1935 in aviation

January
January 11-12 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across part of the Pacific from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.

January 15 - Maj James Doolittle establishes a record for a transport flight across the United States, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in 11 hours 59 minutes.

February
February 3 - Hugo Junkers dies

February 12 - USS Macon airship sinks off Point Sur, California.

February 22 - Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 minutes.

March
March 9 - the Nazi Government in Germany announces the formation of the Luftwaffe, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles

March 28 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.

April
April 1 - Swissair begins services between Zürich and London

April 13 - Qantas and Imperial Airways provide regular connecting flights between Brisbane, Australia, and London

April 16-17 - A Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 makes the first airline flight from the continental US to Hawaii.

May
May 18 - the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky crashes near Tushino after a mid-air collision. Fifty-six people are killed, making it the worst air crash at this time.

June
June 24 - One Ford Trimotor of Servicio Aéreo Colombiano (SACO) crashed with another Ford Trimotor of Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aéreo (SCADTA) in Medellín, Colombia. Fifteen people were killed including the world famous tango singer Carlos Gardel.

July
July 1 - The Flying Keys set endurance record by flying a Curtiss Robin non-stop for 653 hours, 34 minutes

August
August 5 - Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and his passenger Will Rogers are killed in a crash in Alaska.

October
October 1 - The first company to bear the name British Airways is formed, by the merger of Hillman Airways, Spartan Air Lines and United Airways.

November
November 8 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Tommy Pethybridge in the Lady Southern Cross disappear over the Andaman Sea, never to be seen again.

November 11 - A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 ft (22,066 m).

November 11-13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percival Gull. She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.

November 22 - Pan Am commences the first trans-Pacific airmail service, flying a Martin M-130 from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam.

December
December 27 - the USAAC uses aerial bombardment to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa, Hawaii that is threatening Hilo's waterworks.

First flights

February
February 24 - Heinkel He 111

March
March 24 - Avro Anson military prototype K 4771

April
Douglas DB-1, prototype of the B-18 Bolo
April 1 - The NA-16 prototype of the T-6 Texan/Harvard
April 12 - Bristol Britain First, prototype of the Bristol Blenheim

May
May 19 - Consolidated XPBY-1 later named Catalina
May 28 - Messerschmitt Bf 109
May 31 - Fairchild Model 45

June
June 19 - Vickers Wellesley
June 23 - Bristol Bombay

July
July 11 - Yakovlev AIR-19, prototype of the Yakovlev UT-2
July 17 - Boeing model 299, prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress
July 27 - Miles Falcon Six

August
August 8 - Morane-Saulnier MS.405
August 12 - De Havilland Dragonfly

September
September 17 - Junkers Ju 87

November
November 6 - Hawker Hurricane K5083

December
December 17 - Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3
December 18 - Miles Nighthawk

Entered service

November
Hawker Hind