1931 in Aviation - Events

Events

  • Manufacturer Airspeed Ltd founded in York, England.
  • Alexander Seversky founds the Seversky Aircraft Corporation.
  • Watanabe Iron Works, the ancestor of the Kyūshū Airplane Company Ltd., begins to manufacture aircraft.
  • First Bendix trophy race.
  • The Imperial Japanese Navy decides to abolish its airship units and phase airships out of the fleet over the next few years.
  • In New York City, the Empire State Building is completed, topped with a 200-foot (61-meter) mooring mast for airships. Plans to disembark airship passengers prove impractical, and the mast is never used except for a single three-minute contact by the United States Navy blimp J-4.

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