1933 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1933:

Events

January

January 16 - Jean Mermoz and crew make a non-stop flight from Senegal to Brazil in 17 hours 27 minutes.

February

February 6-8 - Gayford and Nicholetts make the first non-stop flight from England to South Africa in a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane. The 5,309 mile (8,544 km) flight is a new distance record. They take 57 hours 25 minutes.
February 6-9 - Jim Mollison flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from the UK to Brazil, via Senegal. He becomes the first person to fly solo across the North and South Atlantics.
February 25 - USS Ranger, the US Navy's first ship designed from the outset as an aircraft carrier, is launched.

April

April 1 - the Indian Air Force is formed
April 3 - two British aircraft, the Westland PV-3 and Westland PV-6 make the first flight over Mount Everest
April 4 - US Navy airship USS Akron crashes during a storm, killing 76 of its 79 crew.
April 29 - the Reichsluftfahrtministerium ("Reich Aviation Ministry") is formed by the Nazi government.

May

May 7-8 - Stanislaw Skarzynski flew the South Atlantic in a small single-seater tourist airplane, a RWD-5bis, in 20 hours 30 minutes, over a distance 3,582 km (2,238 miles). The RWD-5bis was the smallest plane to have ever flown the Atlantic (apart from a high-tech Rutan Voyager of 1986) - empty weight below 450 kg (990 lbs).

July

July 14-22, Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo flight. His flight begins and ends at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, with stops at Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk and Alaska - a total distance of 25,099 km (15,596 miles).

August

August 5-7 - Maurice Rossi and Paul Codes fly a Blériot 110 from New York to Rayal, Syria, establishing a new distance record of 9,104 km (5,657 miles).

September

September 7-8 - six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats make a non-stop formation flight from Norfolk, Virginia to the Panama Canal, covering 2,059 miles (3,314 km) in 25 hours 20 minutes.
September 28 - Lemoine sets a new altitude record of 13,661 m (44,820 ft) in a Potez 50

October

October 4-11 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith sets a new solo flight record between England and Australia of 7 days 4 hours. He flies a Percival Gull.
October 15 - the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is started for the first time.
October 31 - Air France is founded.

December

December 1 - Indian National Airways commences the first daily service in India, between Calcutta and Dacca.

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1933:

January

January 16 - Jean Mermoz and crew make a non-stop flight from Senegal to Brazil in 17 hours 27 minutes.

February

February 6-8 - Gayford and Nicholetts make the first non-stop flight from England to South Africa in a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane. The 5,309 mile (8,544 km) flight is a new distance record. They take 57 hours 25 minutes.
February 6-9 - Jim Mollison flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from the UK to Brazil, via Senegal. He becomes the first person to fly solo across the North and South Atlantics.
February 25 - USS Ranger, the US Navy's first ship designed from the outset as an aircraft carrier, is launched.

April

April 1 - the Indian Air Force is formed
April 3 - two British aircraft, the Westland PV-3 and Westland PV-6 make the first flight over Mount Everest
April 4 - US Navy airship USS Akron crashes during a storm, killing 76 of its 79 crew.
April 29 - the Reichsluftfahrtministerium ("Reich Aviation Ministry") is formed by the Nazi government.

May

May 7-8 - Stanislaw Skarzynski flew the South Atlantic in a small single-seater tourist airplane, a RWD-5bis, in 20 hours 30 minutes, over a distance 3,582 km (2,238 miles). The RWD-5bis was the smallest plane to have ever flown the Atlantic (apart from a high-tech Rutan Voyager of 1986) - empty weight below 450 kg (990 lbs).

July

July 14-22, Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo flight. His flight begins and ends at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, with stops at Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk and Alaska - a total distance of 25,099 km (15,596 miles).

August

August 5-7 - Maurice Rossi and Paul Codes fly a Blériot 110 from New York to Rayal, Syria, establishing a new distance record of 9,104 km (5,657 miles).

September

September 7-8 - six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats make a non-stop formation flight from Norfolk, Virginia to the Panama Canal, covering 2,059 miles (3,314 km) in 25 hours 20 minutes.
September 28 - Lemoine sets a new altitude record of 13,661 m (44,820 ft) in a Potez 50

October

October 4-11 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith sets a new solo flight record between England and Australia of 7 days 4 hours. He flies a Percival Gull.
October 15 - the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is started for the first time.
October 31 - Air France is founded.

December