1906 in aviation
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Template:Short description Template:Yearbox Template:Portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1906:
Events
January–December
- 17 January – The Zeppelin LZ2 makes its first flight, which ends in a forced landing.<ref name=CoFAT>Century of Flight Aviation Timeline 1906 - Archived November 16, 2010</ref>
- 18 January – The Zeppelin LZ2 is destroyed in high winds.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- 27 February – American aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley dies at Aiken, South Carolina.<ref>Daniel, Clifton, ed., Chronicle of the 20th Century, Mount Kisco, New York: Chronicle Publications, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 86.</ref>
- 5 March – Romanian inventor Traian Vuia begins testing his Vuia 1 at Montesson, France, by driving it as an automobile without its wings mounted. It is a high-wing monoplane powered by a carbonic acid gas engine, and is first aircraft with pneumatic tires.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- 18 March – At Montesson, Traian Vuia achieves several short hops in his Vuia 1, traveling about Template:Convert at an altitude of about Template:Convert. He flies four more times; one flight travels some Template:Convert at an altitude of Template:Convert, and the longest flight is Template:Convert, the first manned flights of a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
- April 10 – Charles Frederick Page was granted the first patent for an aircraft in the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 11 August – Mrs. C.J. Miller becomes the first American woman to ride as a passenger in a dirigible.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- September – A military balloon is flown over Stonehenge in England carrying out the first aerial photography in archaeology.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 12 September – Jacob Ellehammer makes a tethered flight with his aeroplane "Semi-biplane" on the tiny island of Lindholm. The plane was attached to the ground by a rope and described a few circles.
- 13 September – Alberto Santos-Dumont successfully flies his Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft for the first time, on the grounds of the Château de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne public park in Paris.<ref>Daniel, Clifton, ed., Chronicle of the 20th Century, Mount Kisco, New York: Chronicle Publications, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 93.</ref>
- 30 September – The Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is awarded for the first time. It goes to Lieutenant Frank Lahm of the United States Army, who flies Template:Convert in the balloon United States from Paris to Fylingdales Moor in North Yorkshire, England. It is the first international balloon race.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- 9 October – The Zeppelin LZ 3 flies for the first time, making a Template:Convert round trip in two hours.<ref>Phythyon, John R., Jr., Great War at Sea: Zeppelins, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Avalanche Press, Inc., 2007, p. 6.</ref>
- 23 October – Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Archdeacon Prize as for a flight of Template:Convert in his Santos-Dumont 14-bis at the Château de Bagatelle's grounds.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- November – Brothers Gabriel and Charles Voisin open an aircraft factory in Billancourt, France, beginning the Voisin company.<ref>Daniel, Clifton, ed., Chronicle of the 20th Century, Mount Kisco, New York: Chronicle Publications, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 94.</ref>
- 12 November – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies Template:Convert in 21 seconds at the Château de Bagatelle's grounds in the Santos-Dumont 14-bis which has been recently equipped with primitive interplane ailerons. This is recorded as the first officially observed aeroplane flight in Europe and, although occurring after longer flights by the Wright brothers in the United States, is the first officially recognized airplane distance record.<ref name=CoFAT/>
- 16 November – The first flight of the French Lebaudy-built semi-rigid airship Patrie takes place.