This is a list ofaviation-related events from 1937:

• OverTushino airfield nearMoscow,Soviet aircraft fly in precise formations spelling "LENIN", "STALIN," and "USSR."^[1]
• Cuba establishes a naval aviation arm.^[2]
• Kawasaki Heavy Industries moves itsairframe manufacturing business into a new subsidiary, theKawasaki Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd.^[3]

• January 12 – Adventurer and filmmaker Martin Johnson, ofMartin and Osa Johnson fame, is killed along with four others in the crash ofWestern Air Express Flight 7 in mountainous terrain nearSaugus, California.
• January 19 –Howard Hughes sets a new record by flying fromLos Angeles toNew York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.

• Manchukuo officially establishes theManchukuo Imperial Air Force. In fact, it had existed unofficially since 1932.
• Hans von Ohain begins ground-testing aturbojet engine.
• February 3 – In theSpanish Civil War, aNationalist (rebel) attack onMálaga begins, supported by anItalian "legionary" air force of about 100 aircraft.^[4]
• February 18 – NationalistaceJoaquín García Morato plays a major role in an air-to-air engagement in which a Nationalist force ofFiat CR.32 fighters defeats aRepublican (loyalist) one ofPolikarpov I-15s, shooting down eight I-15s. The battle gives the Nationalists temporaryair superiority during theBattle of Jarama and demonstrates that the CR.32s could defeat the I-15s – which previously had dominated the CR.32s overSpain – if handled courageously and imaginatively.^[5]
• February 19 – Flying in heavy rain, theAirlines of AustraliaStinson Model ACity of Brisbane (registration VH-UHH)crashes in theMcPherson Range inAustralia′sLamington National Park. Both pilots and two of the five passengers die in the crash, and another passenger dies in a fall over awaterfall after he goes for help. The Australian authorBernard O'Reilly becomes a national hero in Australia when he hikes into the wilderness on February 28 to look for the plane and discovers the airliner's wreckage and the two surviving passengers on March 1.
• February 22–26 – The "International Circuit of the Oases" event atAlmaza Airport in Egypt. 41 competitors take part in two races – a 1303-mile (2097 km) handicap race, and a speed race. Competing aircraft arrived from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Romania.^[6]

• March 5 –Imperial Airways opens a newflying boat base atHythe,Hampshire,England.
• March 8 – A Nationalistoffensive begins againstGuadalajara, Spain, with support by Italian forces, including 50 fighters and 12 reconnaissance planes.^[7]
• March 16 – At the Avignon-Pujaut Military Training Center atAvignon,France, French aviator andparachutistEdith Clark is killed when the new model ofFrench Air Force parachute she is using fails to open on her third jump of the day and 200th of her career. She falls to her death from an altitude of 500 meters (1,640 feet).
• March 17 –Amelia Earhart flies aLockheed Electra fromOakland,California, toWheeler Field,Territory of Hawaii, on the first leg of an attempted circumnavigation of the world, making the flight in 15 hours 47 minutes.
• March 18 – TheBossi-Bonomi Pedaliante achieves the first sustained 1-km (0.621-mile)human-powered flight, with a catapult launch.
• March 20 – As Earhart tries to leaveHawaii for the second leg of her around-the-world flight, her Electra is severely damaged in an aborted takeoff fromLuke Field onFord Island inPearl Harbor, bringing her circumnavigation attempt to an end.^[8]
• March 22
  • Spanish Nationalist leaderFrancisco Franco orders hisNational Aviation (Aviación Nacional) force to begin a bombing campaign against theBasques in northern Spain.^[9]
  • The 71-year-oldEnglishaviator andornithologistMary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, dies in the crash of herde Havilland DH.60GIII Moth Major into theNorth Sea offGreat Yarmouth,England. Her body is never recovered.
• March 25 – TheTranscontinental and Western AirDouglas DC-2NC13730 crashes nose first into a gully nearClifton,Pennsylvania, due toatmospheric icing during a flight fromCamden Central Airport inCamden County,New Jersey, toAllegheny County Airport outsidePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing all 13 people on board.^[10] Doris Hammons, the first TWAflight attendant – known at the time as an "air hostess" – killed in an airplane crash, is among the dead.^[11]
• March 28 – Taking off in thick fog fromArcherfield,Queensland,Australia, for an early-morning mail and newspaper flight, theAirlines of AustraliaStinson Model ALismore (registration VH-UGG) crashes into trees, lands inverted, and explodes, killing its two-man crew.^[12]
• March 31 – A Spanish Nationalist ground offensive begins against the Basques, supported by 80 German aircraft based atVitoria-Gasteiz and 70 Spanish Nationalist and Italian aircraft based elsewhere in northern Spain. Opposing them are 20 to 30 Basque aircraft. On the first day, GermanJunkers Ju 52s conduct the firstterror bombing andstrafing of an undefended town inEurope, killing 248 people inDurango.^[13]
• March 31-April 4 – Supporting Nationalist forces, 40 to 50 aircraft per day bombOchandiano, Spain.^[14]

• Flying aBreda Ba.88 Lince,Breda chieftest pilotFurio Niclot sets two speed-over-distance world records, averaging 517 km/h (321.25 mph) over a 100-km (62.1-mile) distance and 475 km/h (295.15 mph) over a 1000-km (621-mile) circuit.^[15]
• TheMartin M-130flying boatHawaii Clipper completesPan American World Airways' 100th transpacific flight without a single passenger fatality. It is considered a remarkable safety record at the time.^[16]
• American Export Airlines is founded.
• April 6–9 –Masaaki Iinuma (pilot) andKenji Tsukagoshi (flight mechanic andnavigator) fly theMitsubishi Ki-15 J-BAAIKamikaze 15,366 km (9,542statute miles) fromTachikawa,Japan, toCroydon Airport inLondon in a record 94 hours 17 minutes 56 seconds, of which 51 hours 17 minutes 23 seconds is spent in the air at an average speed of 162 km/h (101.2 mph).^[17] It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly toEurope.
• April 11 –Trans-Canada Airlines – the futureAir Canada – is established. It will begin flight operations onSeptember 1.
• April 12 – SirFrank Whittle ground-tests the firstjet engine designed to power an aircraft at theBritish Thomson-Houston factory inRugby, England.
• April 13 –Frank Hawks flies theHawks Miller HM-1Time Flies about 1,100 miles (1,771 km) fromHartford,Connecticut, toMiami,Florida in 4 hours 55 minutes. After lunch, he flies the plane from Miami toNewark,New Jersey, in 4 hours 21 minutes. The aircraft is damaged on landing at Newark and Hawks opts not to rebuild it.^[18][19]
• April 20 – A new Nationalist advance begins inVizcaya province in northern Spain, supported by a preliminary aerial bombardment.^[20]
• April 26 – FourHeinkel He 111 and 23Junkers Ju 52 bombers of the GermanCondor Legion attackGuernica, Spain, in the first example of "carpet bombing" to demoralize a civilian population. Over three hours, the bombers drop 45,000 kg (99,207 lbs) of bombs, destroying 70% of the city and killing at least 1,000, and perhaps as many as a third (over 1,600 people) of its inhabitants.Messerschmitt Bf 109 andHeinkel He 51 fighters alsostrafe the town to kill any inhabitants they see. The town burns for three days. The damage shocks Spanish Nationalist military leaders, and the Condor Legion engages in no furtherarea bombing during theSpanish Civil War.^[21][22]
• April 27 –Henrich Focke andGerd Achgelis found theFocke-Achgelis company to design and manufacturehelicopters atHoykenkamp,Germany.

• In theSpanish Civil War, the Republicans have the technological and numerical superiority in the air, with about 450 aircraft, including 150 Soviet and 50 other fighters and 60 Soviet and 40 other bombers; they have lost about 150 aircraft since the war began in July 1936. The Nationalists have a little less than 400 aircraft, with about 150 flown by Spanish pilots, about 100 in the GermanCondor Legion, and about 120 in the Italian "legionary air force."^[23]
• May 6 – TheHindenburg disaster occurs when theGermandirigibleHindenburg catches fire and is destroyed at the end of atransatlantic flight while attempting to dock with amooring mast atNaval Air Station Lakehurst inLakehurst,New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 are killed, as is one member of the ground crew.
• May 8 –Lieutenant ColonelMario Pezzi ofItaly sets a new world altitude record of 15,655 meters (51,362 feet)^[24] in aCaproni Ca.161.
• May 8–14 –Dick Merrill and his copilot Jack Lambie make theHearst Publishing-sponsored "Anglo-American Goodwill Coronation Flight" – history's firsttransatlantic commercial round-trip flight – in theLockheed Model 10E ElectraDaily Express. DepartingNew York City on May 8 carrying photographs of theHindenburg disaster toLondon so that Hearst newspapers can be the first in theUnited Kingdom to publish them, they return on May 14 with photographs of the May 10 coronation ofKing George VI so that Hearst newspapers can be the first to publish photographs of the coronation in the United States. Merrill will win the 1937Harmon Trophy for the flight, and footage from the flight will be used to make the 1937 movieAtlantic Flight, in which Merrill and Lambie star.^[25]
• May 10 – With its engine turned off, aFocke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter makes the first landing for an Fw 61 usingautorotation.
• May 22 – TheSpanish Republican Air Force sends fighters on a risky flight across Nationalist-controlled territory to Republican bases in northern Spain to support theBasque defense against Nationalist forces there; seven of them arrive safely. Over the next several weeks, 50 more Republican aircraft –Polikarpov I-15 andI-16 fighters andPolikarpov R-5 light bombers – will make the trip, with 45 arriving safely.^[26]
• May 24 – A Spanish Republican air raid againstPalma,Majorca, hits the Italianarmed merchant cruiserBarletta – a unit of thenon-intervention patrol around Spain.– killing six of her crew.^[27]
• May 26 – Spanish Republican air raids by Soviet pilots narrowly miss the Germanpatrol shipAlbatross at Palma and damage the German "pocket battleship"Deutschland offIbiza, killing 31 and wounding 66 aboardDeutschland.^[28]

• TheLatécoère 521flying boatLieutenant de Vaisseau Paris makes a nonstop flight fromFrance toNatal,Brazil, then returns to France via theNorth Atlantic Ocean.
• June 1 –Transcontinental and Western Air introduces sleeper berths for airline passengers in theUnited States.^[11]
• June 3 – The Spanish Nationalist commanderGeneralEmilio Mola dies when his plane crashes on the hill ofAlcocero de Mola, nearBurgos.^[29]
• June 11 – An aerial bombardment by German aircraft of the Condor Legion and Italian aircraft precedes a renewed Nationalistoffensive against the Basque defensive perimeter aroundBilbao, Spain.^[30]
• June 12 – About 70 German and Italian aircraft attack Basque defenses around Bilbao over the course of several hours.^[31]
• June 14 – German aircraft of the Condor Legionstrafe refugees from Bilbao as they flee along the road toSantander.^[32]
• June 16 –Pan Am andImperial Airways begin regular passenger flights by flying boat betweenPort Washington, New York, andBermuda.^[33]
• June 18–20 –Transpolar flight of Chkalov, Baydukov and Belyakov: Soviet aviatorsValery Chkalov, G. F. Baidukov, and A. V. Belyakov fromMoscow in theSoviet Union toVancouver,Washington, in theUnited States via theNorth Pole in aTupolev ANT-25.
• June 25 – Flying aFocke-Wulf Fw 61,Ewald Rohlfs sets two new helicopter world records, an altitude record of 2,439 meters (8,002 feet) and an endurance record of 1 hour 20 minutes 49 seconds.
• June 26 – Flying a Focke-Wulf Fw 61, Ewald Rohlfs sets three new helicopter world records: a straight-line distance record of 16.4 kilometers (10.2 miles), a closed-circuit distance record of 80.604 kilometers (50.055 miles), and a straight-line speed record of 122.553 km/h (76.105 mph) over a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) course.
• June 27 – TheBritish Airline Pilots' Association is founded.
• June 30 – During a 2¼-hour flight in theBristol Type 138A, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant M. J. Adam sets aFédération Aéronautique Internationale-homologated world altitude record of 16,440 meters (53,937 feet).^[34] Thecockpitcanopy cracks, but he is saved by hispressure suit.

• July 3 –Amelia Earhart and navigatorFred Noonan disappear over thePacific Ocean on a flight fromLae,New Guinea, toHowland Island, and are never seen again.
• July 3–6 –Pan American World Airways and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over theAtlantic Ocean in preparation for the commencement of regular services.
• July 6 – A Spanish Republicanoffensive againstBrunete begins, supported by 300 aircraft; the Republicans will usePolikarpov I-15 fighters at night for the first time during the battle, opposing night-bombing GermanHeinkel He 111 bombers. The Nationalists redeploy German aircraft of the Condor Legion from north to central Spain to support Nationalist ground forces around Brunete.^[35]
• July 7
  • TheMarco Polo Bridge Incident begins theSecond Sino-Japanese War.^[36][37]
  • Curtiss receives the largest order placed with an airplane manufacturing company since 1918 when theUnited States Army Air Corps orders 210P-36 Hawks^[38]
• July 8 –Varney Speed Lines is renamed Continental Air Lines, which later will be changed toContinental Airlines.
• July 11
  • TheImperial Japanese Army andImperial Japanese Navy agree that if a full-scale war breaks out withChina, the army will have the responsibility for operations in northern China and the navy in central and southern China.^[39]
  • GermanMesserschmitt Bf 109 fighters appear over thebattlefield aroundBrunete, Spain, proving themselves much more effective than RepublicanPolikarpov I-15 fighters, although outnumbered by the I-15s.
• July 12–14 – Soviet aviatorsMikhail Gromov,Andrey Yumashev, andSergey Danilinestablish [ru] a new unrefueled flight distance record of 10,148 kilometers (6,302 miles), flying fromMoscow in theSoviet Union toSan Jacinto,California, in theUnited States via theNorth Pole in aTupolev ANT-25, covering the distance in 62 hours 17 minutes.^[40]
• July 18 – Supporting Nationalist forces, German fighters of the Condor Legion begin to dominate the air over theBattle of Brunete, shooting down 21 Republican aircraft during the day. The Nationalists will hold the advantage in the air over central Spain for the rest of the Spanish Civil War.^[41]
• July 21 – Arbitrating theRoyal Navy's request that control of British naval aircraft be transferred to it from theRoyal Air Force for the first time since the dissolution of theRoyal Naval Air Service in 1918,Sir Thomas Inskip recommends to the BritishCabinet that the Royal Navy have full control of its aircraft. His decision, which becomes known as the "Inskip Award," will take nearly two years to implement.^[42]
• July 25 – The Battle of Brunete ends. During the 20-day-long battle, the Republicans have lost about 100 aircraft, while the Nationalists have lost 23. The appearance of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter and Heinkel He 111 bomber and the ItalianSavoia-Marchetti SM.79 bomber in numbers during the battle signals the end of Republican air superiority in the Spanish Civil War.^[43]

• August 6
  • In response to a request by Spanish Nationalist leaderFrancisco Franco for the Italian armed forces to attack ships in theMediterranean Sea bringing aid to the Republicans, Italian aircraft based onMajorca bomb aBritish, aFrench, and an Italianmerchant ship nearAlgiers.^[44]
  • Pan American Airways receives theCollier Trophy for "establishment of the transpacific airline and the successful execution of extended overwater navigation and the regular operations thereof."^{[citation needed]}Chief Executive OfficerJuan Trippe accepts the trophy on behalf of the company fromPresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt.^{[citation needed]}
• August 7 – Italian aircraft from Majorca bomb a Greek ship in the Mediterranean Sea.^[44]
• August 12
  • Majorca-based Italian aircraft sink aDanishcargo vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.^[44]
  • Soviet 6-men crew under captaincy ofSigizmund Levanevsky in Bolkhovitinov DB-A aircraft starts itslong distance transpolar flight from Moscow toFairbanks,Alaska.
• August 13 - the radio communication with the Levanevsky's crew breaks off after the aircraft encountered adverse weather conditions and suffered failure of its end right engine; all subsequent search operations failed
• August 14
  • On the second day of theBattle of Shanghai,Nationalist Chinese aircraft attackImperial Japanese Navy ships anchored in theHuangpu River during theSecond Sino-Japanese War.^[39]
  • Vice AdmiralKiyoshi Hasegawa ordersImperial Japanese Navyaircraft carriers to begin strikes against the coast ofChina, beginning several months of such operations.^[45]
  • A Nationalistoffensive in northern Spain against Basque forces defendingSantander, begins, supported by 70 German – including the latest models, being evaluated in combat for the first time – 80 Italian, and 70 Spanish Nationalist aircraft. Republican forces opposing them have only 33 fighters – only 18 of them modern Soviet aircraft – and 11 reconnaissance planes. The Nationalist aerial bombardment will overwhelm the defenders of Santander, which will fall to the Nationalists on August 26.^[46]
• August 14–15 –Imperial Japanese NavyMitsubishi G3Mbombers based atTaihoku onFormosa andŌmura onKyūshū conduct over-ocean raids onNationalist Chinese bases 400 to 500 miles (644 to 805 km) inland, demonstrating an operational range that astonishes both foreign observers and those of theImperial Japanese Army.^[45] It is the first transoceanic bombing raid in history.^[47]
• August 15 –Deutsche Luft Hansa beginsseaplane services between theAzores andNew York with the assistance ofseaplane tenders stationed along the route.
• August 24 – The Republicans launch anoffensive against Nationalist in forces inAragon, supported by about 200 aircraft; the opposing Nationalists have only 15Heinkels. The Nationalists redeploy 20Fiat CR.32 fighters commanded by theaceJoaquín García Morato, 20Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bombers, and 20cargo aircraft from northern Spain to the area to bolster the defense.^[48]
• August 26 – Majorca-based Italian aircraft bomb a British merchant ship offBarcelona, Spain.^[44]

• TheMitsubishi A5M (Allied reporting name "Claude")fighter enters service, allowing theImperial Japanese Navy to gainair superiority in theSecond Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese soon gain control of the skies overShanghai.^[49]
• A French military leader tells the British that "a veritable forest of guns" over theMaginot Line will prevent the GermanLuftwaffe from intervening in a land war between France and Germany.^[50]
• September 1
  • Supported by 250 aircraft, Spanish Nationalist forces begin anoffensive against Republicans inAsturias. The absence of theCondor Legion, which is deployed in Aragon, is felt; Nationalist progress is slow for the first six weeks.^[51]
  • Trans-Canada Airlines – the forerunner ofAir Canada – begins flight operations. Its first flight is fromVancouver,British Columbia,Canada, toSeattle,Washington, in theUnited States.
• September 17 – At aconference atNyon,Switzerland, to address Italian attacks on merchant ships in theMediterranean Sea attended byBulgaria,Egypt,France,Germany,Greece,Romania, theSoviet Union, andTurkey, delegates agree that a British and French naval patrol in the Mediterranean west ofMalta previously authorized to sink submarines suspected of attacking merchant ships also will be authorized to attack aircraft suspected of engaging in anti-shipping strikes. The agreement is in response to Italian attacks on merchant ships by aircraft based atMajorca.^[52]
• September 19–22 –Imperial Japanese NavyMitsubishi A5M ("Claude")fighters conduct a successful campaign to eliminateChinese air resistance overNanking.^[53]

• Imperial Japanese Navybomber operations againstNanking resume, and continue through the autumn.^[54]
• The French assureGeneralJohn Vereker, the BritishChief of the General Staff, that they plan to reinforce theirantiaircraft artillery in theMaginot Line to counter Germany's superior aircraft such that Germany "would require an unrealizable supremacy of machines to get over the antiaircraft defenses."^[50]
• The FrenchFarman F.223.1Laurent Guerrero (registration F-APUZ) sets a record for aircraft in its class by flying 1,000 km (621 miles) with a 10,000-kg (22,046-pound) payload.
• October 15 – TheCondor Legion is redeployed to assist the Spanish Nationalistoffensive inAsturias, which immediately speeds up greatly. German pilots led byAdolf Galland experiment with the "carpet bombing" of Asturian positions, in which the Germans fly in close formation very low, approach the enemy positions from the rear, and release their bombs simultaneously.^[55]
• October 20 – TheSpanish Republican Navy submarineC-6 is scuttled atGijón, Spain, after suffering damage in a Nationalist air attack.^[56]
• October 21 – Nationalist aircraft sink theBasque Auxiliary NavydestroyerCiscar at Gijón.^[56]
• October 25 – Flying aFocke-Wulf Fw 61,Luftwaffetest pilotHanna Reitsch sets a new helicopter straight-line distance world record with a 108.974-kilometer (67.673 miles) in a flight inGermany fromBremen toBerlin.

• To disrupt theSoviet Union's efforts to supplyChina during theSecond Sino-Japanese War,Imperial Japanese Navybombers begin strikes onLanzhou. Navy andImperial Japanese Army bomber strikes on Lanzhou will occur for the next several years.^[57]
• November 5 – TheGerman Ministry of Aviation authorizes theHeinkel firm's P.1041 design as the winner of the "Bomber A" strategic bomber competition for theLuftwaffe, issuing the airframe type number8-177 to it. It simultaneously requires the new design to be capable of medium-angledive bombing attacks – whichReichsmarschallHermann Göring, the commander-in-chief of theLuftwaffe, would not rescind until September 1942.^[58]
• November 12 – The "Vuelo Panamericano Pro Faro A Colon" (Pan American Flight for the Columbus Lighthouse; also styled "Por el Faro de Colón"), departs from Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic a month behind schedule, bound for San Juan in three CubanStinson Reliant aircraft and one Dominican Air ForceCurtiss-Wright CW-19.^[59][60]
• November 16 – ASabenaJunkers Ju 52 en route fromCologne toLondon viaBrusselscrashes nearOstend,Belgium, killing all 11 people on board. Among the dead are theGrand Duke and eight-months pregnantGrand Duchess ofHesse and their two small sons.
• November 20 – The FrenchFarman F.223.1Laurent Guerrero (registration F-APUZ) sets out on a history-making flight fromIstres,France, toSantiago,Chile, where it arrives to great fanfare 2 days 10 hours 41 minutes later.^[61]
• November 22 – Heinkel He 119 V4, the fourth prototype of the GermanHeinkel He 119, makes a world record flight for an aircraft of its class, recording an air speed of 505 km/h (314 mph) with a payload of 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) over a distance of 1,000 km (621 mi).
• November 23 – During theGreat Purge,Soviet Air Force commander-in-chiefComandarmYakov Alksnis is arrested.^[62]

• Flying aBreda Ba.88 Lince,Breda chieftest pilotFurio Niclot sets two speed-over-distance world records, averaging 554 km/h (344.24 mph) over a 100-km (62.1-mile) distance and 524 km/h (325.6 mph) over a 1000-km (621-mile) circuit.^[15]
• Major air battles take place betweenImperial Japanese Navy andNationalist Chinese aircraft overNanchang on December 9 and December 22, during which the Japanese claim the destruction of 29 Chinese aircraft in the air and 25 on the ground.^[54]
• December 9 – During combat overNanchang, anImperial Japanese NavyMitsubishi A5M ("Claude")fighter loses a third of its right wing when it is rammed by aNationalist ChineseCurtiss Hawk, but flies 200 miles (320 km) back to base without further mishap.^[53]
• December 12 – ThePanay Incident occurs, when Imperial Japanese NavyYokosuka B4Y (Allied reporting name "Jean")bombers andNakajima A4Nfighters sink the U.S. NavygunboatUSS Panay (PR-5) and three nearbyStandard Oiltankers on theYangtze River nearNanking.
• December 15 – A Spanish Republican offensive in the area ofTeruel, Spain, begins. The ensuingBattle of Teruel will last until February 22, 1938, and involve 120 fighters, 80 bombers, and 100 other aircraft on the Republican side and 150 fighters, 100 bombers, and 110 other aircraft on the Nationalist side.^[63]
• December 29 – A Spanish Nationalist counteroffensive against Republican forces during theBattle of Teruel begins with the support of German aircraft of the Condor Legion. The Condor Legion has had to redeploy in order to support the counteroffensive, and its personnel are becoming weary of the constant changes of front required by Nationalist military operations.^[64]
• December 29 – Three out of the four aircraft flying in the Pan American Flight for the Columbus Lighthouse crash near Cali, Colombia on their way to Panama. The Pan American flight has reached San Juan PR, Caracas VE, Port of Spain TT, Paramaribo SR, Belém, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro BR, Montevideo UY, Buenos Aires AR, Santiago CL, La Paz BO, Lima PE, and Bogota CO.^[65]
• December 30 – The FrenchLatécoère 521flying boatLieutenant de Vaisseau Paris sets a world record by carrying a payload of 18,000 kg (39,682 pounds) to 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) overBiscarosse,France.

• Arado Ar 95^[66]
• Arado Ar 195^[66]
• Bellanca 14-7 Cruisair
• Bellanca 28-90
• Bellanca 28-92
• Beriev MBR-7
• Levasseur PL.107
• Mitsubishi B5M (Allied reporting name "Mabel")
• Piaggio P.50-I
• Polikarpov I-153
• Polikarpov VIT-1
• Savoia-Marchetti SM.75
• Early 1937 –Gwinn Aircar
• Summer 1937 –Arado Ar 196^[67]
• Late 1937 –Henschel Hs 127

• Nakajima B5N (Allied reporting name "Kate")^[68]
• January 13 –Fairey Fulmar
• January 15 –Beech Model 18^[69]

• February 9 –Blackburn Skua
• February 26 –Fiat G.50 Freccia^[70]
• February 28 –Mitsubishi Ki-30 (Allied reporting name "Ann")^[71]

• Kawasaki Ki-32 (Allied reporting name "Mary")^[72]
• March 3 –Luton Minor
• March 4 –Junkers EF 61
• March 10 –Hawker Henley
• March 20 –Miles M.14 Magister

• April 10 –Junkers Ju 88 V2D-AREN
• April 11 –Junkers Ju 89
• April 20 –Curtiss XP-37^[73]

• Arado Ar 196
• Focke-Wulf Fw 187
• Miles M.9 Kestrel
• May 7 –Lockheed XC-35
• May 12 –Fairchild F-46
• May 20 –de Havilland Albatross
• May 25 –Gasuden Koken

• Aichi E11A^[74]
• June 11 –Kawanishi E11K
• June 12 – Farman F.223.1 F-APUZLaurent Guerrero, prototype of theFarman F.223^[61]
• June 18 –de Havilland Don
• June 18 –Vought V-143^[75]
• June 19 –Airspeed Oxford
• June 22 –de Havilland Moth Minor

• Heinkel He 119
• July 3 –Dornier Do 24
• July 15 –Hamburger Flugzeugbau Ha 138, unsuccessful early prototype of theBlohm & Voss BV 138^[76]
• July 18 –Potez 661
• July 27
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 200 prototypeD-AERE
  • Short Mayo Flying-boat / seaplane composite
• July 29 –Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra

• Nakajima Ki-19
• August 11 –Boulton Paul Defiant prototypeK8310
• August 24 –Fairchild 45-80
• August 25 – Sukhoi ANT-51, prototype of the Sukhoi BB-1, redesignated theSukhoi Su-2 in 1942
• August 28 –Junkers Ju 90

• September 1 – BellYFM-1 Airacuda
• September 2 – Grumman XF4F-2, prototype of theF4F Wildcat^[77]
• September 4 –Miles M.13 HobbyG-AFAW
• September 13 –Junkers Ju 88 V3D-ASAZ
• September 30 –Blohm & Voss Ha 140

• ERCO 310, prototype of theERCO Europe
• October 12 –Hawker Hurricane production model withRolls-Royce Merlin G engine
• October 15 –Boeing XB-15
• October 16
  • Fokker T.V
  • Short S.25K 4774, prototype of theShort Sunderland
• October 23 –Focke-Wulf Fw 62

• Bellanca Cruisair
• December 2 – Brewster XF2A-1 (company designation B-139), prototype of theBrewster F2A Buffalo^[78]
• December 6 –Amiot 350^[79]
• December 17 –Consolidated PB2Y Coronado^[80]
• December 24 –Macchi C.200
• December 27 –Farman NC.470

• Aeronca K
• Focke-Wulf Fw 58 with the GermanLuftwaffe
• Henschel Hs 126 with the GermanLuftwaffe
• Early 1937 –Mitsubishi A5M (Allied reporting name "Claude") with theImperial Japanese Navy^[81]
• Spring 1937 –Farman F.222 with theFrench Air Force
• Late 1937 –Mitsubishi B5M (Allied reporting name "Mabel") with the Imperial Japanese Navy

• January 13 –Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow with theRoyal Air Force'sNo. 214 Squadron

• Gloster Gladiator withNo. 3 andNo. 72 Squadrons,Royal Air Force (RAF)

• Bristol Blenheim withNo. 114 Squadron, Royal Air Force
• March 4 –B-17 Flying Fortress with theUnited States Army Air Corps2nd Bombardment Group
• March 9 –Armstrong Whitworth Whitley withNo. 10 Squadron, Royal Air Force

• Vickers Wellesley
• Junkers Ju 87 with GermanLuftwaffe's I. Group,Sturzkampfgeschwader 162
• April 16 –Supermarine Stranraer

• Mitsubishi Ki-15 (Allied reporting name "Babs") withImperial Japanese Army Air Force^[82]
• May 20 –Fairey Battle withNo. 63 Squadron, Royal Air Force

• Aichi E11A (Allied reporting name "Laura")^[83]

• Nakajima Ki-19
• August 13 –Sikorsky XPBS-1^[84]

• Miles Magister
• Douglas TBD Devastator withUnited States NavyTorpedo Squadron (VT-3) aboardUSS Saratoga (CV-3)

• Airspeed Oxford
• Dornier Do 24 with theRoyal Netherlands Navy

• Hawker Hurricane withNo. 111 Squadron, Royal Air Force atNortholt as the RAF's firstmonoplanefighter^[85]
• SB2U Vindicator with U.S. NavyBombing Squadron 3 (VB-3) aboardUSS Saratoga (CV-3)

• Curtiss P-6 Hawk by theUnited States Army Air Corps^[86]
• de Havilland M′pala, last variant of theAirco DH.9 in service, by theSouth African Air Force.

• Hall PH-1 by theUnited States Navy from squadron service; last served withPatrol Squadron 8 (VP-8); some aircraft remained in service astrainers^[87]

• Ford RR-5 by theUnited States Marine Corps, lastFord Trimotor in service with the U.S. Marine Corps.^[88]