This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
On November 4, 1909, as a joke to prove that pigs could fly, John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
The Zeppelin LZ 3, a few seconds before landing.
The then Prince Albert of Belgium congratulates baron Pierre de Caters at the Antwerp Aviation Week (23 October- 2 November)
Lieutenant Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara,, HonFRPS was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician. He was the first Englishman to pilot a heavi
1909 in aviation
…April – French aviator Georges Legagneux flies over Vienna in a Voisin Farman I biplane. It is the first fixed-wing aircraft flight in Austria. 2 May – John Moore-Brabazon the first resident British citizen to make a recognised powered heavier-than-air flight in the United Kingdom, flying from The Aero Club's ground at…
On November 4, 1909, as a joke to prove that pigs could fly, John Moore-Brabazon put a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing strut of his Voisin aeroplane.