January 16 - Maj A.S.C. MacLaren and Cpt Robert Halley arrive in Delhi, completing the first England-India flight, in a Handley Page V/1500
January 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).
June 23 - six Zeppelins (LZ 46 , LZ 79 , LZ 91 , LZ103 , LZ 110 , and LZ 111 ) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
July
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.
August 25 - the first daily international flights begin, with the Aircraft Transport and Travel company flying a de Havilland DH.16 between London and le Bourget.
September
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.
September 30 - the British Aerial Transport Company begins domestic flights between London and Birmingham in a Koolhoven FK.26 .
October 8 - The US Army Air Service begins a trans-continental air race. By the time Lt Belvin Maynard wins it on October 31, seven airmen have died in the attempt.
October 11 - Handley Page Transport begins offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. They are sold at 3s.
November 14 - The American Railway Express Company hires a Handley Page V/1500 to carry 454 kg (1,000 lb) of parcels from New York to Chicago, but the attempt fails due to mechanical problems.
