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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1906:

January

• January 17 - Zeppelin LZ2 makes a forced landing and is destroyed in high winds the following day.

March

• 18 March - Traian Vuia flies his "Vuia 1" in first powered flight without headwind or catapult assisted takeoff. Not launched from a height.

September

• September 12 - Jacob Ellehammer makes his first flight with his aeroplane "Danemark I" on the tiny island of Lindholm. The plane was attached to the ground by a rope and described a few circles.
• September 13 - Alberto Santos-Dumont successfully flies his 14-bis aircraft at Château de Bagatelle in Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France, for the first time .
• September 30 - The Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is awarded for the first time. It goes to Lt Frank Lahm of the US Army, who flies 647 km (402 miles) in the balloon United States.

October

• October 9 - Zeppelin LZ 3 flies for the 1st time.
• October 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Archdeacon prize as he flies his 14-bis aircraft at Château de Bagatelle in Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France, a distance of 60m (197ft).

November

• November 13 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies the 14-bis near Château de Bagatelle in Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France, a distance of 722 feet (220 m) in 21 seconds. This is recorded as the first (officially observed) aeroplane flight made in the World.

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