{{refimprove|date=November 2008}} {{Infobox U.S. legislation | shorttitle = Aviation Service Act | othershorttitles = | longtitle = An Act to increase the efficiency of the aviation service of the Army, and for other purposes. | colloquialacronym = | nickname = Aviation Service Act of 1914 | enacted by = 63rd | effective date = July 18, 1914 | public law url = | cite public law = {{USPL|63|143}} | cite statutes at large = {{usstat|38|514}} | acts amended = | acts repealed = | title amended = <!--US code titles changed--> | sections created = <!--{{USC}} can be used--> | sections amended = | leghisturl = | introducedin = House | introducedbill = {{USBill|63|H.R.|5304}} | introducedby = <!--sponsor(s)--> | introduceddate = | committees = | passedbody1 = | passeddate1 = | passedvote1 = | passedbody2 = | passedas2 = <!-- used if the second body changes the name of the legislation --> | passeddate2 = | passedvote2 = | conferencedate = | passedbody3 = | passeddate3 = | passedvote3 = | agreedbody3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreeddate3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreedvote3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreedbody4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | agreeddate4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | agreedvote4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | passedbody4 = | passeddate4 = | passedvote4 = | signedpresident = Woodrow Wilson | signeddate = July 18, 1914 | unsignedpresident = <!-- used when passed without presidential signing --> | unsigneddate = <!-- used when passed without presidential signing --> | vetoedpresident = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | vetoeddate = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddenbody1 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddendate1 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddenvote1 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddenbody2 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddendate2 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | overriddenvote2 = <!-- used when passed by overriding presidential veto --> | amendments = | SCOTUS cases = }} The '''Aviation Service Act''' is a U.S. law passed in 1914. It created within the Signal Corps an Aviation Section to replace the Aeronautical Division. It directed the Aviation Section to operate and supervise "''all military [U.S. Army] aircraft, including balloons and aeroplanes, all appliances pertaining to said craft, and signaling apparatus of any kind when installed on said craft.''"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.af.mil/history/overview.asp |title=Air Force Link - History |accessdate=2008-12-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205232831/http://www.af.mil/history/overview.asp |archivedate=2008-12-05 }}</ref> The section would also train "''officers and enlisted men in matters pertaining to military aviation''," and thus embraced all facets of the Army's air organization and operation. The old Aeronautical Division continued to exist, albeit as the Washington office of the new section.
==See also== :1914 in aviation :Aviation Act of 1917
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Category:63rd United States Congress Category:Aviation in the United States Category:Aviation law