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On This Day: 1930

Aviation events for 1930

January 23: Clyde Tombaugh photographs Pluto.
 
January 25: American Airlines is consolidated into one airline.
 
February 25: Ralph O’Neil lands in Miami on the first mail service of America airline New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) between Buenos Aires and New York after a difficult 6-day flight from Argentina.
 
May 5: The first solo flight from England to Australia by a woman is made by British Amy Johnson in a De Havilland D.H.60G Moth. She flies from Croydon, England to Darwin, Australia in 19 days.
 
May 6: Boeing’s first commercial monoplane, the Monomail, makes its first flight.
 
May 15: The first airline stewardess is Ellen Church, a nurse who flies on the Boeing Air Transport flight between San Francisco, California and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
 
June 24: Dr. Albert Taylor and Leo Young of the Aircraft Research Laboratory, near Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., succeed in tracing the position of airplanes in flight using wireless detection equipment.
 
July 16: Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) is formed when Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express merge.
 
July 29: The first transatlantic passenger flight takes off from England for Canada. HM Airship R100, a rigid airship, made the 3,300 mile crossing in 78 hours, landing in a suburb of Montreal. Sadly, her sister ship, R101, would crash three months later, killing 48 people, making it the second worst airship crash in history.
 
August 18: Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and crew make the first east to west crossing of the Atlantic from Germany to New York.
 
October 25: Using Douglas DC-2 aircraft, TWA, then known as Transcontinental & Western Air, commences the Lindbergh Route, the first scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles. The initial schedule included an overnight stop in Kansas City.
 
October 25: Using Douglas DC-2 aircraft, TWA, then known as Transcontinental & Western Air, commences the Lindbergh Route, the first scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles. The initial schedule included an overnight stop in Kansas City.
 
November 18: The Boeing XP-9 monoplane fighter makes its 1st flight in Dayton, Ohio.
 
December 22: The Tupolev ANT-6 heavy bomber makes its first flight in U.S.S.R.
 
 
 

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