Januray 19 - Jules Védrines claims a FF25,000 prize by landing an aircraft (a Caudron G-3) on the roof of a department store in Paris. Védrines is injured and his aircraft is damaged beyond repair in the hard landing in a space only 28 m x 12 m (92 ft x 40 ft).
February
February 8 - Henry Farman carries 11 paying passengers in his F.60 Goliath plane from Paris to London on first commercial flight between the two cities.
March 22 - Henry Farman carries 11 paying passengers in his Farman F.60 Goliath plane from Paris to London, in what became the first commercial flight between the two European cities.
May 18 - Harry Hawker and Lt Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempt a non-stop Atlantic crossing but are forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper awards them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway.
June
June 1 - A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.
June 12 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).
July 1 - London's first airport is opened, at Hounslow Heath. The facilities include a permanent Customs hall.
July 2 - Airship R 34 sets out of the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives in back in the UK on July 13.
July 14 - A Fiat BR makes the first direct flight from Rome to Paris.
September 24 - the Schneider Trophy race is flown at Bournemouth, UK. An Italian Savoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilot Guido Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
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