1935 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1935:

Events

January

January 11-12 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across the Pacific from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
January 15 - Maj James Doolittle establishes a record for a transport flight across the United States, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in 11 hours 59 minutes.

February

February 3 - Hugo Junkers dies
February 12 - USS Macon airship sinks off Point Sur, California.
February 22 - Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 minutes.

March

March 9 - the Nazi Government in Germany announces the formation of the Luftwaffe, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles
March 28 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.

April

April 1 - Swissair begins services between Zürich and London
April 13 - QANTAS and Imperial Airways provide regular connecting flights between Brisbane, Australia and London
April 16-17 - A Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 makes the first airline flight from the continental US to Hawaii.

May

May 18 - the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky crashes near Tushino after a mid-air collision. Fifty-six people are killed, making it the worst air crash at this time.

July

July 1 - The Flying Keys set endurance record by flying a Curtiss Robin non-stop for 653 hours, 34 minutes

August

August 5 - Wiley Post is killed in a crash in Alaska. His passenger (also killed) is Will Rogers.

October

November

November 11 - A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 ft (22,066 m).
November 11-13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percivall Gull. She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.
November 22 - Pan Am commences the first trans-Pacific airmail service, flying a Martin M.130 from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam.