This is a list of aviation-related events from 1904:
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Events
April
- April 1 - Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie.
- April 3 - Gabriel Voisin successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest flight on this day was 25 seconds.
May
- May 23 - First flight attempt, unsuccessful, of the Wright Flyer II.
June
- The British Army tests Samuel Cody's person-carrying kites at Aldershot.
August
- August 3 - Major Thomas Scott Baldwin demonstrates the first successful U.S. Airship, "California Arrow", at Oakland, California
September
- September 20 - Wilbur Wright makes the first circuit flight, in the Flyer II.
November
- November 9 - Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles near Dayton, Ohio, the first flight of longer than five minutes.
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