1937 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937:

Table of contents

1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

• April 12 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.

• May 6 - German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

• January
  • 13 - Fairey Fulmar
• February
  • 9 - Blackburn Skua
• March
  • Miles Magister
  • 10 - Hawker Henley
• May
  • 20 - De Havilland Albatross
• June
  • 18 - De Havilland Don
  • 19 - Airspeed Oxford
  • 22 - De Havilland Moth Minor
• July
  • 27 - Short Mayo Flying-boat / seaplane composite
• August
  • 11 - Boulton Paul Defiant prototype K 8310
• October
  • 16 - Short Sunderland

• March
  • Armstrong Whitworth Whitley with No. 10 Squadron RAF
  • Bristol Blenheim with No. 114 Squadron RAF
• April
  • Vickers Wellesley
  • 16 - Supermarine Stranraer
• June
  • Fairey Battle with No. 63 Squadron RAF
• October
  • Miles Magister
• November
  • Airspeed Oxford