1929 in Aviation - Events

Events

  • Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
  • Cubana de Aviación begins service.
  • Pan American World Airways begins service.
  • The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is formed.
  • First official airmail to the Mackenzie District of Canada's western Arctic by bushpilot.
  • Airway Beacon is built in St. Paul, Minnesota. It still exists in Indian Mounds Park.
  • Aircraft Development Corporation changes its name to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation.
  • Consolidated Aircraft Corporation absorbs the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation.
  • In response to the creation of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation is formed as a holding company controlling the stock of the Boeing Airplane Company, the Chance Vought Corporation, the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company, and the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, soon joined by the Sikorsky Aviation Corporation, the Stearman Aircraft Company, the Standard Steel Propeller Company, and several airlines managed by the new United Air Lines, Inc. management company.
  • The Imperial Japanese Navy begins to gather information on aerial techniques, training, and aircraft necessary for dive bombing.
  • The Royal Swedish Navy assigns a ship to aviation service for the first time.

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