1904 in aviation

Events

The Wrights apply for patents for their flying machine in Germany and France.

April
April 1 - Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie.

April 3 - Gabriel Voisin successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest flight on this day was 25 seconds.

May
May 23 - First flight attempt, unsuccessful, of the Wright Flyer II.

June
The British Army tests Samuel Cody's person-carrying kites at Aldershot.

August
August 3 - Major Thomas Scott Baldwin demonstrates the first successful U.S. Airship, "California Arrow", at Oakland, California

September
September 20 - Wilbur Wright makes the first circuit flight, in the Flyer II.

November
November 9 - Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles near Dayton, Ohio, the first flight of longer than five minutes.