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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:

1 Events

• The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
• The German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.

January

• January 25January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years). Events 1327 Edward III becomes King of England. 1494 Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 Henry VIII of England marries his second wife - American Airways is formed

March

• March 21March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). There are 285 days remaining. Events 1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. 1788 A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and - the ChileanThe word chile may also refer to Chilli pepper. The Republic of Chile is a republic located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argenti army and navy combine their air arms into a separate, independent command.

May

• May 5May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). There are 240 days remaining. There are usually 92 days in Spring. We are considered halfway through Spring on May 5. Events 1640 King Charles I of England disbands the Sh- 24May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). There are 221 days remaining. Events 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. 1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves for Egypt. 1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne. 1487 Im - Amy JohnsonAmy Johnson ( July 1, 1903 January 5, 1941) was a famous English aviatrix who was born in Kingston upon Hull. Having graduated with a BA Economics from the University of Sheffield, Johnson went to work in London as secretary to a solicitor. She was introd flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
• May 15 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport

June

• June 4 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 ft) in a F3W Apache
• June 12 - Handley Page Heyford

July

• July 16 - August 8 - the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1930 in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
• July 20 - August 1 - 7,560 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1930 contest.
• July 29 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back.

August

• August 8 - end of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik .

October

• October 5 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
• October 25 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.