1930 in aviation - Definition and Overview

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:

Events

• The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
• The German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.

January

• January 25 - American Airways is formed

March

• March 21 - the Chilean army and navy combine their air arms into a separate, independent command.

May

• May 5-24 - Amy Johnson flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
• May 15 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport

June

• June 4 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 ft) in a F3W Apache
• June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

July

• July 16 - August 8 - the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1930 in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
• July 20 - August 1 - 7,560 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1930 contest.
• July 29 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.

August

• August 8 - end of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.

October

• October 5 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
• October 25 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.

First flights

April

• April 29 - Polikarpov I-5

May

• May 6 - Boeing Monomail

June

• June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

September

• September 24 - Short Rangoon

October

• October 5 - Junkers Ju 52

November

• November 14 - Handley Page HP.42
• November 25 - Fairey Hendon

December

• December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6

Entered service

November 18 1930 - The Boeing XP-9 monoplane fighter makes its 1st flight in Dayton, Ohio.