This is a list of aviation-related events from 1919:
Events
January
- January 8 - Civil aviation resumes in Germany
- January 10 - Airco DH.4s of No.2 (Communications) Squadron, RAF are converted for transporting passengers and mail between London and Paris, in support of the Versailles Peace Conference
- January 16 - Maj A.S.C. MacLaren and Cpt Robert Halley arrive in Delhi, completing the first England-India flight, in a Handley Page V/1500
- January 19 - Jules Védrines claims a FF25,000 prize by landing an aircraft (a Caudron G-3) on the roof of a department store in Paris. Védrines is injured and his aircraft is damaged beyond repair in the hard landing in a space only 28 m x 12 m (92 ft x 40 ft).
February
- February 5 - Beginning of regular flights between Berlin and Weimar by the Deutsche Luft-Reederei with AEG and DFW biplanes.
- February 8 - Henry Farman carries 11 paying passengers in his plane from Paris to London on first commercial flight between the two cities.
March
April
May
- A Fairey IIIC seaplane is used for a regular newspaper run, carrying the Evening Times to towns along the Kent coast.
- May 8 - A US Navy flying boat, NC-4, piloted by Coast Guard pilot Elmer F. Stone begins an Atlantic crossing, flying by short stages from Long Island, New York to Lisbon, Portugal. It arrives 19 days later on May 28.
- May 15 - A transcontinental air route between Chicago and Cleveland is inaugurated by US Mail.
- May 18 - Harry Hawker and Lt Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempt a non-stop Atlantic crossing but are forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper awards them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway.
June
- June 1 - A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.
- June 12 - Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).
- June 14 - Cpt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten Brown set out on the first successful non-stop Atlantic crossing, flying a Vickers Vimy from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours. They win £10,000 from the Daily Mail and are both knighted.
- June 23 - Six Zeppelins (LZ 46, LZ 79, LZ 91, LZ103, LZ 110, and LZ 111) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
July
- July 1 - London's first airport is opened, at Hounslow Heath. The facilities include a permanent Customs hall.
- July 2 - The Airship R34 achieves the first airship crossing of the Atlantic and the first East-West Atlantic flight, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives in back in the UK on July 13.
- July 14 - A Fiat BR makes the first direct flight from Rome to Paris.
- To protest against the fact that pilots have to parade on foot at the victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the famous Arc de Triomphe.
- July 21 - Anthony Fokker founds the Dutch Aircraft Factory at Schiphol.
August
September
- September 19 - CMA (Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes) commences a regular service between Paris and London, using ex-military Breguet 14s.
- September 24 - the Schneider Trophy race is flown at Bournemouth, UK. An Italian Savoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilot Guido Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
- September 30 - the British Aerial Transport Company begins domestic flights between London and Birmingham in a Koolhoven FK.26.
- Commander Biard, flying the Supermarine route between Southampton and Le Havre, knocks his passenger out during the flight. The man, a Belgian banker named Lowenstein, wanted to open his umbrella to protect himself from the wind and rain.
October
- October 4 - A new altitude world record of 31,569 ft is set by American pilot Rudolp Schroeder, flying a Le Père-Lusac 11.
- October 7 - KLM is formed.
- October 8 - The US Army Air Service begins a trans-continental air race. By the time Lt Belvin Maynard wins it on October 31, seven airmen have died in the attempt.
- October 11 - Handley Page Transport begins offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. The meals, consisting of a sandwich, fruits and chocolate, are sold at 3 shillings each.
- October 13 - Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed in Paris.
- October 20 - The French pilot Bernard de Romanet, flying a Nieuport-Delage 29v, sets a new world speed record of 166.92 mph.
November
December
- December 5 - Avianca is founded as the Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transporte Aéreo in Barranquilla.
- December 18 - Sir John Alcock is killed in a crash at Rouen.
First flights
January
February
April
- British Aerial Transport Company F.K.26 Commercial - first purpose-built airliner
May
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July
November
December
Entered service
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