1936 In Aviation

Events

• February 13 - Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa

• March 23 - Imperial Airways begins scheduled flights between Hong Kong and Malaysia.

• Aer Lingus - Ireland's national airline founded.

• May 4-7 - Amy Johnson sets a new England-South Africa speed record of 3 days 6 hours 26 minutes in a Percival Gull Six.

• July 20 - Twenty Junkers Ju 52s ferry Spanish Nationalist troops from Morrocco to Spain in the world's first major military airlift.

• September 4-5 - Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island

First flights

• January 4 - Vought XSB2U-1

• February 14 - Hawker Hector

• March 4 - German airship Hindenburg
• March 5 - Supermarine Spitfire
• March 10 - Fairey Battle prototype K 4303
• March 17 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitley prototype K 4586

• May 12 - Messerschmitt Bf 110
• May 14 - Miles Whitney Straight
• May 27 - Fairey Seafox

• PZL-37 Los
• June 15 - Vickers Wellington prototype K 4049
• June 15 - Westland Lysander prototype K 6127
• June 21 - Handley Page Hampden prototype K 4240
• June 25 - Bristol Blenheim prototype K 7033
• June 26 - Focke-Wulf Fw 61 D-EBVU, first fully-controllable helicopter

• July 3 - Short Empire prototype RMA Canopus

• October 28 - Dornier Do 19

• December 21 - Junkers Ju 88 prototype D-AQEN
• December 22 - North American XB-21 s/n 38-485

Entered service

• Avro Anson with No. 48 Squadron RAF

• Fairey Swordfish with No. 825 Squadron FAA

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