1936 IN AVIATION

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936:

Contents

Events

February

March

April

May

July

September

October

First flights

January

February

March

May

June

July

October

December

Entered service

January

March

July

November

References

Events

February

★ British Marine Aircraft Ltd. was established at Hamble, Hampshire to produce Sikorsky S-42-A flying boats under licence in the United Kingdom but nothing came of this. The company subsequently became Folland Aircraft Limited.

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

March

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

April

★ Aer Lingus - Ireland's national airline founded.

May

★ 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

★ July 14 - The British Royal Air Force is re-organised on functional grounds and Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Training Command are established.

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

September

★ 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

★ 11 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 5000 kg (11,023 lb) to 8116 m (26,627 ft).

★ 16 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 10000 kg (22,046 lb) to 6605 m (21,670 ft).

★ 20 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 12000 kg (26,455 lb) to 2700 m (8,858 ft).

October

★ 28 October - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 5000 kg (11,023 lb) to 8980 m (29,462 ft).

First flights

January

★ January 4 - Vought XSB2U-1

February

★ February 14 - Hawker Hector

March

★ March 4 - German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg

★ March 5 - Supermarine Spitfire

★ March 10 - Fairey Battle prototype ''K 4303''

★ March 17 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitley prototype ''K 4586''

May

★ May 12 - Messerschmitt Bf 110

★ May 14 - Miles Whitney Straight

★ May 27 - Fairey Seafox

June

★ 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

★ July 3 - Short Empire prototype ''RMA Canopus''

October

★ October 28 - Dornier Do 19

December

★ December 13 - PZL.37 Łoś

★ December 21 - Junkers Ju 88 prototype ''D-AQEN''

★ December 22 - North American XB-21 s/n 38-485

Entered service

January

★ Hawker Hind with the Royal Air Force

March

★ Avro Anson with No. 48 Squadron RAF

July

★ Fairey Swordfish with No. 825 Squadron FAA

November

★ Fairey Hendon with No. 38 Squadron RAF

References

★ Fagan, Dave. 'Hamble' ''Aviation in Hampshire UK 1900 to 2000'' Retrieved May 20 2005