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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:

1 Events

February

• February 23 - John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the Silver Dart

May

• May 14May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). There are 231 days remaining. Events 1264 Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. 1483 Coronat - Samuel CodySamuel Franklin Cody ( 1867 August 7 1913) was an early pioneer of manned flight, most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites that were used in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting. A flamboyant s makes the first aeroplane flight in the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly longer than 1 mile (1.6 km) in the British Army Aeroplane No. 1 .

July

• The International Exhibition of Aviation opens in in Frankfurt-am-Main (ILA - regularly in Berlin in our times).
• July 25July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. Events 306 Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 1261 Constantinople is captured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael - Louis BlériotLouis Bleriot ( July 1, 1872 in Cambrai August 2, 1936 in Paris) was a French inventor and engineer, who performed the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft. He had an early interest in aviation and in 1900, built a motor-pow claims a £1,000 prize from the British Daily MailThe Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. For many years, it has had a right-wing editorial slant. For most of its history it was a broadsheet but is currently published in a tabloid format. newspaper for being the first pilot to cross the English Channel. He makes the crossing in his Blériot Type XI from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Northfall Meadow (near Dover Castle) in 37 minutes. Blériot also received an additional £3,000 from the French government.

August

• First International Air Races held in Reims. Glenn Curtiss wins Major Prize.

October

• Die Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktiengessellschaft (DELAG) becomes the world's first airline, founded at Frankfurt-am-Main.
• October 30 - John Moore-Brabazon in a Short Brothers aircraft flies the first circular mile in the UK and wins £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.

November

• November 4 - John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
• November 16, foundation of the first air transport company in the world, DELAG (German Aviation Company).