1936 in Aviation - Events

Events

  • The Royal Air Force's first monoplane bomber, the Avro Anson, enters service.
  • The German Luftwaffe begins experiments with helle Nachtjagd (abbreviated Henaja) techniques, the operation of night fighters with the aid of searchlights.
  • The Soviet aviator Valery Chkalov with two crew members makes a non-stop flight in a Tupolev ANT-25 to Udd Island in the Arctic.
  • The Bureau of Air Commerce begins to develop a nationwide air traffic control system in the United States.
  • The Curtiss-Wright Corporation reorganizes, amalgamating all manufacturing into the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which builds aircraft, and the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, which builds aircraft engines.

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