1938 in aviation

{| cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 align=right style="border:solid 2px #87CEEB;margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em;"\n!style="background:#d6e6f6;border-bottom:solid 2px #87CEEB;"|Years
in aviation\n|-\n|align=center|1933\n|-\n|align=center|1934\n|-\n|align=center|1935\n|-\n|align=center|1936\n|-\n|align=center|1937\n|-\n|align=center style="background:#87CEEB"|1938\n|-\n|align=center|1939\n|-\n|align=center|1940\n|-\n|align=center|1941\n|-\n|align=center|1942\n|-\n|align=center|1943\n|} This is a list of aviation-related events from 1938:

Table of contents

1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

\n* Imperial Airways inaugurates scheduled service from London to Montreal. Pan American World Airways is banned from British airports out of fears that more advanced U.S. aircraft will drive Imperial out of the transatlantic market.

• November 5-7 - Non-stop flight by a pair of Vickers Wellesleys from Egypt to Darwin, Australia.

First flights

• January\n**5 - Miles Mentor\n**24 - Armstrong Whitworth Ensign\n*September\n**29 - Supermarine Sea Otter\n*October\n**11 - Westland Whirlwind prototype L 6844\n**15 - Bristol Beaufort prototype L 4441\n*December\n**4 - Miles M.18\n**10 - Lockheed Hudson\n**12 - Fairey Albacore prototype L 7074\n**22 - De Havilland Flamingo\n**23 - Blackburn Roc prototype L 3057\n**28 - Blackburn Botha

Entered service

\n*June\n**Westland Lysander with No. 16 Squadron RAF\n*September\n**Handley Page Hampden with No. 49 Squadron RAF\n*October\n**Vickers Wellington with No. 9 Squadron RAF