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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
- October 1 - The first company to bear the name British Airways is formed, by the merger of Hillman Airways, Spartan Air Lines and United Airways.
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.
December
- December 27 - the USAAC uses aerial bombardment to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa, Hawaii that is threatening Hilo's waterworlks.
First flights
February
March
- March 24 - Avro Anson military prototype K 4771
April
- Douglas DB-1, prototype of the B-18 Bolo
- April 1 - The NA-16 prototype of the T-6 Texan/Harvard
- April 12 - Bristol Britain First, prototype of the Bristol Blenheim
May
- May 8 - Handley Page Harrow
- May 28 - Messerschmitt Bf 109
June
July
- July 11 - Yakovlev AIR-19, prototype of the Yakovlev UT-2
- July 17 - Boeing model 299, prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress
- July 27 - Miles Falcon Six
August
November
- November 6 - Hawker Hurricane K5083
December
- December 17 - Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3
- December 18 - Miles Nighthawk
Entered service
November
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