1936 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936:

Events

February

• February 13 – Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa

March

• March 23 – Imperial Airways begins scheduled flights between Hong Kong and Malaysia.

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 Morocco 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

• January 4 – Vought XSB2U-1

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

• May 12 – Messerschmitt Bf 110
• May 14 – Miles Whitney Straight
• May 27 – Fairey Seafox

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

October

• October 28 – Dornier Do 19

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