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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AT 100
–ATIMELINE HISTORY
June 1938
Supermarine Spitfire I enters service
with No 19 Squadron RAF
1920
Geoffrey de Havilland set up the
De Havilland Aircraft Company
4 August 1914
Outbreak of the
‘Great War’
1 April 1918
Formation of the
Royal Air Force
11 November 1918
Armistice on the
Western Front
16 October 1908
First military flight by a
heavier-than-air machine
in Britain by Samuel Cody
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
7 December 1903
First powered flight by the
Wright brothers at Kittyhawk
28 February 1911
Formation of the Air Battalion
of the Royal Engineers
13 April 1912
The Royal Flying Corps formed
by Royal Warrant