1927 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1927:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 May 1.4 June 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10 December 2 First flights 2.1 March 2.2 April 2.3 May 2.4 July 3 Entered service 3.1 July

Events

January

• January 7 - Imperial Airways commences a regular service from Basra to Cairo via Baghdad, the first of its Empire "trunk routes"
• January 15 - Boeing Air Transport is formed, to carry airmail between Chicago and San Francisco. This will eventually become United Airlines

March

• March 14 - Pan American Airways is formed to carry airmail on the Key West-Havana route.

May

• May 1 - Imperial Airways introduces its luxury "Silver Wing" service between London and Paris.
• May 8-9 - Charles Nungesser and François Coli attempted to cross the Atlantic from Paris to the USA in Levasseur PL-8 The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) biplane, but were lost.
• May 20-21 - Charles Lindbergh flies The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic nonstop and solo, direct from New York City to Paris, as a first solo transatlantic flight.
• May 20 - Flt Lt Roderic Carr sets out to set a new distance record, attempting to fly from England to India in a Hawker Horsely. Three days later, he will be rescued from the Persian Gulf.
• May 27 - France's first aircraft carrier, the Bearn is commissioned

June

• June 4-6 - With Charles A. Levine as his passenger, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin‎ made a record nonstop transatlantic flight, in his monoplane Columbia, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Eisleben, Germany, a distance of 3,911 miles, in 42 hours and 31 minutes.
• June 5 - the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("Society for spaceship travel") is formed in Germany.
• June 6 - Canadian innovator Wallace Turnbull sells the parent of the variable-pitch propeller to Curtiss-Wright in the United States and Bristol in the United Kingdom. It will be successfully flight tested on June 29.
• June 15 - US businessman Van Lear Black charters a KLM Fokker F.VIIa for a flight from the Netherlands to Batavia, the first international charter flight.
• June 28-29 - a US Army Fokker C-2 makes the first non-stop flight from the continental US to Hawaii.
• June 29 - July 1 - Richard Evelyn Byrd with crew flies Fokker F.VIIa/3m "America" from New York City to France.

July

• July 17 - USMC de Havilland DH.4s are used to attack bandits in Nicaragua threatening the garrison at Ocotal.

August

• August 12 - the Royal Air Force holds a fly-off between four competing flying boat designs, the Supermarine Southampton, Blackburn Iris, Short Singapore, and the Saunders-Roe Valkyrie.
• August 26 - Bert Hinkler sets a new non-stop distance record, flying from Croydon, England to Riga, Latvia.

September

• September 8 - the Cessna company is established.
• September 26 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Venice, Italy. Won by Flight Lt. S.N Webster (UK) in a Supermarine S5 at 453.2 km/h (281.7mph).
• September 28 - Lt Dick Bently of the South African Air Force arrives in South Africa after having made the first solo flight there from England. He left London on September 1.

October

• October 14-15 - Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix make the first non-stop aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, flying a Breguet 19 from Saint-Louis, Senegal to Port Natal in Brazil, as a part of their round-the-world 57,000 km trip .

November

• November 16 - US aircraft carrier USS Saratoga is commissioned.
• November 17 - Sir Alan Cobham sets out from England in a Short Singapore to make an aerial survey of Africa.

December

• December 14 - US aircraft carrier USS Lexington is commissioned.
• December 29 - Georg Wulf, co-founder of Focke-Wulf, is killed in the crash of the Focke-Wulf Fw 19

First flights

• Hamilton H-47, first US all-metal aircraft
• Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 52

March

• March 7 - Westland Wapiti
• March 26 - Handley Page Hinaidi

April

• April 27 - Stinson Detroiter

May

• May 12 - Armstrong Whitworth Starling
• May 17 - Bristol Bulldog

July

• July 4 - Lockheed Vega

Entered service

July

• July 1 - Boeing 40 with Boeing Air Transport

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