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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1932:

1 Events

January

• Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers HoshoThe Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho (meaning "Diving Phoenix") was the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier in the world, commissioned in December 1922, 7 months before the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Hermes''. Being the first of her kind, the Ho and KagaKaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the Battle of Pearl Harbor. It was originally designed as a battleship, and partway through its construction at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe shipyard, converted to a carrier. It took its name fr sail into Chinese territorial waters at the outbreak of the Shanghai Incident .
• January 20January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 345 days remaining (346 in leap years). In astrology, it is the cusp day between Aquarius and Capricorn. Events 1156 According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader B - Imperial AirwaysImperial Airways was an early British commercial air transport company, operating from 1924 to 1939. Created following the advice of the government Hambling Committee in 1923 — that the main existing aircraft companies should be merged to create a company weekly airmailAirmail (or air mail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the service is extended through Africa as far as Cape TownCape Town ( Afrikaans: Kaapstad , is one of South Africa's three capital cities serving as the legislative capital ( Pretoria being the executive capital and Bloemfontein the judicial capital). It is also the capital of the Western Cape province. It is mo.

February

• February 14February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 320 days remaining, 321 in leap years. Events 1014 Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany. 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Em - Ruth Nichols sets a new altitude record for a dieselThe diesel engine is a type of internal combustion engine; more specifically, a compression ignition engine, in which the fuel is ignited by the high temperature of a compressed gas, rather than a separate source of energy (such as a spark plug). It was i-powered aircraft, 6,047 m (19,928 ft) in a modified Lockheed Vega

March

• The final Avro 504 leaves the production line. The type has been in continuous production for nineteen years.
• March 20 - Luftschiffbau Zeppelin begins regular trans-atlantic services between Germany and Brazil, using the Graf Zeppelin.
• March 24- 28 - Jim Mollison sets a new speed record between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, taking 4 days 17 hours in a de Havilland Puss Moth
• March 25 - Dobroflot is expanded into a USSR-wide service and has its name changed to Aeroflot

April

• April 19- 28 - Charles Scott sets a new solo speed record between the UK and Darwin, taking 8 days 20 hours in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
• April 27 - Imperial Airways commences a regular passenger service to Cape Town.

May

• the Egyptian Air Force is formed
• Albert Hegenberger makes the first completely blind solo flight in a Consolidated NY-2 .
• May 20- 21 - Amelia Earhart, flying a Lockheed Vega, becomes the first woman to make solo flight across the North Atlantic, from Harbour Grace in Newfoundland to Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

June

• June 29 - a F9C Sparrowhawk parasite fighter hooks onto the USS Akron for the first time.

July

• July 21 - Wolfgang von Gronau sets out to make a round-the-world trip in a Dornier Wal. One hundred and eleven days later, it will be the first such trip made in a flying boat.
• July 23 - an aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont hangs himself

August

• August 14- 28 - the third International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1932 in Berlin, won by the Polish crew Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura on the RWD-6 plane.
• August 14- 23 Frances Mersalis and Louise Thaden set a women's endurance record of 8 days 4 hours.
• August 18 - Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns set a new balloon altitude record of 16,201 m (53,153 ft).
• August 18- 19 - Jim Mollison makes the first solo East-to-West crossing of the Atlantic, flying a de Havilland Puss Moth from Dublin to New Brunswick
• August 21- 27 - 7,363 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1932 contest.
• August 25 - Amelia Earhart makes the first transcontinental flight across the US by a woman. She flies a Lockheed Vega.

September

• September 3 - Jimmy Doolittle sets a new landplane airspeed record of 296 mph (476 km/h) in the Gee Bee R-1
• September 7 - Thomas Settle and Winfield Bushnell set a new balloon distance record of 1,550 km (963 miles) between Basle, Switzerland and Vilna, Poland.
• September 11 - Polish Challenge 1932 winners, Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura died in an aircrash.
• September 16 - Cyril Uwins sets a new heavier-than-air altitude record of 43,976 ft (13,404 m) in a Vickers Vespa .
• September 25 - Lewis Yancey sets an autogiro altitude record of 21,500 ft (6,553 m) in a Pitcairn PCA-2

October

• October 15 - Tata Sons opens an airmail route between Karachi and Madras, the first regular air service within India.

November

• November 14- 18 - Amy Johnson breaks the UK-Cape Town speed record, shaving 11 hours off Mollison's record in March. She flies a de Havilland Puss Moth.
• November 19 - a national monument to the Wright Brothers is unveiled at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.