1936 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936:
Events
February
- February 13 - Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa
March
April
- Aer Lingus - Ireland's national airline founded.
May
- May 4-7 - Amy Johnson sets a new England-South Africa speed record of 3 days 6 hours 26 minutes in a Percival Gull Six.
July
- July 20 - Twenty Junkers Ju 52s ferry Spanish Nationalist troops from Morrocco to Spain in the world's first major military airlift.
September
- September 4-5 - Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island
First flights
January
February
- February 14 - Hawker Hector
March
- March 4 - German airship Hindenburg
- March 5 - Supermarine Spitfire
- March 10 - Fairey Battle prototype K 4303
- March 17 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitley prototype K 4586
May
June
- PZL-37 Los
- June 15 - Vickers Wellington prototype K 4049
- June 15 - Westland Lysander prototype K 6127
- June 21 - Handley Page Hampden prototype K 4240
- June 25 - Bristol Blenheim prototype K 7033
- June 26 - Focke-Wulf Fw 61 D-EBVU, first fully-controllable helicopter
July
- July 3 - Short Empire prototype RMA Canopus
December
- December 21 - Junkers Ju 88 prototype D-AQEN
- December 22 - North American XB-21 s/n 38-485
Entered service
March
- Avro Anson with No. 48 Squadron RAF
July
- Fairey Swordfish with No. 825 Squadron FAA
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