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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1907:

Events

  • Work begins on the Gnome rotary engine.
  • 5 April – Louis Blériot makes a short flight in his Blériot V monoplane.
  • 6 April – Horatio Phillips achieves the first, limited, powered heavier-than-air flight in the United Kingdom when his multiplane makes a hop.
  • July - The first aerodrome with hangars opens at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
  • September - The Zeppelin LZ 3 sets a record by remaining aloft for eight hours.
  • 29 September – Louis Breguet and Charles Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground. The craft does not fly freely; it is controlled by handlers with poles standing around it on the ground.
  • 30 September – Flying a Voisin-Farman I biplane at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Henri Farman begins a progressively longer series of flights.
  • 1 October – The Imperial German Army purchases its first dirigible from Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
  • 5 October – British Army Dirigible No 1, Nulli Secundus, the United Kingdom's first powered airship, makes her first long-distance flight, flying 50 miles (80&nbsp;km) from the School of Ballooning, Farnborough, Hampshire, to London in 3 hours 25&nbsp;minutes, circling the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral after arriving over London. Unable to make a planned return to Farnborough due to unfavorable winds, she is moored at the Crystal Palace.
  • 10 October – Nulli Secundus is buffeted by high winds while moored at the Crystal Palace in London. Damaged during deflation, she will be partially dismantled and rebuilt as Nulli Secundus II.
  • Glenn Curtiss founds the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, the first airplane manufacturing company in the United States.

First flights

January–June

  • 30 March – Voisin 1907 biplane, this first example is also known as the Delagrange No.1 after its owner, Léon Delagrange.
  • 5 April – Bleriot V

July–November

  • 11 July – Blériot VI Libellule.
  • 10 September – Nulli Secundus, the British Army's first airship.
  • 10 November – Blériot VII.

December

  • 6 December – First manned flight of the AEA Cygnet tethered glider (also referred to as a kite) designed by Alexander Graham Bell. The flight is also the first flight for Thomas Selfridge, later killed in the crash of a powered aircraft.
  • 17 December – Santos-Dumont Demoiselle (No 19).

Births

  • 30 May – Elly Beinhorn, German aviator (d. 2007)

References