1935 In Aviation

Events

• January 11-12 Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across 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 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 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 1 - Swissair begins services between Zrich 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 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.

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

• August 5 - Wiley Post is killed in a crash in Alaska. His passenger (also killed) is Will Rogers.

• October 1 - The first company to bear the name British Airways is formed, by the merger of Hillman Airways, Spartan Air Lines and United Airways.

• November 11 - A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 ft (22,066 m).
• November 11-13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percivall 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 27 - the USAAC uses aerial bombardment to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa, Hawaii that is threatening Hilo's waterworlks.

First flights

• Junkers Ju 87

• February 24 - Heinkel He 111

• March 24 - Avro Anson military prototype K 4771

• 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 8 - Handley Page Harrow
• May 28 - Messerschmitt Bf 109

• June 19 - Vickers Wellesley
• June 23 - Bristol Bombay

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

• November 6 - Hawker Hurricane K5083

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

Entered service

• Hawker Hind

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