1923 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1923:
Events
January
- Air Union is created by the merger of Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes (CMA) with Grands Express Aériens (CGEA).
February
- The first take-off and landing on the new Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho is made by a British pilot in a Mitsubishi 1MF.
- The RAF conducts operations in Southern Iraq against uprisings led by Sheik Mahmud Barzenci.
- February 1 - the Danish Army Flying Corps is established
March
April
- April 10 - Daimler Airways begins the first scheduled service between London and Berlin (via Bremen and Hamburg).
- April 16 - 17 - Lt John MacReady and Lt Oakley Kelley establish a new endurance record, staying aloft for 36 hours 5 minutes in a Fokker T-2, covering a distance of 2,518 miles (4,052 km).
May
June
July
August
- August 21 - first electric beacons start appearing at US airfields, to assist in night flying operations.
- August 28 - Lt John Richter and Lowell Smith establish a new endurance record of 37 hours 15 minutes in an Airco DH.4, covering 3,293 miles (5,299 km). They are refueled fifteen times during the flight.
September
October
- October 6 - Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer air race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).
- October 15 ? First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent.
December
- December 21 - French airship Dixmude crashes into the Mediterranean. Fifty-two people are killed.
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Entered service
