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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1923:
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Events
January
- Air Union is created by the merger of Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes (CMA) with Grands Express Aériens (CGEA).
February
- The first take-off and landing on the new Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō is made by a British pilot in a Mitsubishi 1MF.
- The RAF conducts operations in Southern Iraq against uprisings led by Sheik Mahmud Barzenci.
- February 1 - the Danish Army Flying Corps is established
March
- Dobrolet is formed, as the first Soviet airline. It will later become part of Aeroflot.
- March 17 - the US government authorises Army aircraft to drop calcium arsenate on Louisiana's cotton fields in order to kill weevils.
April
- April 10 - Daimler Airways begins the first scheduled service between London and Berlin (via Bremen and Hamburg).
- April 16 - 17 - Lt John Arthur Macready and Lt Oakley Kelley establish a new endurance record, staying aloft for 36 hours 5 minutes in a Fokker T-2, covering a distance of 2,518 miles (4,052 km).
May
- May 2-3 - Kelly MacReady complete the first non-stop flight from New York to Los Angeles, in 27 hours in a Fokker T-2.
- May 3 - the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation is formed by Igor Sikorsky at a Long Island chicken farm.
- May 23 - Belgian airline SABENA is formed, adding new European routes to SNETA's routes in Belgian Congo that it takes over.
June
- June 14 - New Zealand forms its first military aviation services, fore-runners of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
July
- July 19 - Czechoslovakian airline CSA commences operations.
August
- August 21 - first electric Airway Beacons start appearing at US airfields, to assist in night flying operations.
- August 28 - Lt John Richter and Lowell Smith establish a new endurance record of 37 hours 15 minutes in an Airco DH.4, covering 3,293 miles (5,299 km). They are refueled fifteen times during the flight.
September
- September 5 - US Army bombers carry out anti-shipping exercises, sinking the obsolete battleships USS Virginia and USS New Jersey.
- September 28 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Cowes, UK. Won by David Rittenhouse (USA) in a Curtiss CR.3 at 285.5 km/h (177.4 mph).
October
- October 6 - Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer Trophy Race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).
- October 15 – First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent.
December
- December 21 The French dirigible Dixmude exploded over the Mediterranean Sea en route from Cuers-Pierrefeu to Algeria after being struck by lightning. All 52 crew members on board perished.
First flights
January
- January 9 - Cierva C.4
- January 19 - Armstrong Whitworth Wolf
March
May
June
- June 2 – Boeing XPW-9
July
- July 30 - de Havilland DH.50
August
September
- September 3 - USS Shenandoah
- September 3 - Curtiss R2C
October
- October 2 - de Havilland Humming Bird
- October 23 - Handley Page Hyderabad
Entered service
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