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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1924:
Events
January
- January 29 - Pateras Pesara flies an experimental helicopter in Paris. The machine flew 800 metres (2,640 ft) in just over 10 minutes.
February
- February 20 - Three French Army officers make the first two-way aerial crossing of the Sahara Desert in a Breguet 14.
March
- Huff Darland Dusters is established as the world's first crop dusting company in Georgia (United States) . It will eventually grow into Delta Air Service , then Delta Airlines.
- March 25 - Royal Air Force officers McLaren, Plenderleith, and Andrews set off in an attempted round-the-world flight in a Vickers Vulture II. Their attempt will ultimately fail in Siberia in early August.
April
- April 1 - Imperial Airways is formed, with the backing of the British government.
- April 1 - Britain's Fleet Air Arm is established
- April 1 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
May
- May 19 - the first aerial circumnavigation of Australia is carried out, by an RAAF crew in a Fairey IIID.
June
- June 23 - Lt Russell Maughan makes the first one-day crossing of the United States, completing the flight from Long Island to San Francisco in a Curtiss PW-8 in 21 hours, 48 minutes.
July
- July 1 - Regular night airmail services commence in the United States, linking Chicago with Cheyenne.
- July 17 - Pelletier d'Oisy completes a flight from Paris to Tokyo. The journey takes 120 hours in the air.
August
- The Bolivian Air Force is formed, as the Cuerpo de Aviación.
- August 8 - US Navy airship USS Shenandoah docks with the USS Patoka while the latter is underway, showing that airships could operate from support ships far out to sea.
- August 24 - the USS Richmond rescues the crew of an Italian flying boat that is forced down in the Arctic Ocean by bad weather.
September
- September 11 - Canada's first regular airmail service begins, with Laurentide Air Services linking Haileybury with Rouyn.
- September 28 - six Douglas World Cruiser s arrive in Seattle, completing the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. They had left the city on April 6, taking 175 days for the journey.
October
- October 12-15 - transportation of the Zeppelin-Airship "LZ 126" (ZR III "Los Angeles") to USA under guidance of H. Eckener.
November
- November 11 - Lt Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the USS California.
- November 24 - a KLM Fokker F.VII makes the first flight from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies, taking 127 hours 16 minutes.
December
- December 13 - in an early parasite fighter experiment, Lt Clyde Flinter unsuccessfully attempts to dock his Sperry Messenger with the US Army airship TC-3 .
- December 14 - a Martin MO-1 is launched using an explosive-driven catapult fitted to a turret on USS Mississippi, requiring less distance than ever for the take-off.
First flights
March
- Fairey Fawn
May
- May 4 - Sikorsky S-29-A
- May 26 - Tupolev ANT-2
June
- June 23 - Focke-Wulf A-16
August
- Savoia Marchetti S.55
- Hawker Cygnet
- August 21 - Fokker F.VII
September
- Aero A-24
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