1930 in aviation

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1930, Zeppelin LZ 127 being held down

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

Events

• The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
• The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
• The Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation, formerly the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company, goes out of business, although the Uppercu-Burnelli Corporation takes over production of Aeromarine aircraft engines.<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 37.</ref>
• French test pilot Roger Baptiste achieves a speed of Template:Convert at an altitude of Template:Convert in the Bernard 20 monoplane fighter prototype.<ref>Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, Template:ISBN, p. 125.</ref>
• Nineteen-year-old Rex Finney of Los Angeles, California, uses the first successful wingsuit, employing it to increase horizontal movement and maneuverability during a parachute jump.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• During the year, the percentage of United States Navy enlisted personnel with an aviation-related rating rises to 9 percent.<ref>Isenberg, Michael T., Shield of the Republic: The United States Navy in an Era of Cold War and Violent Peace, Volume I: 1945-1962, New York: St. Martin's Press, Template:ISBN, p. 489.</ref>
• Autumn 1930 – The Royal Air Force rededicates No. 443 Flight of the Fleet Air Arm as the first British catapult flight of aircraft assigned to operate from battleship and cruiser catapults.<ref>Sturtivant, Ray, British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, Template:ISBN, p. 17.</ref>

January

• The U.S. National Aeronautic Association announces that the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) has won the 1929 Collier Trophy for the greatest achievement in American aviation in 1929 for developing the NACA cowling, a major advance in the reduction of aerodynamic drag that has enabled significant gains in speed and fuel efficiency.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=hansennacacowling>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 2 – Leroy Grumman, Leon Swirbul, and William Schwender found the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Baldwin on Long Island, New York.<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 214.</ref>
• January 16 – On speed trials, the British airship R100 reaches Template:Convert, making her the fastest airship in the world.
• January 17 – Record-setting aviator Frank Hawks attempts to take off in the Lockheed Air Express Texaco Five (registration NR7955) from a soggy field in West Palm Beach, Florida, but the plane is destroyed in a spectacular crash into a row of three parked aircraft. Hawks is unharmed.<ref>Allen, Richard Sanders, Revolution in the Sky: Those Fabulous Lockheeds, The Pilots Who Flew Them, Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964, p. 36.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 19 – Trying to return to Tijuana, Mexico, after taking off in poor weather for a scheduled passenger flight to Los Angeles, California, Maddux Airlines Flight 7 – the Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor NC9689 – crashes in Oceanside, California, and catches fire, killing all 16 people on board. It is the deadliest aviation accident in American history at the time.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident description</ref>
• January 25 – American Airways is formed.

February

• At the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States Navy tests a Ford 5-AT-74 Trimotor equipped with 30-foot (9.1-meter) floats during the month for use as a torpedo bomber, but does not pursue the concept further.<ref>Polar, Norman, "'There's a Ford in Your Future'," Naval History, December 2015, pp. 14-15.</ref>
• February 10 – The Air Union Farman F.63bis Goliath F-FHMY suffers a tailplane structural failure during a flight from Paris-Le Bourget Airport outside Paris to Croydon Airport in London with six people on board. The pilot tries to land at the Pagehurst Emergency Landing Ground in Marden, Kent, England, but the plane stalls and crashes at Marden. Two passengers die, and the other two passengers and both crew members suffer injuries.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description</ref>
• February 15 – The Italian air power theorist Giulio Douhet dies at the age of 60.
• February 17 – A fire destroys the workshops of the Société d'Aviation Letord at Meudon, France, as well as aircraft, including the first Couzinet 20 and the Couzinet 27 Arc-en-ciel II.
• February 24 – Rancho-Boyeros Airport – the future José Martí International Airport – opens at Havana, Cuba.

March

• The Government of Chile creates the Directorate General of Civil Aviation as Chile′s national civil aviation authority.
• March 21 – The Chilean army and navy air arms are combined to form the Chilean Air Force.
• March 28 – The Imperial Ethiopian Air Force flies its first mission, when three of its biplanes drop propaganda leaflets over the army of the rebel Gugsa Welle as it advances across Ethiopia's Begemder province. The leaflets prompt some members of his army to desert.
• March 30 – Towed by a Waco ASO biplane, the glider Texaco Eaglet, piloted by Frank Hawks, takes off from San Diego, California, to make a multi-day flight across the continental United States to New York City.<ref name=popmechjune1930>"Glider is towed by plane across the nation." Popular Mechanics, June 1930.</ref>
• March 31 – The three Imperial Ethiopian Air Force biplanes reappear over Gugsa Welle's army and bomb it at the beginning of the Battle of Anchem in the first combat mission in the air force's history. The bombing proves decisive, as it prompts so many members of Gugsa Welle's army to desert that it is badly outnumbered by the time ground combat begins between it and Imperial forces at Debre Zebit, when many more of its members desert, resulting in its defeat and Gugsa Welle's death.

April

• A float-equipped Cierva C.12 autogiro – dubbed the "Hydrogiro" – takes off from Southampton Water off the south coast of England. It is the first time that a rotary-wing aircraft takes off from a body of water.
• April 1 – Gerhard Fieseler founds the Fieseler aircraft manufacturing company under the name Fieseler Flugzeugbau Kassel.
• April 2
  • The first Korean aviator, An Chang-nam, dies in the crash of his aircraft while he is returning to the airport at the Shanxi Aviation Academy at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, in bad weather.
  • The prototype of the Latécoère 340 trimotor parasol-winged flying boat (registration F-AKDI) breaks up in the air and crashes while being demonstrated for a French Navy official, killing both men on board. No further examples of the aircraft are built.
• April 6
  • Flying the Wright XF3W-1 Apache, United States Navy Lieutenant Apollo Soucek sets a world altitude record, climbing to Template:Convert.<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 462.</ref>
  • Towed by a Waco ASO biplane, the glider Texaco Eaglet, piloted by Frank Hawks, arrives at New York City after an eight-day journey from San Diego, California, during which it has spent 44 hours 10 minutes in the air. The flight demonstrates the feasibility of towing gliders over long distances.<ref name=popmechjune1930/>
• April 9 – Flying his de Havilland DH.60 Moth Miss India, Man Mohan Singh becomes the first Indian to fly (solo) from England to British India, landing at RAF Drigh Road, Karachi one month and one day after departing from Croydon Airport.
• April 10 – Flying the Junkers G 38 D-2000, Wilhelm Zimmermann sets four new world records for an aircraft carrying a payload of Template:Convert, averaging a record Template:Convert over a distance of Template:Convert and a record Template:Convert over a distance of Template:Convert and setting a distance record of Template:Convert and an endurance record of 3 hours 2 minutes.<ref>German Aviation History Homepage: Junkers Who is Who? Wilhelm Zimmermann Template:Webarchive</ref>
• April 10–20 – The English aviator and ornithologist Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, and her personal pilot C. D. Barnard make a record-breaking flight in the Fokker F.VII Spider (G-EBTS) of Template:Convert from Lympne Airport in Lympne, England, to Cape Town, South Africa, in 100 flying hours over 10 days.
• April 23 – A diesel engineed aircraft crashes in New York (state); among the 3 killed is Lionel Woolson, designer of the radial air-cooled aero diesel engine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 27 – During an air show at Fayetteville, Tennessee, pilot Milton P. Covert's plane loses altitude and crashes on a railroad embankment while approaching the landing area, striking spectators standing on the embankment. Covert survives, but at least nine spectators are killed and about 20 injured.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

May

• May 5–14 – Amy Johnson makes the first solo flight from England to Australia by a woman, flying from Croydon to Darwin in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth.<ref>Mondey, David, ed., The Complete Illustrated History of the WorldTemplate:'s Aircraft, Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1978, Template:ISBN, p. 30.</ref>
• May 11 – The New York Air Show of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce is held at Madison Square Garden<ref>AIR SHOW CLOSES; VIEWED BY 120,000 - New York Times May 12, 1930</ref>
• May 12–13 – Flying for Aéropostale, the French pilot Jean Mermoz makes the first nonstop commercial flight across the South Atlantic Ocean, flying from Dakar, Senegal, to Natal, Brazil, in the float-equipped Latécoère 28-3 mail plane Comte de la Vaulx. The Template:Convert flight takes 19 hours 35 minutes, and the plane carries Template:Convert of mail.<ref name="Aircraft, Secaucus 1978, p. 34">Mondey, David, ed., The Complete Illustrated History of the WorldTemplate:'s Aircraft, Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1978, Template:ISBN, p. 34.</ref> On the return flight, Mermoz is forced to ditch Comte de la Vaux at sea; although he, his two companions, and the mail are saved, the aircraft sinks and is lost.
• May 15 – Ellen Church becomes the world's first female flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport.
• May 18 – The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin leaves Friederichshafen, Germany, on the first airship flight across the South Atlantic, bound for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a trial flight to test the feasibility of regular airship service between Germany and Brazil.<ref name="Aircraft, Secaucus 1978, p. 34"/>
• May 23 – President Herbert Hoover presents the crew of the flying boat NC-4 with gold medals for completing the first transatlantic flight in 1919.<ref>A Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation: The Early Years, 1915-1938.</ref>
• May 27 – A CLASSA Ford 4-AT trimotor makes the first flight between Peninsular Spain and the Canary Islands, landing at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife Island.

June

• June 3 – In a brief ceremony on the grounds of the White House in Washington, D.C., the U.S. National Aeronautic Association presents the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) with the 1929 Collier Trophy for the greatest achievement in American aviation in 1929 for developing the NACA cowling, a major advance in the reduction of aerodynamic drag that has enabled significant gains in speed and fuel efficiency. President Herbert Hoover presents the trophy to NACA chairman Dr. Joseph S. Ames.<ref name=hansennacacowling/>
• June 4 – United States Navy Lieutenant Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of Template:Convert in an F3W Apache
• June 5 – Just after takeoff from Jeffery Field in Boston, Massachusetts, for a flight to New York City with 15 people on board, the Colonial Air Transport Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor NC9675 noses down and crashes into the sea, coming to rest in Template:Convert of water Template:Convert from the breakwater. One of the passengers is killed and the aircraft is damaged beyond repair, but the other 12 passengers and both crew members survive.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident description</ref>
• June 13 – Making his 92nd crossing of the Andes carrying mail between Argentina and Chile for Aéropostale, French aviator Henri Guillaumet crashes his Potez 25 in bad weather at Laguna del Diamante near Mendoza, Argentina. He walks through three mountain passes before reaching a village and safety on June 19.

July

• July 12 – Flying a Waco JYM biplane to Chicago, Illinois, Northwest Airways pilot Mal Freeburg sees that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad trestle near Trevino, Wisconsin, is on fire shortly after he flies over a Burlington Blackhawk express passenger train headed for the trestle. He flies at low level back up the tracks and makes three low passes to warn the train, flashing his landing lights and dropping landing flares. The train stops only Template:Convert short of the burning trestle.<ref>Johnson, Frederick L., "Modest Mal," Aviation History, March 2012, p. 18.</ref>
• 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 19 – Record-holding aviator Frank Goldsborough dies in a crash in Vermont on his 20th birthday.
• July 20-August 1 – A Template:Convert race over Europe takes place as part of the Challenge 1930 contest.
• July 23 – Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss dies, aged 52.
• July 29 – The British airship R100 sets out on a test flight from the United Kingdom to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and back. She will arrive at Montreal 78 hours later, remain there for 12 days, then begin the return trip to the United Kingdom on August 13, arriving in London on August 16 after a flight of 57½ hours.<ref>Mondey, David, ed., The Complete Illustrated History of the WorldTemplate:'s Aircraft, Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1983, Template:ISBN, p. 29.</ref>

August

• August 3 - The Imperial Japanese Navy practices dive bombing for the first time, using fighters to sink the retired protected cruiser Akashi with Template:Convert practice bombs in Tokyo Bay.<ref>Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, Template:ISBN, p. 40.</ref>
• August 8 - End of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
• August 13 – Flying the Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship Texaco 13, Frank Hawks sets a new west-to-east transcontinental airspeed record for a flight across the continental United States, completing the flight in 12 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds. At the time, it is the fastest crossing of the United States ever made.<ref>[Pahl, Gerard, "Mystery Ship," Air Classics, Volume 41, No. 9, September 2005, p. 80.]</ref>
• August 22 – Attempting to avoid a thunderstorm in poor weather on a domestic passenger flight in Czechoslovakia from Kbely Airport in Bratislava to Brno, the Czechoslovak State Airlines Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor OK-FOR banks sharply to avoid a 35-meter-tall (115-foot-tall) smokestack, strikes the ground, and crashes at Jihlava, killing 12 of the 13 people aboard.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description</ref>
• August 23 - The Ford National Reliability Air Tour starts in Chicago.
• August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flies from Westfield, New Jersey.

September

• September 1–2 – Flying the Breguet 19 Super Bidon "?" from Paris to New York City, French aviators Dieudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte make the first nonstop westbound heavier-than-air flight across the North Atlantic Ocean between the European and North American mainlands, covering either Template:Convert, according to different sources, in 37 hours 18 minutes.
• September 3 – The Ford National Reliability Air Tour finishes in Chicago. Harry Russell takes first place, and Eddie August Schneider finishes in eight place, but wins the Great Lakes Trophy.

October

• October 1 – Western Air Express and Transcontinental Air Transport merge to form Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.,<ref name="twatimeline">TWA History Timeline Template:Webarchive</ref> which in 1950 will be renamed Trans World Airlines.
• October 5 – The British dirigible R101, at the time the world's largest airship, crashes in France while on a flight from Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, to Karachi in British India. Forty-eight of the 54 people on board are killed, including Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker; the Irish aviator and athlete Herbert Carmichael Irwin, who was the captain of R101; the noted British airship pilot and engineer George Herbert Scott; and British Secretary of State for Air Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson.
• October 7 – Upon the completion of the final game of the 1930 World Series in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frank Hawks flies photographs of the game to North Beach Airport in Queens, New York, in the Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship Texaco 13, delivering them only 20 minutes after the end of the game and faster than wire services, demonstrating that fast air courier services are feasible.
• October 9–10 – First flight by a Canadian, pilot Capt. J. Erroll Boyd (1891–1960), from North America (Harbour Grace, NL) to England, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Maple Leaf (aka, Columbia), navigated by the American, Lieut. Harry Connor. This flight was also notable for transporting mail bearing a surcharged stamp as a commemorative overprint.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• October 25 – Transcontinental and Western Air begins the first all-air coast-to-coast passenger service in the United States with regular passenger flights between New York, New York, and Los Angeles, California. The trip takes 30 hours and includes an overnight stop in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref name="twatimeline"/>
• October 30 – The Imperial Airways Handley Page W.8g Hamilton City of Washington (registration G-EBIX) crashes into high ground in dense fog at Boulogne, France, during a scheduled flight from Paris-Le Bourget Airport outside Paris to Croydon Airport in London. Three of the six people on board die.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description</ref>

November

• November 3 – Brothers Thomas Elmer Braniff and Paul Revere Braniff found their second airline, Braniff Airways, Inc. It eventually will become Braniff International Airways.
• November 13 – Braniff Airways begins operations, using Lockheed Vega aircraft to offer service between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Wichita Falls, Texas.
• November 21 – The Dornier Do R4 Superwal flying boat airliner I-RONY, operating on a passenger flight for the Italian airline Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA), disappears over the Mediterranean Sea during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Marseille, France, with the loss of all six people on board.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description</ref>
• November 24 – The Ford Motor Company Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor NX419H crashes on landing at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, killing both people on board.<ref>Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description</ref>

December

• The German aircraft company Bäumer Aero is liquidated at the end of 1930.
• December 3 – A commercial airline flight arrives in Jamaica for the first time when a Pan American Airways Consolidated Commodore flying boat lands in the harbor at Kingston.
• December 17 – The Junkers W 34 Bolivar makes the first international flight from Venezuela to Colombia to commemorate the centennial of the death of Simón Bolívar.<ref>globalsecurity.org Venezuelan Air Force: Fuerzas Aereas or Aviacion Aviación Militar Bolivariana</ref>

First flights

• Aichi AB-2
• Arado Ar 64
• Avro 626
• Bellanca Aircruiser
• Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket<ref>Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, Template:ISBN, p. 120.</ref>
• Dewoitine D.33<ref>Durand, William Frederick - Aerodynamic Theory. A General Review of Progress. Under a Grant of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Vol. 1. California Institute of Technology, 1943.</ref>
• Farman F.141
• Focke-Wulf A 32
• Focke-Wulf A 33
• Kawasaki Type 92
• Martin XT6M
• Nakajima E4N
• Nakajima Ki-6
• Northrop Alpha
• Pitcairn PA-8
• Polikarpov TB-2
• Potez 38
• Saro Cloud
• Texaco Eaglet, prototype of the Franklin PS-2
• Yokosuka K4Y
• Spring 1930 – RWD-4

January

• Potez 39
• January 13 – Farman F.300
• January 30 – Boeing Model 202, later redesignated Boeing XP-15<ref name="definitive81">Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 81.</ref>

February

• Boeing Model 205, later redesignated Boeing XF5B-1<ref name="definitive81"/>
• Latécoère 340 F-AKDI

March

• Dornier Do Y
• March 30 – Polikarpov I-6

April

• RWD-3
• April 29 - Polikarpov I-5

May

• Mitsubishi K3M (Allied reporting name "Pine")<ref>Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, Template:ISBN, pp. 254, 339.</ref>
• Berliner-Joyce XFJ-1<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 59.</ref>
• Cessna CR-2
• Curtiss XP-10<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 142.</ref>
• May 6 – Boeing Monomail
• May 16 – Blériot 110
• May 28 – Blackburn Segrave

June

• Curtiss XP-17 Hawk<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 143.</ref>
• June 12 – Handley Page H.P. 38, prototype of the Handley Page Heyford
• June 28 – Avro 621, prototype of the Avro Tutor and Avro Sea Tutor<ref>Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, Template:ISBN, p. 79.</ref>

July

• Saunders A.7 Severn
• July 18 - Blackburn Sydney

August

• August 24 – Latécoère 380

September

• Lockheed Altair
• September 1 - Berliner-Joyce P-16
• September 12 - Taylor E-2
• September 24 - Short Rangoon

October

• PZL P.7
• October 5 – Junkers Ju 52
• October 10 – Short S.15 K.F.1, prototype of the Kawanishi H3K
• October 13 – Junkers Ju 52/1m
• October 16 – Saro A.21 Windhover ZK-ABW
• October 22 – Fairchild 100

November

• First week of November – Couzinet 20
• November 14 – Handley Page HP.42
• November 18 – Boeing Model 96, later redesignated Boeing XP-9<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, pp. 81, 83.</ref>
• November 25 – Fairey Hendon
• November 27 – Bernard 80 GR

December

• Curtiss XP-21<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 132.</ref>
• Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter
• December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6

Entered service

• Polikarpov R-5 with the Soviet Air Force
• Saro A17 Cutty Sark

January

• January 1 – Avro 618 Ten with Australian National Airways

May

• May 1 – Curtiss F8C Helldiver, the first United States Navy dive bomber designed as such, with Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1B) aboard Template:USS<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 140.</ref>

July

• Levasseur PL.7 with French Naval Aviation aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn

November

• November 9 – Ford RR-4, a version of the Ford Trimotor, with the U.S. Navy.<ref>Polar, Norman, "'There's a Ford in Your Future'," Naval History, December 2015, p. 15.</ref>

Retirements

• Curtiss P-1 Hawk by the United States Army Air Corps<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 128.</ref>

May

• Curtiss TS-1 by the United States Navy<ref>Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 119.</ref>