30 June 1913

According to press reports: "Douglas, Ariz., June 30 - Fears that Didier Masson, the French aviator and soldier of fortune has been killed or seriously injured, are entertained here today in the rebel camp at Guaymas, Mexico. Under fire while making a detour over the city, Masson's aeroplane was seen to lurch and descend rapidly within the federal lines. Nothing has been heard from him since." (Reports of Masson's demise were exaggerated. He died in 1950 of natural causes.)

29 June 1913

In 1913 the Avro 500 (Type E) aircraft was sent to Shoreham and there flown by experienced pilots of the Avro School, such as H. R. Simms and H. S. Powell. On June 29, 1913 pupils were allowed to fly it for the first time but in the afternoon it stalled on a turn, crashed and was destroyed by fire. Pilot R. N. Wight received fatal injuries, the first ever in an Avro aircraft.

28 June 1913

"The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . ."
— Waldemar Kaempfert, Managing Editor, 'Scientific American' 28 June 1913

27 June 1913

On or about 27 June 1913, Orville Wright was photographed standing in the Miami River (OH) between the pontoons of a Wright Model CH Flyer.

26 June 1913

AP, Douglas, Ariz., June 26 - The governor of Resquiera telegraphed from Hermosillo to the Junta here that he would leave the capitol to take an aeroplane flight with Didier Masson, a French aviator, over the federal lines at San Roas and San Leandre, Resquieras.

25 June 1913

The first plane to fly beneath the top span of Duluth’s Aerial Bridge was the “flying boat” Lark o’ the Lake, piloted by Tony Jannus. On June 25, 1913, the Lark was taking select passengers on exhibition flights. With W.D. Jones aboard, the Duluth Herald reported, “the boat sailed under the aerial bridge and along the lake shore to the curling club, being the first flying boat to pass under the bridge and the first to fly over Lake Superior.”

24 June 1913

BATH, N.Y., June 24. - Fred F. Gardiner, an aviator, was drowned in Lake Keuka yesterday afternoon when his aeroplane fell about 150 feet. Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) June 24, 1913; page 4.

23 June 1913

The Russky Vityaz (Русскій витязь) or Russian Knight, designed by Igor Sikorsky, was the world's first four-engine aircraft. Test flights between 10 and 27 May 1913 were successful. However, while parked on the runway on 23 June 1913, the aircraft was crushed by an engine that fell off a single-seat Morane aircraft during a landing. Sikorsky decided not to repair the seriously damaged Russky Vityaz and began working on his next brainchild — the Ilya Muromets.

22 June 1913

David Percival Fisher (1882-1941) was owner and builder of the Fisher Monoplane, the first successful indigenous aircraft to fly in New Zealand. The first successful sustained flights were carried out at Hurunui-o-rangi Flat, near Gladstone, Wairarapa on 21/22 June 1913. Fisher adapted the design from a drawing of the Bleriot Mk XI. Its engine was also built from scratch by Fisher, with the exception of a secondhand crankcase.

21 June 1913

Georgia Ann "Tiny" Broadwick, an accomplished balloon-parachutist, was living in Los Angeles when army pilot Glenn L. Martin asked her to test out an airplane trap seat he had designed. On June 21, 1913 Tiny became the first woman to jump from an airplane.

20 June 1913

William Devotie Billingsley, designated as Naval Aviator No. 9, was the first naval aviator killed in an airplane crash. On June 20, 1913, while piloting the Wright B-2 at 1,600 feet over water near Annapolis, Maryland, he was thrown from the plane and fell to his death. Admiral John Henry Towers, also unseated in the turbulence, was nearly killed in the same accident as he clung to the plane and fell with it into the water.

19 June 1913

19 June 1913 is recognized as the official founding date of the Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (Mexican Air Force) The FAM is the aerial warfare service branch of the Mexican Army of which it is a part.

18 June 1913

Denys Corbett Wilson, on 18 June 1913, piloted the first aircraft to land in the cliff-top fields at Highcliffe (Christchurch, Dorset). His Bleriot XI-2, powered by an 80hp, seven-cylinder Gnome engine, brought him to Highcliffe in one hop from the Hendon aerodrome near London. The Bleriot was based on the cliff top for at least a fortnight, with Corbett Wilson making other flights, including crossing to the Isle of Wight.

17 June 1913

On 17 June 1913, French pilot Maurice Prevost set an air speed record of 111.69 miles per hour while flying a Deperdussin Monocoque monoplane near Paris, France.

16 June 1913

In June 1912, T.O.M. Sopwith with Fred Sigrist and others set up The Sopwith Aviation Company and began manufacturing the Sopwith Tabloid biplane. Piloted by Harry Hawker this plane won the British altitude record of 13,000 ft (4000 m) on 16 June 1913.

15 June 1913

The Lockheed Company, one of the giants in the modern aerospace industry, began in 1912 when the Loughead brothers, Allan and Malcolm, formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in San Francisco. Their first aircraft, the Model G seaplane, debuted on June 15, 1913. It was the largest seaplane yet built in the United States. Though the brothers couldn't find a customer for their plane, they earned some income for the startup company by flying passengers in their plane.

14 June 1913

Eric Pashley returned to Bognor on Saturday, June 14, 1913, landing in the same spot, where, according to the Observer, ‘thousands flocked to see the aviator’. This time a number of locals were taken up for short ‘joy’ flights, including Mrs Elizabeth Taylor, the wife of the hotelier. It wasn’t a cheap experience. Two guineas per head, in fact, which worked out at about £1 per mile.

13 June 1913

Lt. Patrick N.L. Bellinger set a seaplane altitude record of 6,200 feet, June 13, 1913, in a Curtiss Hydroaeroplane.