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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936:
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Events
February
- British Marine Aircraft Ltd. was established at Hamble, Hampshire to produce Sikorsky S-42-A flying boats under licence in the United Kingdom but nothing came of this. The company subsequently became Folland Aircraft Limited.
- February 13 - Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa
March
April
- Aer Lingus - Ireland's national airline founded.
May
- May 4-7 - Amy Johnson sets a new England-South Africa speed record of 3 days 6 hours 26 minutes in a Percival Gull Six.
July
- July 14 - The British Royal Air Force is re-organised on functional grounds and Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Training Command are established.
- July 20 - Twenty Junkers Ju 52s ferry Spanish Nationalist troops from Morocco to Spain in the world's first major military airlift.
September
- September 4-5 - Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island
- 11 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 5000 kg (11,023 lb) to 8116 m (26,627 ft).
- 16 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 10000 kg (22,046 lb) to 6605 m (21,670 ft).
- 20 September - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 12000 kg (26,455 lb) to 2700 m (8,858 ft).
October
- 28 October - TB-3-4AM-34FRN with A. B. Yumashev at the controls set a payload-to-altitude record: 5000 kg (11,023 lb) to 8980 m (29,462 ft).
December
- December 21 - Eddie August Schneider, Bert Acosta, and Frederic Ives Lord, as the Yankee Squadron, travel by ship to fight in the Spanish Civil War with the Loyalists.
First flights
January
February
March
- March 4 - German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg
- March 5 - Supermarine Spitfire
- March 10 - Fairey Battle prototype K 4303
- March 17 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitley prototype K 4586
May
June
- June 15 - Vickers Wellington prototype K 4049
- June 15 - Westland Lysander prototype K 6127
- June 21 - Handley Page Hampden prototype K 4240
- June 25 - Bristol Blenheim prototype K 7033
- June 26 - Focke-Wulf Fw 61 D-EBVU, first fully-controllable helicopter
July
- July 3 - Short Empire prototype RMA Canopus
October
December
- December 13 - PZL.37 Łoś
- December 21 - Junkers Ju 88 V1 prototype D-AQEN
- December 22 - North American XB-21 s/n 38-485
Entered service
January
- Hawker Hind with the Royal Air Force
March
July
November
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