Events
- Employing aerial refueling, a sustained flight record of 653 hours 33 minutes (27 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes) is set. It remains unbroken.
- Consolidated Aircraft Corporation moves from Buffalo, New York, to San Diego, California.
- Imperial Japanese Navy dive bombers practice against a full-size mock-up of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3) at the Kashima bombing range.
- Pan American World Airways builds a seaplane base for its transpacific China Clipper flying boats on Sand Island at Midway Atoll.
- The Soviet Union has the largest bomber force in the world.
- Kalinin K-7 programme is ended before two further K-7s can be completed, only one K-7 is built, the one which was lost in 1933
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