This is a list of aviation-related events from 1918:
Events
The Imperial Japanese Navy establishes its first lighter-than-air aviation unit. The naval aviation branch of the Chilean Armys air corps receives its first aircraft. The Eberhart Steel Products Company is founded in Buffalo, New York. It specializes in manufacturing airplane parts and aeronautical equipment and will begin to produce airplanes in 1920. Kawasaki Heavy Industries Company Ltd. organizes an aircraft division. Spring 1918 – Three Imperial Japanese Navy Farman-type seaplanes fly nonstop from Yokosuka to Sakai, Japan, stretching the navys aviation distance capabilities. The cities are apart. The French Armys Service Aeronautique employs four Breguet 14S air ambulances for casualty evacuation along the Aisne Front. Each aircraft can accommodate two stretcher cases.