1937 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937:
Events
March
- March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new flying boat base at Hythe, Hampshire.
April
- April 12 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.
- April 26 - Luftwaffe bombers of Legion Condor attack Guernica
- April 30 - Nationalist Spanish battleship España sunk by air attack by Republican forces.
May
- May 6 - German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
June
- June 18-20, Valery Chkalov, G.F.Baidukov, A.V.Belyakov flew from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, USA via the North Pole
July
- July 3, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear on a flight from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island, and are never seen again.
- July 3-6 - Pan Am and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic in preparation for the commencement of regular services.
- July 12-14 - Mikhail Gromov, A. B. Yumashev, and S. A. Danilin establish a new distance record of 10,148 km (6,303 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto, California, USA via the North Pole.
August
- August 15 - Lufthansa begins seaplane services between the Azores and New York with the assistance of seaplane tenders stationed along the route.
First flights
January
February
March
May
June
July
- July 27 - Short Mayo Flying-boat / seaplane composite
- July 27 - Focke-Wulf Fw 200 prototype D-AERE
- July 29 - Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
August
- August 11 - Boulton Paul Defiant prototype K 8310
October
- October 16 - Short S.25 K 4774, prototype of the Short Sunderland
December
- Brewster B-139, prototype of the Brewster Buffalo
- December 24 - Macchi C.200
Entered service
February
- Gloster Gladiator with No. 3 and No. 72 Squadron RAF
March
- March 9 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitley with No. 10 Squadron RAF
- Bristol Blenheim with No. 114 Squadron RAF
April
May
October
- Miles Magister
- TBD Devastator with VT-3 aboard USS Saratoga
November
December
- SB2U Vindicator with VB-3 aboard USS Saratoga
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