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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1935:

1 Events

January

• January 11- 12 – Amelia EarhartAmelia Earhart ( July 24, 1897 July 2, 1937) was a famous American aviator. Flying career Born in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia Mary Earhart worked as a nurses aide in a military hospital in Canada during World War I. Her career began in Los Angeles in 1921 wh makes the first solo flight across the Pacific from Honolulu, HawaiiHonolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U. state of Hawai‘i. In the Hawaiian language, honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter. The city is located along the southeast coast of to Oakland, CaliforniaOakland founded in 1852, is a city on the east side (aka East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. To its north is Berkeley, home to the famous university campus ( University of California, Berkeley). To its west is San F.
• January 15January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 350 days remaining (351 in leap years). Events 1559 Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland. 1759 The British Museu - Maj James DoolittleThere are a few persons named James Doolittle James Rood Doolittle, U. Senator from Wisconsin, 1857-1869 Jimmy Doolittle, U. Army General, World War II hero, aviator. establishes a record for a transport flight across the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, from Los Angeles to Newark, New JerseyNewark Bay Bridge. The Watchungs are in the background. Newark is located in Essex County, New Jersey, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 273,546. It is an industrial city ten miles (16 km) west of New York City, with convenien in 11 hours 59 minutes.

February

• February 3 - Hugo Junkers dies
• February 12 - USS Macon airship sinks off Point Sur, California .
• February 22 - Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 minutes.

March

• March 9 - the Nazi Government in Germany announces the formation of the Luftwaffe, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles
• March 28 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.

April

• April 1 - Swissair begins services between Zürich and London
• April 13 - QANTAS and Imperial Airways provide regular connecting flights between Brisbane, Australia and London
• April 16- 17 - A Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 makes the first airline flight from the continental US to Hawaii.

May

• May 18 - the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky crashes near Tushino after a mid-air collision. Fifty-six people are killed, making it the worst air crash at this time.

July

• July 1 - The Flying Keys set endurance record by flying a Curtiss Robin non-stop for 653 hours, 34 minutes

August

• August 5 - Wiley Post is killed in a crash in Alaska. His passenger (also killed) is Will Rogers.

October

• October 1 - The first company to bear the name British Airways is formed, by the merger of Hillman Airways , Spartan Air Lines and United Airways .

November

• November 11 - A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 ft (22,066 m).
• November 11- 13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percivall Gull . She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.
• November 22 - Pan Am commences the first trans-Pacific airmail service, flying a Martin M.130 from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam.

December

• December 27 - the USAAC uses aerial bombardment to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa, Hawaii that is threatening Hilo's waterworlks.