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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December 2 First flights 2.1 April 2.2 May 2.3 June 2.4 August 2.5 December 3 Entered service 3.1 February 3.2 April 3.3 June 3.4 September

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 19 - First Zeppelin raid on the UK by the German Navy.

[edit] February

• February 15 - Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets bombers attack the Vistula-Dobrzhani area of Poland

[edit] March

• March 7 - the first British tactical bombing raids made in support of ground troops made in Menin an Courtai.

[edit] April

• April 1 - French pilot Lt Roland Garros scores the first kill using a non-synchronised machine gun when he shoots down an Albatros observation plane from his Morane Saulnier Type L.
• April 1 - French ace Jean Navarre, with an observer Lt. Robert, score the first kill.
• April 18 - Roland Garros is shot down and taken captive.
• April 26 - 2nd Lt William Rhodes-Moorhouse is the first airman to receive the Victoria Cross (posthumous).

[edit] May

• May 26 - Oberleutnant Kästner and Lt Georg Langhoff score the first German air-to-air victory of World War I.
• May 31 - First Zeppelin raid on London, made by LZ 38. Seven people killed, fourteen wounded.

[edit] June

• June 6 - LZ 37 becomes the first Zeppelin destroyed in air-to-air combat when it is bombed by Flt Sub-Lt Reginald Warneford, RNAS.

[edit] July

• July 1 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first aerial victory by a true fighter plane in history, flying his Fokker M.5K/MG production prototype of the Fokker Eindecker, downing a Morane-Saulnier two-seat "parasol" observation aircraft.
• July 6 - Lt Oswald Boelcke claims his first victory, a Blériot Parasol, while flying an Albatros C.I two-seater with Lt von Wühlisch as the observer & gunner.
• July 25 - Captain Lanoe Hawker of the RFC wins first Victoria Cross for aerial combat, over France.

[edit] August

• August 1 - Lt Max Immelmann shoots down his first aircraft, beginning his career as an ace and the period that will become known as the "Fokker scourge"
• August 12 - Flt Cdr Charles Edmonds becomes the first pilot to attack a ship with an air-launched torpedo. He is flying a Short Type 184 from HMS Ben-my-Chree. His target is a Turkish supply ship.
• August 19 - Lt Oswald Boelcke shoots down his first aircraft flying a Fokker E.I fitted with a gun synchronizer.
• August 20 - The first sustained aerial bombing offensive is made by Italian Caproni Ca.2s against Austria-Hungary.
• August 31 - the first French ace Adolphe Pegoud is killed in combat. He scored 6 victories.

[edit] October

• October 15 - Orville Wright sells the Wright Company to a group of New York investors. The Wright Company was founded in 1909 by Orville and his late brother Wilbur Wright.

[edit] November

• November 3 - Flt Sub-Lt Fowler makes the first take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout from HMS Vindex.
• November 6 - A Curtiss AB-2 piloted by Lt Cdr Henry Mustin is catapulted from the deck of USS North Carolina while the ship is underway.

[edit] December

• December 12 - Leutnant Theodor Mallinckrodt makes the initial "hop" of the world's first practical all-metal aircraft, the Junkers J 1.

[edit] First flights

[edit] April

• April 11 - Zeppelin-Staaken R.I

[edit] May

• SPAD A.2

[edit] June

• June 1 - Airco DH.2

[edit] August

• August 14 - Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.9

[edit] December

• Sopwith 1½ Strutter
• December 12 - Junkers J 1, the first practical all-metal aircraft
• December 15 - Anatra D
• December 17 - Handley Page O/400

[edit] Entered service

[edit] February

• February 5 - Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus with No. 5 Squadron RFC

[edit] April

• Morane-Saulnier Type N

[edit] June

• Fokker Eindecker

[edit] September

• Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2 with No. 6 Squadron RFC

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