1913 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1913:
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Events
- The Serbian air force is established as an army air service. Six officers receive pilot training in France.
- First air strike ever. Mexican pilot Gustavo Salinas Camilla and Frenchman Didier Masson, attacked land and naval federal forces for rebels led by Pancho Villa.
January
- January 13 - Brazilian naval aviation commences with the foundation of a flying school.
February
- February 11 - the Chilean air force is established at Lo Espejo (today El Bosque).
March
- China obtains twelve military aircraft from France.
- March 15 - The US Army forms the 1st Aero Squadron under Capt Charles Chandler at Texas City to scout for Mexican incursions along the border.
April
- April 16 - First contest for the Schneider Trophy. Maurice Prévost wins in a Deperdussin monoplane, completing the 28 circuits of the 10 km (6.2 mile) course with an average speed of 73.63 km/h (45.75 mph)
- April 24 - O. Gilbert flies 825 km from Villacoublay to Vitoria (8 hours and 23 minutes).
- April 27 - Robert G. Fowler makes first flight across the Isthmus of Panama. Technically this is the first flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
July
- July 1 - Royal Netherlands Army forms its Aviation Division (Luchtvaart Afdeling)
August
- August 7 - Aviation pioneer Samuel Cody is killed in a crash
- August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
September
- September 1 - Frenchman Adolphe Pégoud does the first upside-down flight.
- September 9 - Prevost reaches 204 km/h with the "Deperdussin-racing aeroplane".
- September 13 - Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian engineer and inventor, dies near Câmpina, Romania, while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his Vlaicu II airplane
- September 23 - Roland Garros makes the first air crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. He flies the 729 km (453 miles) from Saint-Raphaël to Bizerte in 7 hours 53 minutes.
December
- December 13-14 - German balloonist Hugo Kaulen stays aloft for 87 hours. This record lasted until 1935.
First flights
May
- May 13 - Sikorsky Ruskii Vitiaz, the world's first four-engined aircraft. It was also the first aeroplane with a lavatory.
September
November
December
- December 11 - Sikorsky Ilya Murometz
Entered service
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