1924 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1924:

Events

Violating the Treaty of Versailles, Germany establishes a secret training base for German pilots at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union. More than 450 German personnel will train there over the next ten years.

Following a military revolt, Brazil abolishes Brazilian Army and Brazilian Navy contrrol of aviation and places all military aviation units under the direct control of the general staff.

The Tachikawa Aircraft Company Ltd. is founded at Tachikawa, Japan.

January

January 29 – Pateras Pesara flies an experimental helicopter in Paris. The machine flies 800 metres (2,640 ft) in just over 10 minutes.

February

February 20 – Three French Army officers make the first two-way aerial crossing of the Sahara Desert in a Breguet 14.

March

Huff Daland Dusters is established as the world's first crop dusting company in Georgia in the United States. It will eventually grow into Delta Air Service, then Delta Air Lines.

March 25 – Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart Charles Stuart-MacLaren, Flying Officer William Noble Plenderleith, Sergeant W. H. Andrews of the Royal Air Force set off from Calshot in a Vickers Vulture II in an eastbound attempt to circumnavigate the world. Their attempt ultimately will fail on August 4 in the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea.

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