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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1926:

1 Events

• United Airlines established.

January

• January 6 - Deutsche Lufthansa is formed by the mergerThis page deals with the combination of two companies into one. For information about other uses of the word "merge", see merge. In business or economics a merger is a combination of two companies into one larger company. Such actions are commonly volunta of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr
• January 26January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 339 days remaining (340 in leap years). Events 1340 King Edward III of England is declared King of France. 1500 Vicente Yanez Pinzon become the first European to discover Brazil. - Ramon Franco sets out from SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc in a Dornier Do JThe Dornier Do J was a twin-engine German seaplane of the 1920s. German airliners 1920-1929 German mailplanes 1920-1929 German patrol aircraft 1920-1929 Seaplanes and flying boats World War II German patrol aircraft. to reach Buenos AiresBuenos Aires (BWEH-naus EYE-ress, meaning "Good Winds" in Spanish) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest in South America. The city proper has a population of close to 3 million, while the Greater Buenos after 59 hours in the air.

March

• March 1March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining. Events BC 29 BC Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen''. AD First thousand years 286 Maximian proclaimed junior Roman emperor. - Four Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF is the air force of the United Kingdom. History Formation and Early History The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912 superseding the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Na Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2
• March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts.

April

• April 1 - Italian airline Società Italiana Servizi Aerei begins operations linking Trieste, Venice, Pavia, and Turin with Cant 10 flying boats.
• April 6 - Varney Speed Lines begins operations in the US. It will later become Continental Airlines
• April 30 - Bessie Coleman, the first licensed African-American female pilot was killed along with mechanic William Wills, who was piloting the plane, after they crashed as a result of a wrench that Wills had accidentally left loose and that got stuck in the control gears.

May

• May 9 - Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first flight over the North Pole in a Fokker VII a-3m.
• May 11 - 14 – Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitzbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later.

June

• June 30 - Alan Cobham sets out on a round trip from England to Australia in a de Havilland DH.50 . He will arrive back in London on October 1 and receive a knighthood for his accomplishment.

July

• July 1 - A Blackburn Dart makes the first night landing on an aircraft carrier, HMS Furious
• July 2 - the United States Army Air Service becomes the United States Army Air Corps.
• July 24 - two Lufthansa Junkers G.24 s leave Berlin to make a round-trip to Beijing. They will return on September 26.

October

• October 21 - British airship R.33 makes further parasite fighter tests, releasing two Gloster Grebe s from 2,500 ft (762 m).

November

• November 13 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Hampton Roads, USA. Won by Mario De Bernardi ( Italy) in a Macchi M.39 at 396.698 km/h (246.5 mph).
• November 15 - T. Neville Stack and B. S. Leete leave England in an attempt to reach India by air in a de Havilland DH.60 . They will arrive in Karachi on January 8 1927.