1906 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1906:

Table of contents

1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

March

• Traian Vuia: a short powered flight without headwind or catapult assisted takeoff. Not launched from a height.

• September 30 - The Gordon Bennett Trophy for ballooning is awarded for the first time. It goes to Lt Frank Lahm of the US Army, who flies 647 km (402 miles) in the balloon United States.

• The Voisin brothers test a floatplane on Enghien Lake.
• November 12 - Alberto Santos-Dumont makes what is generally accepted as the first powered, piloted flight in Europe. He flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France in a 220 m (770 ft) flight that lasts 21 seconds.

• January 17 - Zeppelin LZ 2 (makes a forced landing and is destroyed in high winds the following day).

• October 9 - Zeppelin LZ 3