overnight airmail delivery route from Chicago to New York City, pioneering American pilot Art Smith dies when he crashes into a grove of trees near Montpelier, Ohio.http://www.airmailpioneers.org/Pilots/Fatalities.htm FATALITIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY Air Mail Pioneers April 19, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110518180120/http://www.airmailpioneers.org/Pilots/Fatalities.htm May 18, 2011http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207499 https://web.archive.org/web/20130524001952/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207499 dead May 24, 2013 Arago: Employees Smithsonian Institution April 19, 2012 He is the second U.S. overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721679,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110131195935/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721679,00.html dead January 31, 2011 Time Pilot Smith 1926-02-22 2012-04-01 March March 1 – Four Royal Air Force Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2.Taylor 1988, p.102–103. March 4 – In Hawaii, two United States Army Air Service Loening OA-1 amphibians take off from Luke Field on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor on Oahu, fly to Kauai and land in a new harbor there, then return to Oahu, refuel, and fly on to Hilo on the island of Hawaii, making the final Oahu-to-Hilo leg of the flight in a record 2 hours 4 minutes. The Army Air Service intends the flight to demonstrate both the adaptability of amphibian aircraft and the practicality of interisland flight in Hawaii. In flying from Kauai to Hilo, the flight is hailed in Hawaii as the first to link all of Hawaii's major islands by air.Horvat William J., Lieutenant Colonel 1966 Above the Pacific Aero Publishers, Inc. 59 https://aviation.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Above-the-Pacific-by-Lieutenant-Colonel-William-J.-Horvat-1966.pdf 3 June 2026 March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts. March 24 – The Cierva Autogiro Company is founded in the United Kingdom. April April 1 – The Italian airline Società Italiana Servizi Aerei begins operations linking Trieste, Venice, Pavia, and Turin with CANT 10 flying boats. April 6 – Varney Speed Lines begins operations in the U.S. It will later become Continental Airlines. April 7 – The Italian airline Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA) begins fight operations, offering flying boat service on the Genoa–Rome–Naples–Palermo route. April 10 – Three United States Army Air Service aircraft take photographs of an eruption of Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, providing valuable scientific information. One of them, a de Havilland DH.4, makes four flights directly over the crater and — although it experiences severe buffeting and its crew becomes uncomfortably hot — and completes four flights of two hours' duration each. April 17 – Western Air Express (the future Western Airlines) begins operations with a contract mail flight 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 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles, using a Douglas M-2. The airline will begin passenger services a month later. April 30 – Bessie Coleman, the first licensed African-American female pilot, is killed along with mechanic William Wills, who was piloting the plane, after they crash as a result of a wrench that Wills accidentally left loose getting stuck in the control gears.Linda Barr Bessie Coleman: Pioneer Pilot Columbus, Ohio Zaner-Bloser 2004 21 978-0-73672-039-7 May May 1 – Deutsche Luft Hansa begins the first night passenger airline service, with domestic flights in Germany between Berlin and Königsberg employing Junkers G 24 aircraft.German Aviation History Homepage: Junkers G 24 https://web.archive.org/web/20100413124920/http://hugojunkers.pytalhost.com/ju_g24_a1.htm 2010-04-13 May 4 – The Stinson Aircraft Corporation is incorporated. May 6 – Flying a Blackburn Dart, Flight Lieutenant Gerald Boyce makes the first night deck landing in history, landing aboard the British aircraft carrier Furious 47 6 off the south coast of England.Sturtivant, Ray, British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, 0-87021-026-2, p. 215. May 9 – Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first flight over the North Pole in a Fokker VIIa-3m. May 11–14 - Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitzbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska, three days later. May 20 – The Air Commerce Act becomes law in the United States. It creates an Aeronautics Branch (the predecessor of the Federal Aviation Administration) within the United States Department of Commerce, vesting that entity with regulatory powers to ensure civil air safety, including testing and licensing pilots, issuing certificates to guarantee the airworthiness of aircraft, making and enforcing safety rules, certifying aircraft, establishing airways, operating and maintaining aids to air navigation, and investigating accidents and incidents in aviation. It also directs that airways in the United States be charted for the first time, and assigns the responsibility to chart them to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.noaa.gov NOAA History: NOAA Legacy Timeline 1900-1969 May 23 – Western Air Express (the future Western Airlines) becomes one of the first U.S. airlines to offer regular passenger service, beginning flights from Los Angeles, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, via Las Vegas, Nevada. May 24 – The U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) holds its first annual manufacturers' conference, which takes place at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory at Langley Field, Virginia, as a modest, one-day event with 46 attendees. By 1936, it will grow into a two-day event with more than 300 attendees each day.Engineering Science and the Development of the NACA Low-Drag Engine Cowling https://www.nasa.gov/history/SP-4219/Chapter1.html 2024-09-17 www.nasa.gov June June 20 – The United States Coast Guard opens the first permanent Coast Guard Air Stations.A Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation: The Early Years, 1915-1938.Coast Guard Aviation History. June 26 – Flying a Potez 28, Ludovic Arrachart and his brother Paul depart Paris. By the time a broken fuel pipe forces them to land at RAF Shaibah near Basra, Iraq, 26 hours 30 minutes later, they will have set a new world aviation nonstop distance record of 4,313 km mi on. June 30 – Alan Cobham sets out on a round trip from England to Australia in a de Havilland DH.50. He will arrive back in London on October 1 and receive a knighthood for his accomplishment. July July 2 The United States Army Air Service becomes the United States Army Air Corps. In accordance with the redesignation of its parent service, the Air Service Tactical School at Langley Field in Virginia is renamed the Air Corps Tactical School. An airplane drops tree seeds over a burned area of Hawaii in the first recorded instance of reforestation by airplane. July 3 – The United States Congress authorizes the President of the United States to detail U.S. Army Air Corps officers to the United States Department of Commerce for periods of not greater than one year to help promote civil aviation in the United States. July 16 – The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company inaugurates the first daily passenger air service between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., using three-engine Fokker monoplanes seating 10 passengers to make three flights in each direction each day. The service lasts five months. July 24 – Two Deutsche Luft Hansa Junkers G.24s leave Berlin to make a round-trip to Beijing. They will return on September 26. July 26 – During United States Navy experiments with the operation of seaplanes from a submarine equipped with an aircraft hangar, the submarine S-1 SS-105 carries out for the first time a full cycle of surfacing, removing the disassembled seaplane from its hangar, assembling it, launching it, retrieving it, disassembling it, stowing in its hangar, and submerging, on the Thames River at New London, Connecticut. July 30 – On his 63rd birthday, Henry Ford unveils the Ford Flivver, which he hopes will become a mass-produced "everyman's" aircraft, much as the Ford Model T had been manufactured as an "everyman's" vehicle."Entrepreneurs: The Planes; 1926 Ford Flivver." https://web.archive.org/web/20120804015458/http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/heroes/entrepreneurs/flivver.asp 2012-08-04 The Henry Ford Museum. Retrieved: August 4, 2012."Ford-EAA Flivver Chapter 159– 268." Air Venture Museum. Retrieved: August 3, 2012. August August 7 – The second Ford National Reliability Air Tour begins, with 25 contestants taking off from Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The tour cross-markets Ford Motor Company and its Stout Metal Airplane Division and showcases Henry Ford's interest in aviation. The event includes the unveiling of the prototype Ford Flivver, and the new Ford Trimotor participates, although it suffers a propeller failure that loosens its landing gear and one of its engines and makes a forced landing at Nova, Ohio. The tour uses a new scoring system for time to "stick" and "unstick" aircraft to the ground, helping to promote the use of brakes, which are unpopular at the time. Walter Beech and Vance Breese participate.The Public Image of Henry Ford An American Folk Hero and His Company David L. LewisSport Aviation July 1961 Robert F. Pauley The Ford FlivverForden, Lesley. The Ford Air Tours: 1925–1931. New Brighton Minnesota: Aviation Foundation of America, 2003, First edition 1972. No ISBN.Pitcairn http://www.nationalaviation.org/pitcairn-harold/ January 21, 2011 August 5, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110805141938/http://www.nationalaviation.org/pitcairn-harold/ deadPhillips 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 August 18 – Flying in bad weather on a scheduled passenger flight from Paris-Le Bourget Airport outside Paris to Croydon Airport in London with 15 people aboard, the Air Union Blériot 155 F-AIEB Wilbur Wright strikes the roof of a barn and crashes into haystacks near Hurst, Kent, south of Lympne Airport, killing its two crew members and two of its 13 passengers.http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/f-aaaa.pdf FRENCH PRE-WAR REGISTER Version 270609 Air Britain 14 January 2011Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description August 21 – The second Ford National Reliability Air Tour concludes with the competitors' return to Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, at the end of a 2,585 mi nmi km on 0 course that included stops at Kalamazoo, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. Paul, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; Wichita, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Moline, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana. Walter Beech is the overall winner of the competition in a Travel Air airplane. A Pitcairn PA-2 Sesquiwing wins in two aircraft classes.Pitcairn http://www.nationalaviation.org/pitcairn-harold/ January 21, 2011 August 5, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110805141938/http://www.nationalaviation.org/pitcairn-harold/ dead August 27 – United States Navy aviation pioneer Commander John Rodgers dies in the crash of a single-engine plane he is piloting when it suddenly spins into the Delaware River near the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A mechanic aboard the plane with him survives.Horvat William J., Lieutenant Colonel 1966 Above the Pacific Aero Publishers, Inc. 56 https://aviation.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Above-the-Pacific-by-Lieutenant-Colonel-William-J.-Horvat-1966.pdf 3 June 2026 September September 10–17 – The Daily Mail sponsors the third and final light airplane trials at Lympne Aerodrome in Lympne, England. A Hawker Cygnet flown by George Bulman wins. Flying an Avro 581 Avian, Bert Hinkler takes second place in three of the six trials before withdrawing with magneto problems.Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, 978-0-7607-0592-6, p. 78. September 21 – Hoping to win the Orteig Prize, French World War I ace René Fonck attempts to take off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island in a severely overloaded Sikorsky S-35 for a nonstop transatlantic flight to Paris. The aircraft loses a wheel on takeoff, fails to gain lift, cartwheels off a bluff, and bursts into flames, killing two of its crew. Fonck survives. September 26 – The French aviators Dieudonné Costes and René de Vitrolles fly 4,100 km mi on from Paris to Assuan, Egypt, in an attempt to break the world distance record. October October 1 – Northwest Airways (the future Northwest Airlines) begins service as a contract U.S. mail carrier. October 2 – During a scheduled passenger flight from Paris-Le Bourget Airport outside Paris to Croydon Airport in London, the Air Union Blériot 155 F-AICQ Clément Ader experiences an in-flight engine fire and attempts an emergency landing at Leigh, Kent. It crashes and is consumed by fire, killing all seven people on board.Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description October 21 – The British airship R.33 makes further parasite fighter tests, releasing two Gloster Grebes from 2,500 ft m 0. October 22 – Curtiss F6C Hawk fighters of the United States Navys Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2) surprise U.S. Navy capital ships sortieing from San Pedro Harbor in California with a simulated dive-bombing attack, diving almost vertically from 12,000 ft m 0. It generally is considered the birth of modern dive bombing.Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 978-1-55750-432-6, p. 39.Smith, Peter C., Dive Bomber!, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1982, 978-0-87021-930-6, pp. 23-24. October 28 – The French aviators Dieudonné Costes and J. Rignot break the world distance record, flying 5,396 km mi on from Paris to Jask, Persia, as a part of 19,625 km mi on on Paris–India–Paris flight. November Adolphe Bernard's Société Industrielle des Métaux et du Bois (SIMB; Industrial Company for Metals and Wood) closes, a victim of bankruptcy. Bernard again will reorganize the company in September 1927 as the Société des Avions Bernard (Bernard Aircraft Company) and resume the design and production of aircraft. 16 May 2001 Adolphe-Bernard http://fandavion.free.fr/Bernard_cnstructeur.htm Fan d'Avions 7 May 2026 fr G. M. Lord announces the organization of Honolulu Airways, Ltd., a commercial airline which would carry passengers, mail, and freight between Honolulu and other points on Oahu and between Oahu and other islands in Hawaii. The airline never materializes. November 6 – Italo Balbo becomes Italy's Secretary of State for Air.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. 75. November 13 – The 1926 Schneider Trophy race is flown at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Mario de Bernardi of Italy wins in a Macchi M.39 at 396.698 km/h mph on, a new world speed record. November 15 – T. Neville Stack and B. S. Leete leave England in an attempt to reach India by air in a de Havilland DH.60. They will arrive in Karachi on January 8, 1927. November 17 – Mario de Bernardi breaks his four-day-old world speed record, reaching 416.618 km/h mph on in the same Macchi M.39 at Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA. December December 7 In the United States, the first airway light beacon erected by the Aeronautics Branch (predecessor of the Federal Aviation Administration) of the United States Department of Commerce begins operation. It is located on the air mail route between Chicago, Illinois, and Dallas, Texas, 15 mi 0 northeast of Moline, Illinois. By June 30, 1927, the United States will have 4,121 mi of lighted airways. The Aeronautics Branch makes its first official airworthiness inspection of an American aircraft, testing a Stinson Detroiter before its delivery to Canadian Air Express. December 15 – Bert Hinkler and John F. Leeming, flying the Avro 585 Gosport biplane G-EBPH, take off from Woodford Aerodrome in Woodford, Greater Manchester, England, hoping to land on the mountain Helvellyn in the Lake District, but turn back because of bad weather. Avro 585 G-EBPH Gosport on Helvellyn https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/lakes/ebph.html Aircraft Accidents In Yorkshire 28 April 2025 December 21 – Hinkler and Leeming depart Woodford Aerodrome in the Avro 585 Gosport biplane G-EBPH to make a second attempt at landing on Helvellyn, but turn back after finding the winds over the Lake District too strong to allow a landing. December 22 – Flying the Avro 585 Gosport biplane G-EBPH from Woodford Aerodrome, Hinkler (as passenger) and Leeming (as pilot) succeed in landing on the summit of Helvellyn. After asking a witness on the ground to sign a paper attesting to the landing, they take off and return to Woodford Aerodrome. They claim to have made the first landing on a mountain in the United Kingdom. December 31 – The first Air Commerce Regulations of the United States Department of Commerce's Aeronautics Branch go into effect. They require all aircraft engaged in interstate or foreign commerce to be licensed and marked with an assigned identification number; pilots of licensed aircraft to hold private or commercial licenses; and mechanics repairing aircraft engaged in air commerce to secure either engine or airplane mechanic licenses, or both. The regulations also class commercial pilots as either transport or industrial pilots, and prescribe operational and air traffic safety rules. Aircraft owners, pilots, and mechanics have until March 1, 1927 (later extended to May 1, 1927) to apply for licenses, and must comply with all licensing requirements by July 1, 1927. First flights Avro 571 Buffalo Bernard 15Liron Jean Les avions Bernard 1990 Éditions Larivière Paris 2-84890-065-2 Collection Docavia 31 181, 224 fr Boulton Paul Sidestrand Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster Cierva C.8 Dewoitine D.25 Fairchild 71 Farman F.150 FBA 23 Junkers A 32 Junkers A 35 Junkers G 31 Latécoère 26 Levasseur PL.4 Pitcairn PA-2 Sesquiwing Pitcairn PA-3 Orowing Potez 28 Westland Westbury Wright-Bellanca WB-2 c. 1926 – Mitsubishi 2MB1 Spring 1926 – Westland Racer January January 12 – Polikarpov DI-1 January 25 – Stinson Detroiter February Latécoère 25 February 14 – Ryan M-1 February 19 – Dornier N/Kawasaki Ka 87 March Armstrong Whitworth Argosy G-EBLFDonald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, 978-0-7607-0592-6, p. 63. April April 24 - Handley Page Harrow (HP.31) May Bernard SIMB AB 12Liron Jean Les avions Bernard 1990 Éditions Larivière Paris 2-84890-065-2 Collection Docavia 31 178–179, 224 fr May 5 – Wright XF3W ApacheAngelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, 978-0-517-56588-9, p. 462. May 7 – Blériot 127 June ca. June – Saunders A.3 Valkyrie June 11 – Ford 4-AT TrimotorPolmar, Norman, "'There's a Ford In Your Future'," Naval History, December 2015, p. 14. June 14 – Fairchild FC-1, prototype of the Fairchild FC-2 June 17 – Junkers W 33 June 19 – Blackburn Iris June 26 Avro 566 Avenger Avro Tutor July Latécoère 21 Martin T3M July 6 – Macchi M.39 August August 9 – Focke-Wulf GL 18 September Avro 581, prototype of the Avro Avian De Havilland DH.66 Hercules G-EBMW October Consolidated NY-2 October 25 - Spartan C3 October 27 - Blériot 165 November Saunders A.4 Medina G-EBMG November 3 – Boeing XF2B-1, prototype of the Boeing F2BAngelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 74. Entered service Levasseur PL.2 with French Naval Aviation aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn May Consolidated NY-1 with the United States Navy"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. Farman F.170 Jabiru with Société Générale des Transports Aériens June Breguet 19 B.2 bomber variant with the 11e Régiment d'Aviation de Bombardement of the French Armys Aéronautique MilitaireDonald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, 0-7607-0592-5, p. 187. June 16 – Armstrong Whitworth Argosy G-EBLO with Imperial AirwaysDonald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, 0-7607-0592-5, p. 63. August Lioré et Olivier 21 with Air Union September Martin T3M with the United States Navy December SABCA S.2 with SABENA Retirements Cox-Klemin XS by the United States Navy Grigorovich M-24 by Soviet Naval Aviation Martin MS by the United States Navy March Avro 549 Aldershot by No. 99 Squadron, Royal Air Force References Taylor, H.A. Fairey Aircraft since 1915. 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