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**Spanish Nationalist leader [[Francisco Franco]] orders his [[Spanish Air Force#Air warfare in the Spanish Civil War|National Aviation (Aviación Nacional)]] force to begin a bombing campaign against the [[Basque people|Basques]] in northern Spain.<ref>Thomas, Hugh, ''The Spanish Civil War'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-671-75876-9}}, p. 612.</ref>
**Spanish Nationalist leader [[Francisco Franco]] orders his [[Spanish Air Force#Air warfare in the Spanish Civil War|National Aviation (Aviación Nacional)]] force to begin a bombing campaign against the [[Basque people|Basques]] in northern Spain.<ref>Thomas, Hugh, ''The Spanish Civil War'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-671-75876-9}}, p. 612.</ref>
**The 71-year-old [[English people|English]] [[aviator]] and [[ornithologist]] [[Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford]], dies in the crash of her [[de Havilland DH.60 Moth|de Havilland DH.60GIII Moth Major]] into the [[North Sea]] off [[Great Yarmouth]], [[England]]. Her body is never recovered.
**The 71-year-old [[English people|English]] [[aviator]] and [[ornithologist]] [[Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford]], dies in the crash of her [[de Havilland DH.60 Moth|de Havilland DH.60GIII Moth Major]] into the [[North Sea]] off [[Great Yarmouth]], [[England]]. Her body is never recovered.
* March 25 &ndash; The [[Transcontinental and Western Air]] [[Douglas DC-2]] ''NC13730'' crashes nose first into a gully near [[Clifton, Pennsylvania|Clifton]], [[Pennsylvania]], due to [[atmospheric icing]] during a flight from [[Camden Central Airport]] in [[Camden County, New Jersey|Camden County]], [[New Jersey]], to [[Allegheny County Airport]] outside [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, killing all 13 people on board.<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19370325-0 Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description]</ref> Doris Hammons, the first TWA [[flight attendant]] &ndash; known at the time as an "air hostess" &ndash; killed in an airplane crash, is among the dead.<ref name="twatimeline">[http://twaflightattendants.com/liftoffhtml/historytimeline.html TWA History Timeline]</ref>
* March 25 &ndash; The [[Transcontinental and Western Air]] [[Douglas DC-2]] ''NC13730'' crashes nose first into a gully near [[Clifton, Pennsylvania|Clifton]], [[Pennsylvania]], due to [[atmospheric icing]] during a flight from [[Camden Central Airport]] in [[Camden County, New Jersey|Camden County]], [[New Jersey]], to [[Allegheny County Airport]] outside [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, killing all 13 people on board.<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19370325-0 Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description]</ref> Doris Hammons, the first TWA [[flight attendant]] &ndash; known at the time as an "air hostess" &ndash; killed in an airplane crash, is among the dead.<ref name="twatimeline">[http://twaflightattendants.com/liftoffhtml/historytimeline.html TWA History Timeline] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410102544/http://twaflightattendants.com/liftoffhtml/historytimeline.html |date=2015-04-10 }}</ref>
* March 28 &ndash; Taking off in thick fog from [[Archerfield, Queensland|Archerfield]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], for an early-morning mail and newspaper flight, the [[Airlines of Australia (airline)|Airlines of Australia]] [[Stinson Model A]] ''Lismore'' (registration VH-UGG) crashes into trees, lands inverted, and explodes, killing its two-man crew.<ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=28517 Aviation Safety Network ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28517]</ref>
* March 28 &ndash; Taking off in thick fog from [[Archerfield, Queensland|Archerfield]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], for an early-morning mail and newspaper flight, the [[Airlines of Australia (airline)|Airlines of Australia]] [[Stinson Model A]] ''Lismore'' (registration VH-UGG) crashes into trees, lands inverted, and explodes, killing its two-man crew.<ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=28517 Aviation Safety Network ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28517]</ref>
* March 31 &ndash; A Spanish Nationalist ground offensive begins against the Basques, supported by 80 German aircraft based at [[Vitoria-Gasteiz]] and 70 Spanish Nationalist and Italian aircraft based elsewhere in northern Spain. Opposing them are 20 to 30 Basque aircraft. On the first day, German [[Junkers Ju 52]]s conduct the first [[terror bombing]] and [[strafing]] of an undefended town in [[Europe]], killing 248 people in [[Durango, Biscay|Durango]].<ref>Thomas, Hugh, ''The Spanish Civil War'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-671-75876-9}}, pp. 614, 616-617.</ref>
* March 31 &ndash; A Spanish Nationalist ground offensive begins against the Basques, supported by 80 German aircraft based at [[Vitoria-Gasteiz]] and 70 Spanish Nationalist and Italian aircraft based elsewhere in northern Spain. Opposing them are 20 to 30 Basque aircraft. On the first day, German [[Junkers Ju 52]]s conduct the first [[terror bombing]] and [[strafing]] of an undefended town in [[Europe]], killing 248 people in [[Durango, Biscay|Durango]].<ref>Thomas, Hugh, ''The Spanish Civil War'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-671-75876-9}}, pp. 614, 616-617.</ref>

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937:

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