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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937:

1 Events

March

• March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new flying boatA flying boat is a aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). Flying boats aircraft were among the largest aircraft base at Hythe, HampshireHythe is quite an affluent town near Southampton, Hampshire, England. It has a small shopping area with a Waitrose supermarket. Hythe Marina has a lot of expensive boats moored, and there are super-posh houses with gardens backing right onto the jetty..

April

• April 12April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining. Events 467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire 1204 The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople 1606 The Union Jack i - Sir Frank WhittleSir Frank Whittle ( June 1, 1907 August 9, 1996) was an English inventor who, with Hans von Ohain, is considered the co-inventor of the jet engine. Early life Whittle was born in Earlsdon, Coventry. He left Leamington College in 1923 to join the RAF. ground-tests the first jet engineA jet engine is a type of air-breathing turbine engine, often used on aircraft. The principle of all jet engines is essentially the same. The engine draws air in at the front and compresses it. The air is combined with fuel, typically ignited by flame in designed to power an aircraft at the British Thomson-HoustonBritish Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British Engineering company, founded in 1894 to manufacture in the UK, under licence, products patented by an American company (which was to become General Electric). BTH was based in Rugby, Warwickshire although it had factory in Rugby, EnglandTowns in Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in the county of Warwickshire in central England upon the River Avon. The town is located some 15 miles (24 km) to the east of Coventry. The town has a population of 63,900 (2002). The surrounding borough of Ru.
• April 26April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. Events 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 English col - Luftwaffe bombers of Legion Condor attack Guernica
• April 30 - Nationalist Spanish battleship España sunk by air attack by Republican forces.

May

• May 6 - German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

July

• July 3, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear on a flight from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island, and are never seen again.
• July 3- 6 - Pan Am and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic in preparation for the commencement of regular services.
• July 12- 14 - M. M. Gronov, A. B. Yumashev, and S. A. Danilin establish a new distance record of 10,148 km (6,303 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto , Colombia via the North Pole.

August

• August 15 - Lufthansa begins seaplane services between the Azores and New York with the assistance of seaplane tenders stationed along the route.