1930 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:
Events
- The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
- The German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
- January 25 - American Airways is formed
- May 5-24 - Amy Johnson flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
- May 15 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport
- June 4 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 m) in a F3W Apache
- July 16 - August 8 - the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1930 in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
- July 20 - August 1 - 7,560 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1930 contest.
- July 29 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.
- August 8 - end of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
- August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930 to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes.
- October 5 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
- October 25 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.
First flights
- RWD-4 (spring)
- May 6 - Boeing Monomail
- September 12 - Taylor E-2
- September 24 - Short Rangoon
- November 14 - Handley Page HP.42
- November 18 - Boeing XP-9
- November 25 - Fairey Hendon
- December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6
Entered service
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