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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1925:
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Events
January
March
- March 1 - Ryan Airlines begins regular services.
April
- April - First in-flight movie shown on a scheduled flight: First National's The Lost World on Imperial Airways service from London to the continent.[1]
- April 13 - First scheduled airfreight service begins in the US.
- April 15 - Ukvozdukhput begins services in the Ukraine.
May
- May 1 - the Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is established.
July
- July 13 - Western Air Express is founded.
August
- August 5 - Lloyd Aero Boliviano commences operations.
September
- September 2 - Zeppelin USS Shenandoah breaks up in a storm and crashes, killing fourteen.
October
- October 15 - a de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is successfully launched from the British airship R.33.
- October 18 - Sadi Lecointe wins the Beumont Cup, with a speed of 194 mph (312 km/h).
- October 26 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Baltimore, US. Won by Jimmy Doolittle (USA) in a Curtiss R3C at 374.2 km/h (232.6 mph).
First flights
January
- January 3 - Fairey Fox
- January 5 - Short Singapore
February
- Gloster Gamecock
- February 22 - de Havilland Moth
March
- March 10 - Supermarine Southampton
May
- May 2 - Douglas C-1
- May 10 - Armstrong Whitworth Atlas
July
- July 6 - Douglas DAM
- July 7 - Boeing 40
- July 29 - Blériot 155
August
- August 24 - Supermarine S.4
- 29 August - Gloster III
November
- November 9 - Fairey Firefly (biplane)
- November 26 - Tupolev TB-1
Entered service
May
- May 15 - Junkers G.23 with Swedish Air Lines
References
- ^ Robertson, Patrick (2001). Film Facts. London: Aurum. ISBN 1854106546.
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