1938 in aviation Information & 1938 in aviation Links at HealthHaven.com

Years in aviation:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
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Years:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1938:

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Imperial Airways inaugurates scheduled service from London to Montreal. Pan American World Airways is banned from British airports out of fears that more advanced U.S. aircraft will drive Imperial out of the transatlantic market.

January

February

February 15-27 - Six USAAC B-17 Flying Fortresses make a goodwill tour of Latin America, traveling 12,000 miles (19,312 km) to Lima, Buenos Aires, Santiago and back.

April

April 20 - British Air Commodore Arthur Travers Harris makes a purchasing trip to the United States to select aircraft to expand the Royal Air Force. The Lockheed Hudson and North American Harvard are chosen.

May

May 12 - three B-17 Flying Fortresses use dead reckoning navigation to intercept the ocean liner SS Rex more than 600 miles at sea.
May 12 - the US Navy commissions its sixth aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise.
May 13—May 15 A Japanese Gasuden Koken aircraft breaks the closed-circuit world distance record of 11,651 km (7,240 mi).
May 17 - the US Congress passes the Naval Expansion Act, leading to the construction of the Essex class aircraft carriers
May 21 - first flight of the long-range seaplane Dornier Do 26.

June

A prototype Heinkel He 118 makes the first airborne tests of a turbojet engine
June 9 - the Nicaraguan Air Force is formed as the Fuerza Aérea de la Guarda Nacional
June 25 - Official public opening of Manchester Airport at Ringway (England) with extensive air display.

July

July 14 - Howard Hughes flies a Lockheed 14N around the world in 3 days 19 hours, to and from Floyd Bennett Field New York, more than halving the time that Wiley Post took to make the trip.

August

August 10-11 - a Lufthansa Focke-Wulf Fw 200 (D-ACON Brandenberg) makes a non-stop flight from Berlin to New York, via Hamburg, Glasgow, Newfoundland, and Halifax, Nova Scotia ,taking 24 hours 36 minutes for the trip.

September

September 10 - Germany prohibits all foreign air traffic in its airspace except along specific air corridors.

November

November 5-7 - Non-stop flight by a pair of Vickers Wellesleys from Egypt to Darwin, Australia. This sets a new world distance record of 7,158 miles (11,520 km).
November 28-30 - a Lufthansa Fw 200 makes the airline's first flight to Japan, flying non-stop from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra, Karachi, and Hanoi. The 14,228 km (8,841 mile) flight breaks the distance record and takes 46 hours 18 minutes.