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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1913:
Events
- The Serbian air force is established as an army air service. Six officers receive pilot training in France.
- First air strike ever. Mexican pilot Gustavo Salinas Camilla and Frenchman Didier Masson, attacked land and naval federal forces for rebels led by Pancho Villa.
January
- January 13 – Brazilian naval aviation commences with the foundation of a flying school.
February
- February 11 – the Chilean air force is established at Lo Espejo (today El Bosque).
March
- China obtains twelve military aircraft from France.
- March 15 – The US Army forms the 1st Aero Squadron under Capt Charles Chandler at Texas City to scout for Mexican incursions along the border.
April
- April 16 – First contest for the Schneider Trophy. Maurice Prévost wins in a Deperdussin monoplane, completing the 28 circuits of the 10 km (6.2 mile) course with an average speed of 73.63 km/h (45.75 mph)
- April 24 – O. Gilbert flies 825 km from Villacoublay to Vitoria (8 hours and 23 minutes).
- April 27 – Robert G. Fowler makes first flight across the Isthmus of Panama. Technically this is the first flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
July
- July 1 – Royal Netherlands Army forms its Aviation Division (Luchtvaart Afdeling)
August
- August 7 – Aviation pioneer Samuel Cody is killed in a crash
- August 20 – 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
September
- September 1 – Frenchman Adolphe Pégoud does the first upside-down flight.
- September 9 – Prevost reaches 204 km/h with the "Deperdussin-racing aeroplane".
- September 23 – Roland Garros makes the first air crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. He flies the 729 km (453 miles) from Saint-Raphael to Bizerte in 7 hours 53 minutes.
December
- December 13-14 – German balloonist Hugo Kaulen stays aloft for 87 hours. This record lasted until 1935.
First flights
May
- May 13 – Sikorsky Ruskii Vitiaz, the world's first four-engined aircraft. It was also the first aeroplane with a lavatory.
September
November
December
- December 11 – Sikorsky Ilya Murometz
Entered service
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