Veranzio's Parachute (c.1595)
Francesco de Lana's Airship (1670)
Besnier's Wings (1678)
De Gusmao's Passarola (1709)
Bacqueville's Wings (1742)
Bauer's Flying Machine (1764)
Meerwein's Glider-ornithopter (1781)
Blanchard's Airship (1781)星期六, 四月 18, 2009
Attempts at Flight 1595-1781
Veranzio's Parachute (c.1595) Francesco de Lana's Airship (1670)Besnier's Wings (1678)De Gusmao's Passarola (1709)Bacqueville's Wings (1742)Bauer's Flying Machine (1764)Meerwein's Glider-ornithopter (1781) Blanchard's Airship (1781)
2009 in aviation
January
6 January - Ted (airline) ceased operations and flights were given back to United Airlines.
15 January – US Airways Flight 1549, an A320, hits a flight of geese while taking off from La Guardia, NYC. The plane is safely landed in the Hudson River. All 151 aboard survive.
February
12 February - Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence, NY on its way to land in Buffalo. All 49 aboard are killed, along with one person on the ground.
25 February - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737, crashes on approach to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, nine of the 135 onboard are killed.
March
22 March - a Pilatus PC-12 crashes in Montana, United States, 14 died.
22 March- a FedEx Express MD-11 crashes at Narita International Airport. Both pilots on board were killed.
6 January - Ted (airline) ceased operations and flights were given back to United Airlines.
15 January – US Airways Flight 1549, an A320, hits a flight of geese while taking off from La Guardia, NYC. The plane is safely landed in the Hudson River. All 151 aboard survive.
February
12 February - Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence, NY on its way to land in Buffalo. All 49 aboard are killed, along with one person on the ground.
25 February - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737, crashes on approach to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, nine of the 135 onboard are killed.
March
22 March - a Pilatus PC-12 crashes in Montana, United States, 14 died.
22 March- a FedEx Express MD-11 crashes at Narita International Airport. Both pilots on board were killed.
2008 in aviation
January
2 January – Asian Spirit Flight 321, an NAMC YS-11, overruns the runway while landing in Masbate City, Philippines. All 47 on board survive.
4 January – A Transaven Let L-410 Turbolet crashes near the Los Roques archipelago off Venezuela killing all 14 on board.
10 January – Air Canada Flight 190, an Airbus A319 experiences severe turbulence over the Canadian Rocky Mountains, injuring ten (six seriously) of the 88 on board, and is forced to divert and make an emergency landing at Calgary International Airport.
11 January - Airbus delivers its second A380 (MSN005) to Singapore Airlines.
12 January - A Macedonian Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in thick fog southeast of Skopje, killing all 11 military personnel on board.
17 January – British Airways Flight 38 a Boeing 777 lands short of the runway at London in the United Kingdom. Nine of the 152 people on board are treated for minor injuries, but there are no fatalities.
23 January - A Polish Air Force EADS CASA C-295M crashes near Mirosławiec, killing 20 Polish Air Force officers aboard, including Brigadier General Andrzej Andrzejewski.
February
1 February - Mauricio Delfabro wins the 1st FAI South American Gliding Championships and 55th National Gliding Championships of Argentina in Adolfo Gonzales Chaves in the mixed Open, 18m, 15m and Standard Class, Carlos Adrover became South American Club Class Champion
3 February - Silver State Helicopters ceases operations and enters bankruptcy. At the time of closing Silver State operated 194 helicopters from its 34 flight schools.
6 February - First flight of the New Zealand design Falcomposite Furio carbon-fibre kit aircraft
8 February – Eagle Airways Flight 2279, a BAe Jetstream 32 is hijacked ten minutes after taking off from Blenheim, New Zealand by a passenger who attacked both pilots. The hijacker is eventually restrained by the co-pilot and the flight lands safely at Christchurch. All nine on board survive the incident.
14 February – Belavia Flight 1834, a Bombardier CRJ200, hits its left wing on the runway while taking off from Yerevan, Armenia. All 21 on board escape the aircraft before it erupts into flames.
21 February – Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518, an ATR 42-300, crashes shortly after taking off from Mérida, Venezuela killing all 46 on board.
23 February - A B-2 Spirit crashed shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Both pilots ejected from the plane before it crashed.
28 February - Boston-Maine Airways, operating as Pan Am Clipper Connection, ceased operations.
March
31 March - Aloha Airlines ceased operations because due to declaring bankruptcy and gave all flights to Aloha Air Cargo.
April
3 April - An Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes near Benzdorp in Suriname. All nineteen on board are killed.
3 April - ATA Airlines ceased all operations due to unrecovering bankruptcy.
5 April - Skybus Airlines ceased operations due to poor economy and rising fuel prices.
8 April - An Antonov An-26 operated by 918 Air Transport Regiment crashes near Hanoi in Northern Vietnam. All five military pilots on board are killed.
15 April - A Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 commercial airplane crashes into a residential area of Goma, DR Congo.
27 April - Eos Airlines ceased all operations due to the airline filing bankruptcy.
May
15 May - Aloha Air Cargo commenced operations as an independent airline after Aloha Airlines ceased operations.
21 May - Serbian Air Force J-22 Orao (serial number 25114) attack aircraft from 241.fighter-bomber aviation squadron of 98th Air Base crashed near the village of Baranda. The pilot major Tomas Janik ejected from the plane before it crashed.
30 May - TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320-233, crashed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with 5 casualites (two on the ground) and 65 injuries.
30 May - British all-business class airline Silverjet ceases operations. It was the last business class airline in service.
31 May - Champion Air ceased operations because of high fuel prices and fuel inefficiecy, the main two reasons the airline was terminated.
June
2 June - Aeromexico Travel, operated by Aeromexico, commenced operations.
10 June - Fire engulfs Sudan Airways Flight 109 after landing in Khartoum, killing 44.
August
20 August - Spanair Flight 5022, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes shortly after takeoff from Madrid Barajas Airport. Of 172 on board, just 18 survive. It is the world's worst aviation accident in 2008 and Spain's worst in 25 years.
24 August - An aircraft crashes in Guatemala, killing 10, including 4 Americans on a humanitarian mission.
24 August - Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes upon takeoff near Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, killing 68.
28 August - Zoom Airlines ceases operations due to financial struggles.
September
2 September - ExpressJet Airlines ended operations as an independent carrier.
12 September - British charter airline XL Airways UK, a subsidiary of the XL Leisure Group, ceases operations with immediate effect, due to a deteriorating financial position. 90,000 Britons holidaying abroad are left stranded. It had been the 3rd largest package holiday group in the UK. XL Airways France and Germany are sold and continue operations.
14 September - Aeroflot Flight 821, operated by Aeroflot Nord, crashed on approach to Perm Airport, killing all 82 passengers and 6 crew. Following the accident and concerns about safety procedures, Aeroflot chief executive Valery Okulov announced it would be stripping Aeroflot-Nord of the right to use the brand name Aeroflot and would be severing all ties between the companies.
26 September - Yves Rossy, Swiss airline pilot and former fighter pilot, crosses the English Channel with his homemade jet-powered wing strapped on his back.
October
8 October - Yeti Airlines Flight 103 crashes in the Everest region of Nepal killing 18 passengers.
First flights
May
19 May – Sukhoi Superjet 100's maiden flight.
December
18 December - Schweizer 434
2 January – Asian Spirit Flight 321, an NAMC YS-11, overruns the runway while landing in Masbate City, Philippines. All 47 on board survive.
4 January – A Transaven Let L-410 Turbolet crashes near the Los Roques archipelago off Venezuela killing all 14 on board.
10 January – Air Canada Flight 190, an Airbus A319 experiences severe turbulence over the Canadian Rocky Mountains, injuring ten (six seriously) of the 88 on board, and is forced to divert and make an emergency landing at Calgary International Airport.
11 January - Airbus delivers its second A380 (MSN005) to Singapore Airlines.
12 January - A Macedonian Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in thick fog southeast of Skopje, killing all 11 military personnel on board.
17 January – British Airways Flight 38 a Boeing 777 lands short of the runway at London in the United Kingdom. Nine of the 152 people on board are treated for minor injuries, but there are no fatalities.
23 January - A Polish Air Force EADS CASA C-295M crashes near Mirosławiec, killing 20 Polish Air Force officers aboard, including Brigadier General Andrzej Andrzejewski.
February
1 February - Mauricio Delfabro wins the 1st FAI South American Gliding Championships and 55th National Gliding Championships of Argentina in Adolfo Gonzales Chaves in the mixed Open, 18m, 15m and Standard Class, Carlos Adrover became South American Club Class Champion
3 February - Silver State Helicopters ceases operations and enters bankruptcy. At the time of closing Silver State operated 194 helicopters from its 34 flight schools.
6 February - First flight of the New Zealand design Falcomposite Furio carbon-fibre kit aircraft
8 February – Eagle Airways Flight 2279, a BAe Jetstream 32 is hijacked ten minutes after taking off from Blenheim, New Zealand by a passenger who attacked both pilots. The hijacker is eventually restrained by the co-pilot and the flight lands safely at Christchurch. All nine on board survive the incident.
14 February – Belavia Flight 1834, a Bombardier CRJ200, hits its left wing on the runway while taking off from Yerevan, Armenia. All 21 on board escape the aircraft before it erupts into flames.
21 February – Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518, an ATR 42-300, crashes shortly after taking off from Mérida, Venezuela killing all 46 on board.
23 February - A B-2 Spirit crashed shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Both pilots ejected from the plane before it crashed.
28 February - Boston-Maine Airways, operating as Pan Am Clipper Connection, ceased operations.
March
31 March - Aloha Airlines ceased operations because due to declaring bankruptcy and gave all flights to Aloha Air Cargo.
April
3 April - An Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes near Benzdorp in Suriname. All nineteen on board are killed.
3 April - ATA Airlines ceased all operations due to unrecovering bankruptcy.
5 April - Skybus Airlines ceased operations due to poor economy and rising fuel prices.
8 April - An Antonov An-26 operated by 918 Air Transport Regiment crashes near Hanoi in Northern Vietnam. All five military pilots on board are killed.
15 April - A Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 commercial airplane crashes into a residential area of Goma, DR Congo.
27 April - Eos Airlines ceased all operations due to the airline filing bankruptcy.
May
15 May - Aloha Air Cargo commenced operations as an independent airline after Aloha Airlines ceased operations.
21 May - Serbian Air Force J-22 Orao (serial number 25114) attack aircraft from 241.fighter-bomber aviation squadron of 98th Air Base crashed near the village of Baranda. The pilot major Tomas Janik ejected from the plane before it crashed.
30 May - TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320-233, crashed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with 5 casualites (two on the ground) and 65 injuries.
30 May - British all-business class airline Silverjet ceases operations. It was the last business class airline in service.
31 May - Champion Air ceased operations because of high fuel prices and fuel inefficiecy, the main two reasons the airline was terminated.
June
2 June - Aeromexico Travel, operated by Aeromexico, commenced operations.
10 June - Fire engulfs Sudan Airways Flight 109 after landing in Khartoum, killing 44.
August
20 August - Spanair Flight 5022, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes shortly after takeoff from Madrid Barajas Airport. Of 172 on board, just 18 survive. It is the world's worst aviation accident in 2008 and Spain's worst in 25 years.
24 August - An aircraft crashes in Guatemala, killing 10, including 4 Americans on a humanitarian mission.
24 August - Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes upon takeoff near Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, killing 68.
28 August - Zoom Airlines ceases operations due to financial struggles.
September
2 September - ExpressJet Airlines ended operations as an independent carrier.
12 September - British charter airline XL Airways UK, a subsidiary of the XL Leisure Group, ceases operations with immediate effect, due to a deteriorating financial position. 90,000 Britons holidaying abroad are left stranded. It had been the 3rd largest package holiday group in the UK. XL Airways France and Germany are sold and continue operations.
14 September - Aeroflot Flight 821, operated by Aeroflot Nord, crashed on approach to Perm Airport, killing all 82 passengers and 6 crew. Following the accident and concerns about safety procedures, Aeroflot chief executive Valery Okulov announced it would be stripping Aeroflot-Nord of the right to use the brand name Aeroflot and would be severing all ties between the companies.
26 September - Yves Rossy, Swiss airline pilot and former fighter pilot, crosses the English Channel with his homemade jet-powered wing strapped on his back.
October
8 October - Yeti Airlines Flight 103 crashes in the Everest region of Nepal killing 18 passengers.
First flights
May
19 May – Sukhoi Superjet 100's maiden flight.
December
18 December - Schweizer 434
2007 in aviation
January
January 1 – Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737, disappears in Indonesian airspace with 102 people on board.
January 6 - BA Connect, easyJet, XL Airways UK, Thomsonfly, Thomas Cook Airlines, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, First Choice Airways, Air Malta, KLM Cityhopper and SN Brussels Airlines cancel all their flights to and from Bristol International Airport in a row over runway safety.
January 9 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
March
12 March - The first two Joint Fighter-17 aircraft were delivered to the Pakistan Air Force.
19 March - Airbus A380 makes first flights to the United States, with one touching down in New York at John F. Kennedy International Airport and another in California at Los Angeles International Airport.
23 March - TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crashes in Mogadishu, Somalia; the plane is thought to have been shot down and all 11 people on board are believed to have been killed.
27 March - The last Airbus A300 leaves the Airbus assembly line.
April
17 April - go! (airline) began operations.
May
3 May - A Chicago businessman who owned a ranch near Twin Bridges and his passenger were killed Thursday morning when the small jet they were flying crashed while trying to land at the Beaverhead County Airport at Dillon. On May 3, 2007, about 1040 mountain daylight time (MDT), a Cessna Citation S550, N22HP, collided with terrain during a circling instrument approach at Dillon, Montana.
5 May - A Kenya Airways passenger plane bound for Nairobi with 114 people on board crashed in southern Cameroon on Saturday shortly after takeoff, the central African country's state radio said. Three jetliners sat ready for takeoff at Douala International Airport, their crews waiting for a massive thunderstorm to move away.
6 May - A French plane pertaining to the force of multinational peace monitoring the border of Sinai between Egypt and Israel was crushed Sunday in the desert, resulting in the deaths of nine persons, including eight French soldiers, according to this force of peace.
17 May - Three people, the two pilots and a passenger, were killed Thursday in the accident of a small plane of freight, which was crushed little after its takeoff of Walikale, in the East of the democratic Republic of Congo, one learned near the company. A plane bound for Goma was crushed this Thursday morning in Kilambo, in territory of Walikale, with approximately 300 kilometers in the west of the chief town of North-Kivu.
30 May - One of the last 2 remaining ATL-98 Carvair [N898AT] crashed at Nixon Fork Mine near McGrath, Alaska.
Final assembly of the first Boeing 787 starts.
June
1 June - A Tanzania People's Defence Forces passenger plane (reg JW9036) developed dual engine failure as the pilot manoeuvred to land at Dodoma airport, the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel S.M. Mayenga, said, and crash landed in the Kizota area of Dodoma. All thirteen people aboard survived.
4 June - Authorities are searching for two pilots and four doctors from an organ transplant team whose plane went down Monday afternoon in Lake Michigan shortly after the pilot signaled an emergency.
21 June - Near Kamina en route to Lubumbashi DRC an overloaded Let 410UVP operated by the supposedly defunct Karibu Airways crashes inverted into a swamp shortly after takeoff, killing Mbuyu Mibanga, a member of the DRC parliament. 24 others survive.
25 June - Search-and-rescue teams combed the jungles of southern Cambodia after a passenger plane with 22 people on board crashed Monday while flying between two popular tourist destinations, officials said.
27 June - The pilot of a twin engine, nine-seat Golden Wings Charter aircraft walked away from a low impact crash at the Airport Industrial Park Wednesday, according to authorities whose emergency systems sprang into high gear once the alert was received.
28 June - A 737 Boeing aircraft with the number plate TBP-D2, of the Angolan Airlines that was flying the Luanda/M`banza, Congo/Negage/Luanda route, crashed Thursday in M’banza Congo city (northern Zaire province), killing six and injuring a number still to be established, ANGOP learned.
29 June - The plane of the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast Guillaume Soro was attacked by unknown Friday morning with the airport of Bouaké (center), an act insulated which made at least four died, but saved Mr. Soro, and thrown a cold on the process of reconciliation in progress in the country. Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro survived a rocket attack on his plane after it landed at an airport in the central town of Bouake, said spokesman Issa Doumbia. Guillaume Soro and her collaborators who precipitate in the vehicles chartered to convoy them dare-dare with the secretariat of the new Forces.
30 June
A pilot attempting to return to the air after his small plane ran out of room on a wet runway slammed into a house in Arkansas Saturday, killing himself and a woman inside the home.
A small plane SABRE Lithium matriculation XASMR of ten seats, originating of Monterrey Nuevo Leo'n, piloted by its proprietor Daniel Reedbeds Insipid, confused to a flank of the airport Plan of Guadalupe.
July
5 July
Unofficial reports indicate that at least nine people died as a result of a plane crash next to the airport of Culiacán in Mexico.
Two people have been killed and seven others injured following a plane crash in Indreabhán in Connemara, Galway.
8 July - Boeing 787 Rollout (7/8/2007) in Everett, Washington's Boeing Everett Factory.
17 July - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil.
18 July - An Antonov An-24 of Malift Air shortly after taking off from Bandundu, DRC had an engine failure, lost altitude and crashed 8 km from Bandundu. Of the 2 crew and 8 passengers, all survived.
August
8 August - Virgin America began operations.
19 August - A China Airlines flight between Taipei and Okinawa sets on fire shortly after landing. There are no fatalities
26 August - In Kongolo, DRC 13 of 15 aboard die when an overloaded Antonov An-32 (reg 9Q-CAC) owned by Agefreco Air and operated by Great Lakes Business Company crashes while flying tin ore (Cassiterite)
September
1 September - two aerobatics aircraft collided during Radom Air Show, two pilots died in a crash.
16 September - a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 [HS-OMG] from the low-cost company One-Two-Go Airlines (Thailand) carrying 123 passengers and 7 crew crash landed at Phuket and caught fire. 89 people died.
24 September - a Let L-410 (reg 9Q-CVL) owned by Free Airlines crashes on landing at Malemba-Nkulu, DRC from Lubumbashi
October
4 October - An Antonov An-26 [9Q-COS] from Africa One / El Sam Airlift and charted by Malift Air crashed shortly after taking off from the Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, Congo. The airplane bound for Tshikapam crashed on the outskirt of Kinshasa killing 21 on board (1 crew survived) and at least 28 on the ground. This accident forced the Congolese minister of transportation to resign.
15 October - Airbus delivers its first A380 superjumbo jet to Singapore Airlines.
November
China Southern Airlines officially joined the SkyTeam alliance on November 15. Because of this, SkyTeam is the 1st airline alliance with a mainland china carrier. It is also a major push into the global network for mainland China.
December
ACAC ARJ21 Advanced Regional Jet is launched.
(planned) Air China and Shanghai Airlines are expected to join the Star Alliance on December 12th. This will give an extra push into the global network for mainland China.
First flights
January
23 January - Lockheed CATBird
July
26 July - Embraer Phenom 100 Executive Jet (in São José dos Campos,Brazil)
October
26 October - Embraer Lineage 1000
Enter Into Service (EIS)
October
25 October - The Airbus A380 with Singapore Airlines completed its first commercial flight between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
January 1 – Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737, disappears in Indonesian airspace with 102 people on board.
January 6 - BA Connect, easyJet, XL Airways UK, Thomsonfly, Thomas Cook Airlines, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, First Choice Airways, Air Malta, KLM Cityhopper and SN Brussels Airlines cancel all their flights to and from Bristol International Airport in a row over runway safety.
January 9 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
March
12 March - The first two Joint Fighter-17 aircraft were delivered to the Pakistan Air Force.
19 March - Airbus A380 makes first flights to the United States, with one touching down in New York at John F. Kennedy International Airport and another in California at Los Angeles International Airport.
23 March - TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crashes in Mogadishu, Somalia; the plane is thought to have been shot down and all 11 people on board are believed to have been killed.
27 March - The last Airbus A300 leaves the Airbus assembly line.
April
17 April - go! (airline) began operations.
May
3 May - A Chicago businessman who owned a ranch near Twin Bridges and his passenger were killed Thursday morning when the small jet they were flying crashed while trying to land at the Beaverhead County Airport at Dillon. On May 3, 2007, about 1040 mountain daylight time (MDT), a Cessna Citation S550, N22HP, collided with terrain during a circling instrument approach at Dillon, Montana.
5 May - A Kenya Airways passenger plane bound for Nairobi with 114 people on board crashed in southern Cameroon on Saturday shortly after takeoff, the central African country's state radio said. Three jetliners sat ready for takeoff at Douala International Airport, their crews waiting for a massive thunderstorm to move away.
6 May - A French plane pertaining to the force of multinational peace monitoring the border of Sinai between Egypt and Israel was crushed Sunday in the desert, resulting in the deaths of nine persons, including eight French soldiers, according to this force of peace.
17 May - Three people, the two pilots and a passenger, were killed Thursday in the accident of a small plane of freight, which was crushed little after its takeoff of Walikale, in the East of the democratic Republic of Congo, one learned near the company. A plane bound for Goma was crushed this Thursday morning in Kilambo, in territory of Walikale, with approximately 300 kilometers in the west of the chief town of North-Kivu.
30 May - One of the last 2 remaining ATL-98 Carvair [N898AT] crashed at Nixon Fork Mine near McGrath, Alaska.
Final assembly of the first Boeing 787 starts.
June
1 June - A Tanzania People's Defence Forces passenger plane (reg JW9036) developed dual engine failure as the pilot manoeuvred to land at Dodoma airport, the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel S.M. Mayenga, said, and crash landed in the Kizota area of Dodoma. All thirteen people aboard survived.
4 June - Authorities are searching for two pilots and four doctors from an organ transplant team whose plane went down Monday afternoon in Lake Michigan shortly after the pilot signaled an emergency.
21 June - Near Kamina en route to Lubumbashi DRC an overloaded Let 410UVP operated by the supposedly defunct Karibu Airways crashes inverted into a swamp shortly after takeoff, killing Mbuyu Mibanga, a member of the DRC parliament. 24 others survive.
25 June - Search-and-rescue teams combed the jungles of southern Cambodia after a passenger plane with 22 people on board crashed Monday while flying between two popular tourist destinations, officials said.
27 June - The pilot of a twin engine, nine-seat Golden Wings Charter aircraft walked away from a low impact crash at the Airport Industrial Park Wednesday, according to authorities whose emergency systems sprang into high gear once the alert was received.
28 June - A 737 Boeing aircraft with the number plate TBP-D2, of the Angolan Airlines that was flying the Luanda/M`banza, Congo/Negage/Luanda route, crashed Thursday in M’banza Congo city (northern Zaire province), killing six and injuring a number still to be established, ANGOP learned.
29 June - The plane of the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast Guillaume Soro was attacked by unknown Friday morning with the airport of Bouaké (center), an act insulated which made at least four died, but saved Mr. Soro, and thrown a cold on the process of reconciliation in progress in the country. Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro survived a rocket attack on his plane after it landed at an airport in the central town of Bouake, said spokesman Issa Doumbia. Guillaume Soro and her collaborators who precipitate in the vehicles chartered to convoy them dare-dare with the secretariat of the new Forces.
30 June
A pilot attempting to return to the air after his small plane ran out of room on a wet runway slammed into a house in Arkansas Saturday, killing himself and a woman inside the home.
A small plane SABRE Lithium matriculation XASMR of ten seats, originating of Monterrey Nuevo Leo'n, piloted by its proprietor Daniel Reedbeds Insipid, confused to a flank of the airport Plan of Guadalupe.
July
5 July
Unofficial reports indicate that at least nine people died as a result of a plane crash next to the airport of Culiacán in Mexico.
Two people have been killed and seven others injured following a plane crash in Indreabhán in Connemara, Galway.
8 July - Boeing 787 Rollout (7/8/2007) in Everett, Washington's Boeing Everett Factory.
17 July - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil.
18 July - An Antonov An-24 of Malift Air shortly after taking off from Bandundu, DRC had an engine failure, lost altitude and crashed 8 km from Bandundu. Of the 2 crew and 8 passengers, all survived.
August
8 August - Virgin America began operations.
19 August - A China Airlines flight between Taipei and Okinawa sets on fire shortly after landing. There are no fatalities
26 August - In Kongolo, DRC 13 of 15 aboard die when an overloaded Antonov An-32 (reg 9Q-CAC) owned by Agefreco Air and operated by Great Lakes Business Company crashes while flying tin ore (Cassiterite)
September
1 September - two aerobatics aircraft collided during Radom Air Show, two pilots died in a crash.
16 September - a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 [HS-OMG] from the low-cost company One-Two-Go Airlines (Thailand) carrying 123 passengers and 7 crew crash landed at Phuket and caught fire. 89 people died.
24 September - a Let L-410 (reg 9Q-CVL) owned by Free Airlines crashes on landing at Malemba-Nkulu, DRC from Lubumbashi
October
4 October - An Antonov An-26 [9Q-COS] from Africa One / El Sam Airlift and charted by Malift Air crashed shortly after taking off from the Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, Congo. The airplane bound for Tshikapam crashed on the outskirt of Kinshasa killing 21 on board (1 crew survived) and at least 28 on the ground. This accident forced the Congolese minister of transportation to resign.
15 October - Airbus delivers its first A380 superjumbo jet to Singapore Airlines.
November
China Southern Airlines officially joined the SkyTeam alliance on November 15. Because of this, SkyTeam is the 1st airline alliance with a mainland china carrier. It is also a major push into the global network for mainland China.
December
ACAC ARJ21 Advanced Regional Jet is launched.
(planned) Air China and Shanghai Airlines are expected to join the Star Alliance on December 12th. This will give an extra push into the global network for mainland China.
First flights
January
23 January - Lockheed CATBird
July
26 July - Embraer Phenom 100 Executive Jet (in São José dos Campos,Brazil)
October
26 October - Embraer Lineage 1000
Enter Into Service (EIS)
October
25 October - The Airbus A380 with Singapore Airlines completed its first commercial flight between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
2006 in aviation
January
January 5 - Independence Air closed operations after declaring bankruptcy.
January 19 - Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India.
February
February 1 - UAL. Corp, United Airlines' parent company emerges from bankruptcy after being in such position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
February 11 - Steve Fossett broke the record for absolute longest distance flight without landing by taking off from Kennedy Space Center on 8 February, heading around the world eastbound, and then upon returning to Florida airspace, continued across the Atlantic for a second time to land in Bournemouth, England after a 76 hour 43 minute flight covering 42,469.46 km.
February 16 - Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service.
March
March 14 - Helios Airways was renamed to ajet.
March 16 - New Kitakyushu Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kitakyūshū, northeastern Kyūshū, Japan, opens for airline service, and Star Flyer, discount airline company of Japan, maiden flight Haneda-Kitakyūshū route.
March 25 - A revolutionary scramjet jet engine Hyshot III designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
March 29 - The Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service.
May
May 1 - Song (airline) turned down all operations to Delta Air Lines.
May 3 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea shortly before it was due to land at Adler-Sochi International Airport in Russia.
May 6 - The U.S. Air Force retired the last Lockheed Martin C-141 Starlifter The Hanoi Taxi landed for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at WPAFB in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton.
May 18 - The world's biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, lands at Heathrow Airport for the first time, making its UK debut.
May 23 - The collision of a Greek and a Turkish fighter jet above southeastern Aegean Sea results in the death of the Greek pilot. The accident took place as the two aircraft were involved in a mock fight.
June
June 3 - A Chinese KJ-200 airborne warning and control system aircraft crashes in Anhui province, China. All 40 people onboard were killed.
June 23 - The RAF Retire the Canberra from service after 55 years.
July
July 7 - Antonov An-12B operated as Mango Airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had engine failure after departure from Goma for Kisangani, and crashed into a hill and burned 10 km NW of Sake, DRC on return to Goma, killing all 6 aboard. (Reg RA-11338 was sold to Angola as D2-FRC in May 2000, then 9U-BHN and later 9Q-CVT)
July 8 - Aerospace scientists in Toronto conduct the first confirmed flight of a manned ornithopter operating under its own power.
July 9 - S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes in Irkutsk, Russia, killing at least 118 people of the 192 on the plane.
July 10 - All 45 passengers aboard PIA Flight 688 die in a crash on takeoff in Multan, Pakistan.
July 21-26 - the 17th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Troyes, France. Individual winners: 1. Krzysztof Wieczorek (Poland) - 3Xtrim, 2. Janusz Darocha (Poland) - Cessna 152, 3. Krzysztof Skrętowicz (Poland) - 3Xtrim. Team winners: 1. Poland, 2. Czech Republic, 3. France.
July 26-31 - the 15th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Troyes, France. Individual winners: Wacław Wieczorek / Michał Wieczorek (Poland), Jiří Filip / Michal Filip (Czech Republic), Petr Opat / Tomas Rajdl (Czech Republic). Team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. France.
August
August 10 - A plot to denonate several airliners over the Atlantic Ocean is foiled. Tightened security measures in the UK and USA and flight cancellations which happened afterwards caused severe chaos at several London airports.
August 22 - A Tupolev Tu-154 plane carrying 160 passengers and 10 crew from southern Russia to Saint Petersburg crashes in eastern Ukraine
August 25 - Rollout of first Block 20 RQ-4 Global Hawk at Northrop Grumman's Plant 42 manufacturing facility in Palmdale, California.
August 27 - Comair Flight 5191, carrying 47 passengers and 3 crew members crashes in Kentucky after taking off for Atlanta. One survivor is in critical condition. Cause of crash is unknown.
August 27- Boeing 737-900ER/9GP, is shown, with the first operator being Lion Air.
September
One of five existing Aerocar flying cars is put up for sale for $3.5 million[1]
September 1 – An Iran Air Tours Tu-154 carrying 148 people crashes while attempting to land in Mashad, Iran killing 29 people.
September 6 - Frontier Airlines operated a new airline named Lynx Aviation (United States).
September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, a Boeing 737, collides with an Embraer Legacy business jet and crashes in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Embraer Legacy, with seven on board, lands safely with no reported injuries. All 154 people on board the Boeing 737 perished.
October
October 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1476, a Boeing 737, is hijacked over Greece. The plane landed in Brindisi, Italy. None of the 113 people on board were hurt.
October 10 – Atlantic Airways Flight 670, a BAe 146, slides off the runway at Stord, Norway killing four of the 16 people on board.
October 11 – New York Yankees baseball pitcher Cory Lidle's Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashes in New York City, killing Lidle and his flight instructor.
October 25-26 - Oasis Hong Kong Airlines originally began service with initial service to London-Gatwick on the 25th but due to problems with rights flying over Russia, the initial flight OHK 700/O8 700 was delayed to the 26th.
October 31 - ajet, formerly Helios Airways, ceased operations.
November
November 1 - Emirates Airline cancels its order for 10 Airbus A340-600HGW.
November 3 - Qantas announces an order for 8 more Airbus A380 along with an order for 4 Airbus A330-200.
November 7 - FedEx announces the first cancellation of the Airbus A380. Instead FedEx orders 15 Boeing 777 Freighters.
November 7 - The Royal Australian Air Force's first C-17 Globemaster III makes its maiden flight.
November 14 - easyJet announces an order for 52 Airbus A319.
November 26 - United Airlines Flight 814 returned to Denver Airport after suffering a Coyote strike on take off. The Boeing 737 returned safely.
December
December 1 - Air Berlin orders 60 Boeing 737 with delivery scheduled for November 2007.
December 1 - CR Airways based in Hong Kong changes its name to Hong Kong Airlines.
December 5 - Lufthansa becomes the first airline to order the Boeing 747-8 passenger jet with an order for 20 planes and options for an additional 20 planes.
December 8 - NASA F/A-18 Hornet modified with Active Aeroelastic Wing is designated the X-53.
December 15 - First flight of a U.S. Air Force aircraft, a B-52 Stratofortress, powered solely by a blend of synthetic jet fuel, produced by Syntroleum.
First flights
April
April 7 - First free-flight of Boeing X-37
June
June 8 - Bell 417
June 19 - Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy
August
August 9 - BAE Skylynx II UAV
August 15 - EA-18 Growler First production aircraft
September
September 5 - Boeing 737-900ER.
September 12 - Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter.
October
October 23 - Production CH-47F
December
December 15 - F-35 Lightning II
December 18 - MQ-8B Fire Scout
Entered service
February - Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner with PIA
January 5 - Independence Air closed operations after declaring bankruptcy.
January 19 - Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India.
February
February 1 - UAL. Corp, United Airlines' parent company emerges from bankruptcy after being in such position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
February 11 - Steve Fossett broke the record for absolute longest distance flight without landing by taking off from Kennedy Space Center on 8 February, heading around the world eastbound, and then upon returning to Florida airspace, continued across the Atlantic for a second time to land in Bournemouth, England after a 76 hour 43 minute flight covering 42,469.46 km.
February 16 - Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service.
March
March 14 - Helios Airways was renamed to ajet.
March 16 - New Kitakyushu Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kitakyūshū, northeastern Kyūshū, Japan, opens for airline service, and Star Flyer, discount airline company of Japan, maiden flight Haneda-Kitakyūshū route.
March 25 - A revolutionary scramjet jet engine Hyshot III designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
March 29 - The Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service.
May
May 1 - Song (airline) turned down all operations to Delta Air Lines.
May 3 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea shortly before it was due to land at Adler-Sochi International Airport in Russia.
May 6 - The U.S. Air Force retired the last Lockheed Martin C-141 Starlifter The Hanoi Taxi landed for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at WPAFB in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton.
May 18 - The world's biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, lands at Heathrow Airport for the first time, making its UK debut.
May 23 - The collision of a Greek and a Turkish fighter jet above southeastern Aegean Sea results in the death of the Greek pilot. The accident took place as the two aircraft were involved in a mock fight.
June
June 3 - A Chinese KJ-200 airborne warning and control system aircraft crashes in Anhui province, China. All 40 people onboard were killed.
June 23 - The RAF Retire the Canberra from service after 55 years.
July
July 7 - Antonov An-12B operated as Mango Airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had engine failure after departure from Goma for Kisangani, and crashed into a hill and burned 10 km NW of Sake, DRC on return to Goma, killing all 6 aboard. (Reg RA-11338 was sold to Angola as D2-FRC in May 2000, then 9U-BHN and later 9Q-CVT)
July 8 - Aerospace scientists in Toronto conduct the first confirmed flight of a manned ornithopter operating under its own power.
July 9 - S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes in Irkutsk, Russia, killing at least 118 people of the 192 on the plane.
July 10 - All 45 passengers aboard PIA Flight 688 die in a crash on takeoff in Multan, Pakistan.
July 21-26 - the 17th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Troyes, France. Individual winners: 1. Krzysztof Wieczorek (Poland) - 3Xtrim, 2. Janusz Darocha (Poland) - Cessna 152, 3. Krzysztof Skrętowicz (Poland) - 3Xtrim. Team winners: 1. Poland, 2. Czech Republic, 3. France.
July 26-31 - the 15th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Troyes, France. Individual winners: Wacław Wieczorek / Michał Wieczorek (Poland), Jiří Filip / Michal Filip (Czech Republic), Petr Opat / Tomas Rajdl (Czech Republic). Team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. France.
August
August 10 - A plot to denonate several airliners over the Atlantic Ocean is foiled. Tightened security measures in the UK and USA and flight cancellations which happened afterwards caused severe chaos at several London airports.
August 22 - A Tupolev Tu-154 plane carrying 160 passengers and 10 crew from southern Russia to Saint Petersburg crashes in eastern Ukraine
August 25 - Rollout of first Block 20 RQ-4 Global Hawk at Northrop Grumman's Plant 42 manufacturing facility in Palmdale, California.
August 27 - Comair Flight 5191, carrying 47 passengers and 3 crew members crashes in Kentucky after taking off for Atlanta. One survivor is in critical condition. Cause of crash is unknown.
August 27- Boeing 737-900ER/9GP, is shown, with the first operator being Lion Air.
September
One of five existing Aerocar flying cars is put up for sale for $3.5 million[1]
September 1 – An Iran Air Tours Tu-154 carrying 148 people crashes while attempting to land in Mashad, Iran killing 29 people.
September 6 - Frontier Airlines operated a new airline named Lynx Aviation (United States).
September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, a Boeing 737, collides with an Embraer Legacy business jet and crashes in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Embraer Legacy, with seven on board, lands safely with no reported injuries. All 154 people on board the Boeing 737 perished.
October
October 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1476, a Boeing 737, is hijacked over Greece. The plane landed in Brindisi, Italy. None of the 113 people on board were hurt.
October 10 – Atlantic Airways Flight 670, a BAe 146, slides off the runway at Stord, Norway killing four of the 16 people on board.
October 11 – New York Yankees baseball pitcher Cory Lidle's Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashes in New York City, killing Lidle and his flight instructor.
October 25-26 - Oasis Hong Kong Airlines originally began service with initial service to London-Gatwick on the 25th but due to problems with rights flying over Russia, the initial flight OHK 700/O8 700 was delayed to the 26th.
October 31 - ajet, formerly Helios Airways, ceased operations.
November
November 1 - Emirates Airline cancels its order for 10 Airbus A340-600HGW.
November 3 - Qantas announces an order for 8 more Airbus A380 along with an order for 4 Airbus A330-200.
November 7 - FedEx announces the first cancellation of the Airbus A380. Instead FedEx orders 15 Boeing 777 Freighters.
November 7 - The Royal Australian Air Force's first C-17 Globemaster III makes its maiden flight.
November 14 - easyJet announces an order for 52 Airbus A319.
November 26 - United Airlines Flight 814 returned to Denver Airport after suffering a Coyote strike on take off. The Boeing 737 returned safely.
December
December 1 - Air Berlin orders 60 Boeing 737 with delivery scheduled for November 2007.
December 1 - CR Airways based in Hong Kong changes its name to Hong Kong Airlines.
December 5 - Lufthansa becomes the first airline to order the Boeing 747-8 passenger jet with an order for 20 planes and options for an additional 20 planes.
December 8 - NASA F/A-18 Hornet modified with Active Aeroelastic Wing is designated the X-53.
December 15 - First flight of a U.S. Air Force aircraft, a B-52 Stratofortress, powered solely by a blend of synthetic jet fuel, produced by Syntroleum.
First flights
April
April 7 - First free-flight of Boeing X-37
June
June 8 - Bell 417
June 19 - Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy
August
August 9 - BAE Skylynx II UAV
August 15 - EA-18 Growler First production aircraft
September
September 5 - Boeing 737-900ER.
September 12 - Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter.
October
October 23 - Production CH-47F
December
December 15 - F-35 Lightning II
December 18 - MQ-8B Fire Scout
Entered service
February - Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner with PIA
2005 in aviation
January
January 18 - The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, gets unveiled in an elaborate ceremony in France.
January 29 - Nonstop flights between mainland China and Taiwan take off for the first time since 1949.
February
February 3 - Kam Air Flight 904 crashes. There were no survivors.
February 9 - 13 - Aero-India show in Bangalore, India
February 17 - Several airlines will have to pay heavy compensation to passengers for flight delays and cancellations under a European regulation.
February 17 - Opening of a new international airport in Nagoya, Japan. It is the third Japanese international airport.
March
Lufthansa acquired their first 11% of Swiss International Air Lines
March 5 - Steve Fossett completes the first non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, completing the trip in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
March 11 - Jetsgo ceases all operations and declares bankruptcy protection.
March 11 - China's first private airline, Okay Airlines has its maiden revenue flight.
March 16 – A Regional Airlines Antonov An-24 aircraft carrying oil workers to Varandey, Russia crashed five kilometers from the runway. A mixture of bad weather and pilot error caused the crash. Twenty-six of the 45 passengers died as well as two of the seven crew members.
March 17 - A judge has found millionaire Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik and sawmill worker Ajaib Singh Bagri not guilty of conspiracy and murder in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people.
March 23 - Baku Cargo Terminal was opened and started to operate.
March 28 - Chicago Express, also known as ATA Connection, ceased operations.
April
April 12 – A GT Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 aircraft crashes in Indonesia, all 18 on board die.
May
May 3 – Airwork Flight 23, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner crashes in Taranaki, New Zealand killing both crew members.
May 25 – A chartered Maniema Union Antonov An-28 aircraft, owned by Victoria Air, crashed into a mountain near Walungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo about 30 minutes after takeoff. All of the 22 passengers and 5 crew members were killed.
June
June 9 - US Airways Flight 1170 and Aer Lingus Flight 132 almost collide on the runway, but all 381 on both planes lived.
July
July 2–3 - Steve Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated the first direct crossing of the Atlantic by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown on June 14, 1919 in a Vickers Vimy bi-plane.
July 29 The U.S. Army awards a contract for the purchase of 368 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) to Bell Helicopter Textron.
August
August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after skidding off the end of a runway after landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. All 309 people aboard survive.
August 6 - A Tuninter ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
August 14 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew.
August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a charter flight, crashes into the mountains of Venezuela with no survivors.
August 23 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes in Peru.
September
September 5 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117.
September 5 - an Antonov An-12BP cargo aircraft (reg 4L-SAS) owned by Transaviaservice of Georgia, operated for Galaxy Kavatsi of DRC, and flying with an expired Georgian license overshoots and burns at Goma DRC while stopping en route to Bukavu. Five crew (two Ukrainians, two Georgians, one Congolese) and three minor passengers (Congolese girls) were killed.
September 6 - a small aircraft near Goma DRC, killing the pilot and injuring passengers[2]
September 9 - an Antonov operated by Air Kasai in the DRC crashes 50 km north of Brazzaville killing 14 including 4 crew on a flight from Buendé to Kinshasa [3]
September 21 - JetBlue Airways Flight 292, an Airbus A320 makes an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after its nose wheels got stuck at a 90 degree angle. All 145 people on board survived.
October
October 6 - A small plane carrying cargo for FedEx, including six vials of research viruses, crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The only woman on board, the pilot, was killed but there were no injuries on the ground.
October 14 - Air Jamaica Express ceased operations.
October 29 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
November
14 November - Boeing launches 747-8.
December
December 26 - At around 6PM, a Piper Aztec, Registered N444DA, crashed in shallow water off the coast of the island of South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands. Its destination was Providenciales International Airport. All 4 on board (1 pilot 3 passengers) died.
First flights
April
April 27 - The first Airbus A380, registration F-WWOW, makes its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
June
June 21 - First captive flight of Boeing X-37 under the Scaled Composites White Knight
Entered service
December- F-22 Raptor with the 27th fighter squadron
January 18 - The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, gets unveiled in an elaborate ceremony in France.
January 29 - Nonstop flights between mainland China and Taiwan take off for the first time since 1949.
February
February 3 - Kam Air Flight 904 crashes. There were no survivors.
February 9 - 13 - Aero-India show in Bangalore, India
February 17 - Several airlines will have to pay heavy compensation to passengers for flight delays and cancellations under a European regulation.
February 17 - Opening of a new international airport in Nagoya, Japan. It is the third Japanese international airport.
March
Lufthansa acquired their first 11% of Swiss International Air Lines
March 5 - Steve Fossett completes the first non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, completing the trip in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
March 11 - Jetsgo ceases all operations and declares bankruptcy protection.
March 11 - China's first private airline, Okay Airlines has its maiden revenue flight.
March 16 – A Regional Airlines Antonov An-24 aircraft carrying oil workers to Varandey, Russia crashed five kilometers from the runway. A mixture of bad weather and pilot error caused the crash. Twenty-six of the 45 passengers died as well as two of the seven crew members.
March 17 - A judge has found millionaire Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik and sawmill worker Ajaib Singh Bagri not guilty of conspiracy and murder in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people.
March 23 - Baku Cargo Terminal was opened and started to operate.
March 28 - Chicago Express, also known as ATA Connection, ceased operations.
April
April 12 – A GT Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 aircraft crashes in Indonesia, all 18 on board die.
May
May 3 – Airwork Flight 23, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner crashes in Taranaki, New Zealand killing both crew members.
May 25 – A chartered Maniema Union Antonov An-28 aircraft, owned by Victoria Air, crashed into a mountain near Walungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo about 30 minutes after takeoff. All of the 22 passengers and 5 crew members were killed.
June
June 9 - US Airways Flight 1170 and Aer Lingus Flight 132 almost collide on the runway, but all 381 on both planes lived.
July
July 2–3 - Steve Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated the first direct crossing of the Atlantic by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown on June 14, 1919 in a Vickers Vimy bi-plane.
July 29 The U.S. Army awards a contract for the purchase of 368 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) to Bell Helicopter Textron.
August
August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after skidding off the end of a runway after landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. All 309 people aboard survive.
August 6 - A Tuninter ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
August 14 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew.
August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a charter flight, crashes into the mountains of Venezuela with no survivors.
August 23 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes in Peru.
September
September 5 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117.
September 5 - an Antonov An-12BP cargo aircraft (reg 4L-SAS) owned by Transaviaservice of Georgia, operated for Galaxy Kavatsi of DRC, and flying with an expired Georgian license overshoots and burns at Goma DRC while stopping en route to Bukavu. Five crew (two Ukrainians, two Georgians, one Congolese) and three minor passengers (Congolese girls) were killed.
September 6 - a small aircraft near Goma DRC, killing the pilot and injuring passengers[2]
September 9 - an Antonov operated by Air Kasai in the DRC crashes 50 km north of Brazzaville killing 14 including 4 crew on a flight from Buendé to Kinshasa [3]
September 21 - JetBlue Airways Flight 292, an Airbus A320 makes an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after its nose wheels got stuck at a 90 degree angle. All 145 people on board survived.
October
October 6 - A small plane carrying cargo for FedEx, including six vials of research viruses, crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The only woman on board, the pilot, was killed but there were no injuries on the ground.
October 14 - Air Jamaica Express ceased operations.
October 29 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
November
14 November - Boeing launches 747-8.
December
December 26 - At around 6PM, a Piper Aztec, Registered N444DA, crashed in shallow water off the coast of the island of South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands. Its destination was Providenciales International Airport. All 4 on board (1 pilot 3 passengers) died.
First flights
April
April 27 - The first Airbus A380, registration F-WWOW, makes its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
June
June 21 - First captive flight of Boeing X-37 under the Scaled Composites White Knight
Entered service
December- F-22 Raptor with the 27th fighter squadron
2004 in aviation
January
Jan 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears.
Jan 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
Jan 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing all 37 aboard.
February
February 12 - United Airlines created another airline, this time called Ted (airline).
March
March 27 - NASA's X-43 pilotless plane breaks world speed record for an atmospheric engine by briefly flying at 7,700 kilometers (4,780 miles) per hour (seven times the speed of sound)
April
April 4 - Alaska Airlines discontinues service between San Francisco and Tucson.
May
May 5 - Air France and Netherlands-based KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) merge, the two airlines are now known as Air France-KLM.
May 9 - Southwest Airlines begins service to Philadelphia International Airport.
May 12 - The last F-4 Phantom fighters are withdrawn from service with the Israeli Air Force.
May 23 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Billings, Montana and Spokane, Washington.
May 27 - Delta Air Lines begins service between Cincinnati and New Haven.
June
Jun 1 - America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.
Jun 6 - Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.
Jun 20 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.
Jun 21 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
July
Jul 14-20 - the 14th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: 1. Jiří Filip & Michal Filip (Czech), 2. František Cihlář & Milos Fiala (Czech), 3. Krzysztof Wieczorek & Krzysztof Skrętowicz (Poland); team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. France.
Jul 19-24 - the 16th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: Krzysztof Wieczorek (Poland) - 3Xtrim, 2. Petr Opat (Czech) - Cessna 152, 3. Wacław Wieczorek (Poland) - PZL Wilga 2000; team winners: 1. Poland, 2. Czech Republic, 3. France.
August
Aug 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047 explode south of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. The Russian government declares the explosions to have been caused by Chechen terrorists
October
Oct 4 - SpaceShipOne successfully makes her 3rd flight into space and proves to be a plausible option for space tourism, thus winning the Ansari X-Prize
November
November 1 - Pan American Airways, or Pan Am III, turned down operations once again, but gave operations to Boston-Maine Airways.
November 16 - NASA's X-43 reaches a record speed of Mach 9.8 (7,546 mph, 12,144 km/h)
December
December 9 - The U.S. Army issues a request for proposals (RFP) for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH).
December 10 - Two CT-114 Tutors from Canada's Snowbirds aerobatic team collide while training near Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Captain Miles Selby is killed and Captain Chuck Mallet is injured.
December 10 - The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an Emergency Airworthiness Directive effectively grounding the entire U.S. fleet of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft. The AD is in response to fatal in-flight structural failure accidents during simulated aerial combat flights.
First flights
Aero-Cam Slick 360
March
March 5 - Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
May
May 29 - Aceair AERIKS 200
June
June 18 - Airblue flies its first flight, a private airline in Pakistan
June 21 - First sub-orbital flight of SpaceShipOne
July
July 15 - Aermacchi M-346
July 20 - Aerocomp Comp Air Jet
Jan 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears.
Jan 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
Jan 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing all 37 aboard.
February
February 12 - United Airlines created another airline, this time called Ted (airline).
March
March 27 - NASA's X-43 pilotless plane breaks world speed record for an atmospheric engine by briefly flying at 7,700 kilometers (4,780 miles) per hour (seven times the speed of sound)
April
April 4 - Alaska Airlines discontinues service between San Francisco and Tucson.
May
May 5 - Air France and Netherlands-based KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) merge, the two airlines are now known as Air France-KLM.
May 9 - Southwest Airlines begins service to Philadelphia International Airport.
May 12 - The last F-4 Phantom fighters are withdrawn from service with the Israeli Air Force.
May 23 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Billings, Montana and Spokane, Washington.
May 27 - Delta Air Lines begins service between Cincinnati and New Haven.
June
Jun 1 - America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.
Jun 6 - Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.
Jun 20 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.
Jun 21 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
July
Jul 14-20 - the 14th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: 1. Jiří Filip & Michal Filip (Czech), 2. František Cihlář & Milos Fiala (Czech), 3. Krzysztof Wieczorek & Krzysztof Skrętowicz (Poland); team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. France.
Jul 19-24 - the 16th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: Krzysztof Wieczorek (Poland) - 3Xtrim, 2. Petr Opat (Czech) - Cessna 152, 3. Wacław Wieczorek (Poland) - PZL Wilga 2000; team winners: 1. Poland, 2. Czech Republic, 3. France.
August
Aug 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047 explode south of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. The Russian government declares the explosions to have been caused by Chechen terrorists
October
Oct 4 - SpaceShipOne successfully makes her 3rd flight into space and proves to be a plausible option for space tourism, thus winning the Ansari X-Prize
November
November 1 - Pan American Airways, or Pan Am III, turned down operations once again, but gave operations to Boston-Maine Airways.
November 16 - NASA's X-43 reaches a record speed of Mach 9.8 (7,546 mph, 12,144 km/h)
December
December 9 - The U.S. Army issues a request for proposals (RFP) for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH).
December 10 - Two CT-114 Tutors from Canada's Snowbirds aerobatic team collide while training near Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Captain Miles Selby is killed and Captain Chuck Mallet is injured.
December 10 - The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an Emergency Airworthiness Directive effectively grounding the entire U.S. fleet of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft. The AD is in response to fatal in-flight structural failure accidents during simulated aerial combat flights.
First flights
Aero-Cam Slick 360
March
March 5 - Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
May
May 29 - Aceair AERIKS 200
June
June 18 - Airblue flies its first flight, a private airline in Pakistan
June 21 - First sub-orbital flight of SpaceShipOne
July
July 15 - Aermacchi M-346
July 20 - Aerocomp Comp Air Jet
2003 in aviation
February
February 1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates, killing all seven occupants.
February 5 - 9 - Aero-India show is held at Bangalore
Fina Air begins services.
May
May 25 - Boeing 727 tail number N844AA mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with Ben Charles Padilla.
May 30 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
August
July 26-August 3 - the 13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Rustenburg, South Africa. Individual winners: 1. Nigel Hopkins & Dale de Klerk (South Africa), 2. Janusz Darocha & Zbigniew Chrząszcz (Poland), 3. Nathalie Strube / P. Sicard (France); team winners: 1. South Africa, 2. France, 3. Poland.
August 11, The Spirit of Butts Farm becomes the first flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft.
September
September 14 - USAF Thunderbirds #6 solo crashes into the tarmac at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, while attempting its initial maneuver at the Gunfighter Skies 2003 air show. The pilot safely ejected just moments before impact. Pilot error (insufficient altitude) is determined as the cause and the pilot is reassigned to the Pentagon. Although the desert terrain is similar, the ground elevation at Mountain Home AFB is over 1000 feet higher than the Thunderbirds' home base at Nellis AFB.
Skip Holm, flying the modified P-51D 'Dago Red', sets a new closed-course piston-engine speed record of 507 mph at the Reno Air Races.
October
October 15 - Yang Liwei becomes the People's Republic of China's first man in space.
October 24, the Concorde makes its last scheduled commercial flight.
November
November 22, the DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad.
November 26, the last "retirement" Concorde flight.
December
December 17, on the anniversary of the Wright Flyer's achievement, SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound,
December 25, United Transit 141 crashes in Benin, spreading rumors that it is the Boeing 727 that disappeared earlier during the year.
December: The 100th birthday of aviation has begun.
First flights
March
March 6 - Bell/Agusta BA609
March 7 - HAL HJT-36.
May
May 20 - SpaceShipOne (first captive flight, unmanned)
July
July 28 - Adam A700 AdamJet
July 29 - SpaceShipOne (first manned captive flight)
August
August 1 - First successful supersonic flight of the HAL Light Combat Aircraft's (LCA's) first technology demonstrator, TD-1.
August 7 - SpaceShipOne (first free-flight)
December
December 17 - SpaceShipOne (first powered flight)
February 1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates, killing all seven occupants.
February 5 - 9 - Aero-India show is held at Bangalore
Fina Air begins services.
May
May 25 - Boeing 727 tail number N844AA mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with Ben Charles Padilla.
May 30 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
August
July 26-August 3 - the 13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Rustenburg, South Africa. Individual winners: 1. Nigel Hopkins & Dale de Klerk (South Africa), 2. Janusz Darocha & Zbigniew Chrząszcz (Poland), 3. Nathalie Strube / P. Sicard (France); team winners: 1. South Africa, 2. France, 3. Poland.
August 11, The Spirit of Butts Farm becomes the first flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft.
September
September 14 - USAF Thunderbirds #6 solo crashes into the tarmac at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, while attempting its initial maneuver at the Gunfighter Skies 2003 air show. The pilot safely ejected just moments before impact. Pilot error (insufficient altitude) is determined as the cause and the pilot is reassigned to the Pentagon. Although the desert terrain is similar, the ground elevation at Mountain Home AFB is over 1000 feet higher than the Thunderbirds' home base at Nellis AFB.
Skip Holm, flying the modified P-51D 'Dago Red', sets a new closed-course piston-engine speed record of 507 mph at the Reno Air Races.
October
October 15 - Yang Liwei becomes the People's Republic of China's first man in space.
October 24, the Concorde makes its last scheduled commercial flight.
November
November 22, the DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad.
November 26, the last "retirement" Concorde flight.
December
December 17, on the anniversary of the Wright Flyer's achievement, SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound,
December 25, United Transit 141 crashes in Benin, spreading rumors that it is the Boeing 727 that disappeared earlier during the year.
December: The 100th birthday of aviation has begun.
First flights
March
March 6 - Bell/Agusta BA609
March 7 - HAL HJT-36.
May
May 20 - SpaceShipOne (first captive flight, unmanned)
July
July 28 - Adam A700 AdamJet
July 29 - SpaceShipOne (first manned captive flight)
August
August 1 - First successful supersonic flight of the HAL Light Combat Aircraft's (LCA's) first technology demonstrator, TD-1.
August 7 - SpaceShipOne (first free-flight)
December
December 17 - SpaceShipOne (first powered flight)
2002 in aviation
Events
A depression in North American commercial aviation begins in the aftermath of economic recession and the September 11 attacks.
January
January 5 Cessna 172 with the pilot high-school student Charles J. Bishop crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room.
March
March 4 - Ansett (Mark II) permanently ceases operations.
March 8 - A Portuguese Air Force 201 Squadron F-16 crashes in Monte Real while landing, killing the pilot.
March 31 - Swiss International Air Lines begins operations, taking over many routes from bankrupt Swissair.
April
April 9 - A Portuguese Air Force 552 Squadron Alouette III crashes, killing the three crewman.
April 15 - Air China Flight 129 a Boeing 767, crashes at a mountainside near Busan. 128 of 166 on board are killed.
April 18 The crash happened when a Rockwell Commander A112 crashed on 17:48 (local time)into the upper floors of the Pirelli Tower. The crash killed the pilot Fasulos and four others in the building. Sixty more people sustained injuries in the building and on the ground.
July
July 7-14 - the 15th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Zagreb, Croatia. Individual winners: 1. Lubos Hajek (Czech Republic, Cessna 152), 2. Janusz Darocha (Poland, Cessna 152), 3. Predrag Crnko (Croatia, Cessna 150). Team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. Croatia.
July 17 - Midway Airlines suspends operations.
July 25 Su-27 fighter plane crashes into a crowd of spectators at an air show in Sknyliv near Lviv, Ukraine killing 77.
July 29 - Vanguard Airlines ceases operations. The next day it files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy law.
July-December Italian conservationist and pilot Mr. Angelo d'Arrigo, guided a flock of 10 endangered Western Siberian Cranes -bred in captivity- with a foot-launched Powered Hang Glider 5,500 km from the Arctic Circle in Siberia, across Kazakhstan to the shores of the Caspian Sea in Iran, avoiding Afghanistan and Pakistan —where they fall victim to the abundant guns.
August
August 10 - US Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
August 13 - Midway Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
October
October 18 - Boeing reveals its Bird of Prey stealth technology demonstrator, which has conducted a number of flights during the period 1996 to 1999.
November
November 6 - National Airlines, already operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, permanently ceases operations.
November 18 - American Airlines and British Airways announce plans to codeshare some transatlantic flights, but the partnership is heavily restricted by US regulators.
December
December 9 - United Airlines files for Chapter 11 reorganization, the largest airline bankruptcy in US history.
First flights
January
January 15 - Millennium Jet SoloTrek XFV
January 15 - Airbus A318
January 23 - IITB PADD Micro airship
February
February 11 - Airbus A340-500
February 16 - WD D5 Evolution
February 19 - Embraer 170
February 27 - Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign
February ?? - Socata TBM 700C2
March
March 4 - Van's RV-9
March 7 - Aviat Husky Pup
March 28 - AATG AT-10 airship
April
April 4 - Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk
April 21 - Irkut A-002
April 26 - Extra 500
April 29 - Saab JAS 39C Gripen
May
May 18 - Tomair Cobra Arrow
May 22 - Zlin Z 400 Rhino
May 22 - Boeing X-45
May 29 - Aceair Aeriks A-200
May 31 - Toyota TAA-1
June
June 1 - Aero L159B
June 22 - Tupolev Tu-214VSSN
June 28 - CAC J-10
June 30 - 21st Century Airships SPAS-R1
July
July 1 - Pilatus PC-21
July 9 - CargoLifter Scala
July 11 - Adam A500
July 18 - Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser (ABL)
July 31 - Boeing 747-400ER
August
August 1 - Scaled Composites White Knight
August 5 - BAE Systems Hawk NDA
August 20 - KAI T-50 Golden Eagle
August 26 - Eclipse Aviation Eclipse 500
August 31 - Learjet 40
September
September 18 - GE90-115B, world's most powerful jet engine
September 20 - BAE Systems Harrier GR Mk 7A
November
November 9 - MVEN MVEN-1 Fermer
November 30 - Sauper Aviation Papango
December
December 9 - Diamond Twin Star
December 12 - Grob G 140TP
Entered service
Airbus A340-600 with Virgin Atlantic Airways
March
March 18 - HAL Dhruv with the Indian Coast Guard
A depression in North American commercial aviation begins in the aftermath of economic recession and the September 11 attacks.
January
January 5 Cessna 172 with the pilot high-school student Charles J. Bishop crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room.
March
March 4 - Ansett (Mark II) permanently ceases operations.
March 8 - A Portuguese Air Force 201 Squadron F-16 crashes in Monte Real while landing, killing the pilot.
March 31 - Swiss International Air Lines begins operations, taking over many routes from bankrupt Swissair.
April
April 9 - A Portuguese Air Force 552 Squadron Alouette III crashes, killing the three crewman.
April 15 - Air China Flight 129 a Boeing 767, crashes at a mountainside near Busan. 128 of 166 on board are killed.
April 18 The crash happened when a Rockwell Commander A112 crashed on 17:48 (local time)into the upper floors of the Pirelli Tower. The crash killed the pilot Fasulos and four others in the building. Sixty more people sustained injuries in the building and on the ground.
July
July 7-14 - the 15th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Zagreb, Croatia. Individual winners: 1. Lubos Hajek (Czech Republic, Cessna 152), 2. Janusz Darocha (Poland, Cessna 152), 3. Predrag Crnko (Croatia, Cessna 150). Team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. Croatia.
July 17 - Midway Airlines suspends operations.
July 25 Su-27 fighter plane crashes into a crowd of spectators at an air show in Sknyliv near Lviv, Ukraine killing 77.
July 29 - Vanguard Airlines ceases operations. The next day it files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy law.
July-December Italian conservationist and pilot Mr. Angelo d'Arrigo, guided a flock of 10 endangered Western Siberian Cranes -bred in captivity- with a foot-launched Powered Hang Glider 5,500 km from the Arctic Circle in Siberia, across Kazakhstan to the shores of the Caspian Sea in Iran, avoiding Afghanistan and Pakistan —where they fall victim to the abundant guns.
August
August 10 - US Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
August 13 - Midway Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
October
October 18 - Boeing reveals its Bird of Prey stealth technology demonstrator, which has conducted a number of flights during the period 1996 to 1999.
November
November 6 - National Airlines, already operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, permanently ceases operations.
November 18 - American Airlines and British Airways announce plans to codeshare some transatlantic flights, but the partnership is heavily restricted by US regulators.
December
December 9 - United Airlines files for Chapter 11 reorganization, the largest airline bankruptcy in US history.
First flights
January
January 15 - Millennium Jet SoloTrek XFV
January 15 - Airbus A318
January 23 - IITB PADD Micro airship
February
February 11 - Airbus A340-500
February 16 - WD D5 Evolution
February 19 - Embraer 170
February 27 - Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign
February ?? - Socata TBM 700C2
March
March 4 - Van's RV-9
March 7 - Aviat Husky Pup
March 28 - AATG AT-10 airship
April
April 4 - Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk
April 21 - Irkut A-002
April 26 - Extra 500
April 29 - Saab JAS 39C Gripen
May
May 18 - Tomair Cobra Arrow
May 22 - Zlin Z 400 Rhino
May 22 - Boeing X-45
May 29 - Aceair Aeriks A-200
May 31 - Toyota TAA-1
June
June 1 - Aero L159B
June 22 - Tupolev Tu-214VSSN
June 28 - CAC J-10
June 30 - 21st Century Airships SPAS-R1
July
July 1 - Pilatus PC-21
July 9 - CargoLifter Scala
July 11 - Adam A500
July 18 - Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser (ABL)
July 31 - Boeing 747-400ER
August
August 1 - Scaled Composites White Knight
August 5 - BAE Systems Hawk NDA
August 20 - KAI T-50 Golden Eagle
August 26 - Eclipse Aviation Eclipse 500
August 31 - Learjet 40
September
September 18 - GE90-115B, world's most powerful jet engine
September 20 - BAE Systems Harrier GR Mk 7A
November
November 9 - MVEN MVEN-1 Fermer
November 30 - Sauper Aviation Papango
December
December 9 - Diamond Twin Star
December 12 - Grob G 140TP
Entered service
Airbus A340-600 with Virgin Atlantic Airways
March
March 18 - HAL Dhruv with the Indian Coast Guard
2001 in aviation
March
March 29 - An Avjet charter flight, a Gulfstream III jet with 15 passengers and 3 crew, crashes on approach into Aspen, CO, killing all on board.
April
April 24 - The unmanned aircraft RQ-4 Global Hawk flies automatically from Edwards Air Force Base in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled. This is the longest point-to-point flight ever undertaken by an unmanned aircraft, the first pilotless aircraft to cross the Pacific Ocean, and took 23 hours and 23 minutes.
June
June 12 - Jetsgo, a canadian airline, commenced operations.
July
July 1 - Singapore Airlines Cargo, operated by Singapore Airlines, began operations.
September
September 11 - 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people. One, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had a mid-air collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315. The four flights were American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, United Airlines Flight 175, which hit the South Tower of the WTC, American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93, which was to hit the United States Capitol, but was taken over by the passengers and crashed in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
September 24 - 13 days after 9/11, US Airways decided to terminate all flights from MetroJet.
October
October 3 - The TU-154 Sibir airlines jet took off from the Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel bound for the Siberian town of Novosibirsk and Russian aircraft with up to 78 passengers aboard crashed into the Black sea.
October 8 - The aircraft SAS MD87 was taking off from Milan's Linate airport in Italy for a flight to Copenhagen when it collided with a Cessna Citation on the fog-shrouded runway. The airliner then crashed into a nearby hangar and caught fire. All six crew members and 104 passengers on the airliner were killed, as were the four occupants of the business jet and four airport workers on the ground.
October 31 - Air Canada Jetz, operated by Air Canada, commenced operations.
November
November 12 - New York City suffers its second plane disaster in as many months when American Airlines Flight 587 crashes due to mechanical failure, killing 265 people.
bmi begins transatlantic flights from Manchester after a failed attempt to gain transatlantic flights from London Heathrow Airport.
British Airways aborts a plan to take over KLM due to technical issues in the open skies treaty between the U.S. and the Netherlands.
British Airways also drops its controversial ethnic tailfins; first adopted in 1997 the process was slowed in 1999, finally Chief Executive Rod Eddington that all aircraft would be painted with the new Union flag livery (one of the "ethnic" designs).
December
December 28 - USA3000 Airlines began operations.
First flights
January
January 4 - The HAL Light Combat Aircraft's (LCA's) first technology demonstrator, TD-1.
February
February 2 - Prototype General Atomics RQ-1 Predator B, later redesignated MQ-9 Reaper.
July
July 21 - XCOR EZ-Rocket, flown by Dick Rutan.
March 29 - An Avjet charter flight, a Gulfstream III jet with 15 passengers and 3 crew, crashes on approach into Aspen, CO, killing all on board.
April
April 24 - The unmanned aircraft RQ-4 Global Hawk flies automatically from Edwards Air Force Base in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled. This is the longest point-to-point flight ever undertaken by an unmanned aircraft, the first pilotless aircraft to cross the Pacific Ocean, and took 23 hours and 23 minutes.
June
June 12 - Jetsgo, a canadian airline, commenced operations.
July
July 1 - Singapore Airlines Cargo, operated by Singapore Airlines, began operations.
September
September 11 - 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people. One, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had a mid-air collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315. The four flights were American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, United Airlines Flight 175, which hit the South Tower of the WTC, American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93, which was to hit the United States Capitol, but was taken over by the passengers and crashed in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
September 24 - 13 days after 9/11, US Airways decided to terminate all flights from MetroJet.
October
October 3 - The TU-154 Sibir airlines jet took off from the Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel bound for the Siberian town of Novosibirsk and Russian aircraft with up to 78 passengers aboard crashed into the Black sea.
October 8 - The aircraft SAS MD87 was taking off from Milan's Linate airport in Italy for a flight to Copenhagen when it collided with a Cessna Citation on the fog-shrouded runway. The airliner then crashed into a nearby hangar and caught fire. All six crew members and 104 passengers on the airliner were killed, as were the four occupants of the business jet and four airport workers on the ground.
October 31 - Air Canada Jetz, operated by Air Canada, commenced operations.
November
November 12 - New York City suffers its second plane disaster in as many months when American Airlines Flight 587 crashes due to mechanical failure, killing 265 people.
bmi begins transatlantic flights from Manchester after a failed attempt to gain transatlantic flights from London Heathrow Airport.
British Airways aborts a plan to take over KLM due to technical issues in the open skies treaty between the U.S. and the Netherlands.
British Airways also drops its controversial ethnic tailfins; first adopted in 1997 the process was slowed in 1999, finally Chief Executive Rod Eddington that all aircraft would be painted with the new Union flag livery (one of the "ethnic" designs).
December
December 28 - USA3000 Airlines began operations.
First flights
January
January 4 - The HAL Light Combat Aircraft's (LCA's) first technology demonstrator, TD-1.
February
February 2 - Prototype General Atomics RQ-1 Predator B, later redesignated MQ-9 Reaper.
July
July 21 - XCOR EZ-Rocket, flown by Dick Rutan.
2000 in aviation
January
January 30 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 - An Alaska Airlines Flight 261,an McDonnell Douglas MD-83,Crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Los Angeles, 20 miles west of Point Mugu Naval Air Station. 88 passengers and crew are killed.
February
February 11 - JetBlue Airways commenced operations.
April
April 19 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.
May
May 15 - Helios Airways commenced airline operations.
July
July 10 - EADS is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, Dornier, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA).
July 25 - a Concorde of Air France (Air France Flight 4590) catches fire after takeoff, crashing and killing all 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground, at Gonesse, France.
August
August 31 - Virgin Blue began airline operations.
November
November 3 - Last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft as a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center delivered the last EC-135E, (serial number 60-374 - nicknamed "The Bird of Prey"), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment (PMEE), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
First flights
January
RQ-8A Fire Scout first autonomous flight
February
February 29 - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35
March
Adam M-309 CarbonAero
July
July 18 - Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc stealth UAV
January 30 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 - An Alaska Airlines Flight 261,an McDonnell Douglas MD-83,Crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Los Angeles, 20 miles west of Point Mugu Naval Air Station. 88 passengers and crew are killed.
February
February 11 - JetBlue Airways commenced operations.
April
April 19 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.
May
May 15 - Helios Airways commenced airline operations.
July
July 10 - EADS is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, Dornier, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA).
July 25 - a Concorde of Air France (Air France Flight 4590) catches fire after takeoff, crashing and killing all 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground, at Gonesse, France.
August
August 31 - Virgin Blue began airline operations.
November
November 3 - Last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft as a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center delivered the last EC-135E, (serial number 60-374 - nicknamed "The Bird of Prey"), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment (PMEE), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
First flights
January
RQ-8A Fire Scout first autonomous flight
February
February 29 - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35
March
Adam M-309 CarbonAero
July
July 18 - Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc stealth UAV
1999 in aviation
February
February 16 - Gulfstream II carrying film director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Men in Black II, and Wild, Wild West, slid off runway at Van Nuys, California; Sonnenfeld was uninjured.
February 24 – A China Southwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in Ruian, China while descending to land at an airport. All 61 passengers and crew members were killed.
March
March 29 - Crash of #2 RQ-4 Global Hawk prototype at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
June
June 1 - Crash of American Airlines Flight 1420. A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N215AA) overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock, killing 11 and injuring 110.
July
July 24 – All Nippon Airways Flight 61, a Boeing 747 was hijacked by a passenger, Yuji Nishizawa, wielding a knife. After fatally stabbing the captain, he was overpowered by the crew and the co-pilot landed the plane safely at Haneda, Japan.
August
August 7 – A TACV Cabo Verde Airlines Dornier Do 228 (charter from the Cape Verde Coast Guard) crashed into a cliff on Santo Antão, Cape Verde during poor weather. All 18 people on board were killed.
August 22 – Mandarin Airlines Flight 642, an McDonnell Douglas MD-11, crashed on landing at Hong Kong during Tropical Storm Sam. Of the 315 people on board, three died.
August 24 – On board a Uni Air McDonnell Douglas DC-9 a fire starts in an overhead luggage compartment over Hualien Taiwan. The fire was cause by the accidental ignition fumes from a bottle of household cleaner. One person died.
August 31 – LAPA Boeing 737 overshoots the runway in Buenos Aires, Argentina and crashes into a golf course. Of the 103 people on board, 64 are killed as well as ten on the ground.
September
September 4-September 12 - the 11th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Ravenna, Italy. Individual winners: 1st Krzysztof Wieczorek & Wacław Wieczorek (Poland), 2nd Janusz Darocha & Zbigniew Chrząszcz (Poland), 3rd Nigel Hopkins & Dale de Klerk (South Africa); team winners: 1st Poland, 2nd Czech Republic, 3rd France.
September 23 – Qantas Flight 1, a Boeing 747, overshoots the runway upon landing in Bangkok, Thailand. None of the 410 people on board were seriously injured.
October
October 25 - Crash in South Dakota of a Learjet 35 killing professional golfer and 1999 U.S. Open winner Payne Stewart and five others.
October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, a Boeing 767 on its way Cairo, Egypt, was deliberately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts by the co-pilot as a way of committing suicide. All 217 passengers and crew members on board were killed.
November
November 9 – TAESA Flight 725, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes near Uruapan, Mexico killing all 18 on board.
December
December 11 – A SATA International British Aerospace APT crashed on São Jorge Island in the Azores. All 35 people on board were killed.
December 21 – A Cubana de Aviacon McDonnell Douglas DC-10 overshot the runway in Guatemala City, Guatemala and crashes into homes. Of the 314 people on board, 16 die as well as two people in the homes.
December 24 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked en route to Delhi, India. After stopovers in Lahore and Dubai, it landed in Kandhar (Afghanistan), where after several days of negotiations, all the hostages were released in exchange for the release of three senior Islamic fighters held by India.
December 25 – A Cubana de Aviacon Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into a mountain near Bejuma, Venezuela killing all 22 on board.
December 31 - Fear of the Y2K computer bug and possible in-flight consequences for those planes flying during the night of December 31, 1999 and the early morning of January 1, 2000, spreads around the airline industry.
First flights
February
February 8 - Tupolev Tu-334
March
March 1-19 - Hot air balloon Breitling Orbiter 3, with pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, begins the first non-stop, round the world balloon flight. This sets a new distance record for any type of aircraft of 40,804 kilometers (25,360hkgh miles).
July
July 28 - Rotary Rocket Roton ATV
February 16 - Gulfstream II carrying film director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Men in Black II, and Wild, Wild West, slid off runway at Van Nuys, California; Sonnenfeld was uninjured.
February 24 – A China Southwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in Ruian, China while descending to land at an airport. All 61 passengers and crew members were killed.
March
March 29 - Crash of #2 RQ-4 Global Hawk prototype at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
June
June 1 - Crash of American Airlines Flight 1420. A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N215AA) overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock, killing 11 and injuring 110.
July
July 24 – All Nippon Airways Flight 61, a Boeing 747 was hijacked by a passenger, Yuji Nishizawa, wielding a knife. After fatally stabbing the captain, he was overpowered by the crew and the co-pilot landed the plane safely at Haneda, Japan.
August
August 7 – A TACV Cabo Verde Airlines Dornier Do 228 (charter from the Cape Verde Coast Guard) crashed into a cliff on Santo Antão, Cape Verde during poor weather. All 18 people on board were killed.
August 22 – Mandarin Airlines Flight 642, an McDonnell Douglas MD-11, crashed on landing at Hong Kong during Tropical Storm Sam. Of the 315 people on board, three died.
August 24 – On board a Uni Air McDonnell Douglas DC-9 a fire starts in an overhead luggage compartment over Hualien Taiwan. The fire was cause by the accidental ignition fumes from a bottle of household cleaner. One person died.
August 31 – LAPA Boeing 737 overshoots the runway in Buenos Aires, Argentina and crashes into a golf course. Of the 103 people on board, 64 are killed as well as ten on the ground.
September
September 4-September 12 - the 11th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Ravenna, Italy. Individual winners: 1st Krzysztof Wieczorek & Wacław Wieczorek (Poland), 2nd Janusz Darocha & Zbigniew Chrząszcz (Poland), 3rd Nigel Hopkins & Dale de Klerk (South Africa); team winners: 1st Poland, 2nd Czech Republic, 3rd France.
September 23 – Qantas Flight 1, a Boeing 747, overshoots the runway upon landing in Bangkok, Thailand. None of the 410 people on board were seriously injured.
October
October 25 - Crash in South Dakota of a Learjet 35 killing professional golfer and 1999 U.S. Open winner Payne Stewart and five others.
October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, a Boeing 767 on its way Cairo, Egypt, was deliberately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts by the co-pilot as a way of committing suicide. All 217 passengers and crew members on board were killed.
November
November 9 – TAESA Flight 725, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes near Uruapan, Mexico killing all 18 on board.
December
December 11 – A SATA International British Aerospace APT crashed on São Jorge Island in the Azores. All 35 people on board were killed.
December 21 – A Cubana de Aviacon McDonnell Douglas DC-10 overshot the runway in Guatemala City, Guatemala and crashes into homes. Of the 314 people on board, 16 die as well as two people in the homes.
December 24 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked en route to Delhi, India. After stopovers in Lahore and Dubai, it landed in Kandhar (Afghanistan), where after several days of negotiations, all the hostages were released in exchange for the release of three senior Islamic fighters held by India.
December 25 – A Cubana de Aviacon Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into a mountain near Bejuma, Venezuela killing all 22 on board.
December 31 - Fear of the Y2K computer bug and possible in-flight consequences for those planes flying during the night of December 31, 1999 and the early morning of January 1, 2000, spreads around the airline industry.
First flights
February
February 8 - Tupolev Tu-334
March
March 1-19 - Hot air balloon Breitling Orbiter 3, with pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, begins the first non-stop, round the world balloon flight. This sets a new distance record for any type of aircraft of 40,804 kilometers (25,360hkgh miles).
July
July 28 - Rotary Rocket Roton ATV
1998 in aviation
Events
Cirrus Aircraft successfully flight-tests the CAPS ballistic emergency aircraft parachute.
Adam Aircraft Industries founded
Eclipse Aviation founded
January
January 13 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Antonov An-12 crashed near Tor Kach, Pakistan after it ran out of fuel in poor weather. All 51 people on board died.
January 27 – A Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed while taking off from Yangon, Myanmar killing 16 of the 45 people on board.
February
February 2 – Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into a mountain near Pagalungan in the Philippines. All of the 104 passengers and crew members were killed.
February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676, an Airbus A300, crashed into a residential area while attempting to land in Taipei, Taiwan. All 196 people on board were killed, in addition to seven on the ground.
March
March 19 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 hit a mountain near Charasyab, Afghanistan while descending to land. All 45 on board died.
March 22 – Philippine Airlines Flight 137, an Airbus A320, overshot the end of the runway while landing at Bacolod City in the Philippines, plowing through several houses. None of the passenger were harmed, but three people on the ground were killed, and several more injured.
April
April 20 – Air France Flight 422, a Boeing 727, crashed into a mountain near Bogotá, Colombia, while attempting to land, killing all 53 people on board.
May
May 26 – An MIAT Mongolian Airlines Antonov An-24 crashed into a mountain near Erdenet, Mongolia. All 28 people on board died.
June
June 1 - MetroJet, operated by US Airways, began operations.
July
July 1 - JAL Express, operated by Japan Airlines, commenced operations.
July 6 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport was closed at 1:28am with the lights of its 13/31 runway being switched off. Operation of the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok commenced on the same day, with the first commercial flight landing at 6:25am.
August
August 21 - an Insitu Aerosonde named Laima becomes the first UAV to cross the Atlantic Ocean, completing the flight in 26 hours.
August 21 – A Lumbini Airways de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in a mountainous region near Ghorepani, Nepal. All of the 18 people on board were killed.
August 24 – A Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed in Manibagi, Myanmar during poor weather. All 44 people on board were killed. It has also been reported that there may have been survivors that were tortured to death by local villagers that thought the aircraft carried military personnel.
August 29 – A Cubana de Aviación Tupolev Tu-154 crashed during takeoff into buildings in Quito, Ecuador. Seventy-five of the 90 people on board died as well as 10 on the ground.
September
September 2 – Swissair Flight 111, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, crashed into the sea near Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada, due to smoke in the cockpit caused by insulation burning in the shell. All 229 people on board perished.
September 2 – A Permaviatrans Antonov An-26 was shot down by UNITA rebels over Angola. All 24 people on board were killed.
September 25 – A Paukn Air BAe 146 crashed near Nador, Morocco killing all 38 people on board.
September 29 – A Lion Air Antonov An-2 was shot down by LTTE rebels and crashed into the sea off Mannar, Sri Lanka. All 55 people on board were killed.
October
October 10 – A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 was shot down by Tutsi rebels near Kindu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All 41 on board died.
December
December 10 - Captain Michael VandenBos of the Snowbirds aerobatic team dies in a midair collision between two CT-114 Tutors during training near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
December 11 – Thai Airways Flight 261, an Airbus A-310, crashed during poor weather near Surat Thani, Thailand. Of the 146 people on board, 102 were killed.
First flights
January
AEA Explorer
February
February 28 - Ryan (now Northrop Grumman) RQ-4 Global Hawk
March
March 6 - Bell Eagle Eye scaled prototype tiltrotor UAV.
March 12 - X-38 Crew Return Vehicle atmospheric test prototype
July
July 26 - Scaled Composites Proteus
Cirrus Aircraft successfully flight-tests the CAPS ballistic emergency aircraft parachute.
Adam Aircraft Industries founded
Eclipse Aviation founded
January
January 13 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Antonov An-12 crashed near Tor Kach, Pakistan after it ran out of fuel in poor weather. All 51 people on board died.
January 27 – A Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed while taking off from Yangon, Myanmar killing 16 of the 45 people on board.
February
February 2 – Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into a mountain near Pagalungan in the Philippines. All of the 104 passengers and crew members were killed.
February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676, an Airbus A300, crashed into a residential area while attempting to land in Taipei, Taiwan. All 196 people on board were killed, in addition to seven on the ground.
March
March 19 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 hit a mountain near Charasyab, Afghanistan while descending to land. All 45 on board died.
March 22 – Philippine Airlines Flight 137, an Airbus A320, overshot the end of the runway while landing at Bacolod City in the Philippines, plowing through several houses. None of the passenger were harmed, but three people on the ground were killed, and several more injured.
April
April 20 – Air France Flight 422, a Boeing 727, crashed into a mountain near Bogotá, Colombia, while attempting to land, killing all 53 people on board.
May
May 26 – An MIAT Mongolian Airlines Antonov An-24 crashed into a mountain near Erdenet, Mongolia. All 28 people on board died.
June
June 1 - MetroJet, operated by US Airways, began operations.
July
July 1 - JAL Express, operated by Japan Airlines, commenced operations.
July 6 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport was closed at 1:28am with the lights of its 13/31 runway being switched off. Operation of the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok commenced on the same day, with the first commercial flight landing at 6:25am.
August
August 21 - an Insitu Aerosonde named Laima becomes the first UAV to cross the Atlantic Ocean, completing the flight in 26 hours.
August 21 – A Lumbini Airways de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in a mountainous region near Ghorepani, Nepal. All of the 18 people on board were killed.
August 24 – A Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed in Manibagi, Myanmar during poor weather. All 44 people on board were killed. It has also been reported that there may have been survivors that were tortured to death by local villagers that thought the aircraft carried military personnel.
August 29 – A Cubana de Aviación Tupolev Tu-154 crashed during takeoff into buildings in Quito, Ecuador. Seventy-five of the 90 people on board died as well as 10 on the ground.
September
September 2 – Swissair Flight 111, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, crashed into the sea near Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada, due to smoke in the cockpit caused by insulation burning in the shell. All 229 people on board perished.
September 2 – A Permaviatrans Antonov An-26 was shot down by UNITA rebels over Angola. All 24 people on board were killed.
September 25 – A Paukn Air BAe 146 crashed near Nador, Morocco killing all 38 people on board.
September 29 – A Lion Air Antonov An-2 was shot down by LTTE rebels and crashed into the sea off Mannar, Sri Lanka. All 55 people on board were killed.
October
October 10 – A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 was shot down by Tutsi rebels near Kindu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All 41 on board died.
December
December 10 - Captain Michael VandenBos of the Snowbirds aerobatic team dies in a midair collision between two CT-114 Tutors during training near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
December 11 – Thai Airways Flight 261, an Airbus A-310, crashed during poor weather near Surat Thani, Thailand. Of the 146 people on board, 102 were killed.
First flights
January
AEA Explorer
February
February 28 - Ryan (now Northrop Grumman) RQ-4 Global Hawk
March
March 6 - Bell Eagle Eye scaled prototype tiltrotor UAV.
March 12 - X-38 Crew Return Vehicle atmospheric test prototype
July
July 26 - Scaled Composites Proteus
1997 in aviation
Events
British Airways adopts a new livery which consists of a revised logo and around 20 different ethnic tailfins featuring art and designs representing many countries around the world.
March
Air Comet began airline operations.
March 17–May 28 Linda Finch, pilot, aviation historian, and San Antonio, Texas businesswoman, flying a restored and specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed L-10 Electra, recreates the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight to circumnavigate the globe solo. Her attempt was successful, taking 73 days. She touched down in Oakland, California.
August
August 1 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete merger forming The Boeing Company.
August 6 - Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in Guam on landing approach. Killing 228 people.
September
September 8 - The Boeing 777-300 is rolled out. At 73 metres (242 feet) it is the longest airliner ever built. This title will be claimed by the Airbus A340-600 in 2001.
September 15 - September 21 - World Air Games in Turkey (among others, consisting of 10th FAI World Rally Flying Championship)
September 26 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes in Medan, Indonesia. Killing all 234 passengers and crew.
November
November 17 - ValuJet Airlines terminated operations after merging to AirTran Airways.
First flights
August
August 22 - AASI Jetcruzer 500
October 16 - Boeing 777-300
British Airways adopts a new livery which consists of a revised logo and around 20 different ethnic tailfins featuring art and designs representing many countries around the world.
March
Air Comet began airline operations.
March 17–May 28 Linda Finch, pilot, aviation historian, and San Antonio, Texas businesswoman, flying a restored and specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed L-10 Electra, recreates the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight to circumnavigate the globe solo. Her attempt was successful, taking 73 days. She touched down in Oakland, California.
August
August 1 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete merger forming The Boeing Company.
August 6 - Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in Guam on landing approach. Killing 228 people.
September
September 8 - The Boeing 777-300 is rolled out. At 73 metres (242 feet) it is the longest airliner ever built. This title will be claimed by the Airbus A340-600 in 2001.
September 15 - September 21 - World Air Games in Turkey (among others, consisting of 10th FAI World Rally Flying Championship)
September 26 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes in Medan, Indonesia. Killing all 234 passengers and crew.
November
November 17 - ValuJet Airlines terminated operations after merging to AirTran Airways.
First flights
August
August 22 - AASI Jetcruzer 500
October 16 - Boeing 777-300
1996 in aviation
February
February 6 - Turkish charter company Birgenair Flight 301 crashes in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic after takeoff. 189 people died.
February 29 - WestJet, a canadian airline, began operations.
the T-6 Texan II is selected as the new primary trainer for the United States armed forces.
Hildegarde Ferrera becomes the oldest person to parachute out of a plane, at 99 years old.
March
March 15 - The Fokker aircraft manufacturer is declared bankrupt.
March 21 - Tupolev and NASA begin joint research into civil supersonic transports using a refurbished Tupolev Tu-144
April
April 12 - Seven year old pilot Jessica Dubroff dies during attempt to set record as the youngest person to fly across the United States.
May
May 11 - Valujet Flight 592 crashes in the Florida Everglades.
June
June 9 - the Swedish Air Force opens a new pilot training centre at Såtenäs
July
July 13 - A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3.
July 17 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 people aboard, explodes off the coast of New York.
August
August 29 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashes into a mountain on Spitsbergen killing 141 people.
October
October 8 - three B-2 Spirits destroy 16 targets with 16 smart bombs at the Nellis AFB range.
November
November 12 - A Saudi Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin IL-76, killing 349 people.
November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crashes in Comoros after it got hijacked on air, killing 125 people.
December
December 15 - the merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing is announced
December 24 - The 1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash which led to a 3-year search for the missing aircraft, and legislation requiring stricter ELT standards.
First flights
Boeing Bird of Prey
January
January 4 - RAH-66 Comanche
February
February 29 - Cessna Citation Excel
March
March 16 - MiG/MAPO MiG-AT
March 21 - Tupolev TU-214
March 29 - RQ-3 Dark Star
April
April 4 - Extra 400
April 5 - Lockheed C-130J
April 25 - Yakovlev Yak/AEM-130
May
May 1 - NASA ERAST ALTUS II
May 22 - Airbus A319
June
June 19 - Scaled Composites Boomerang
August
August 6 - Kawasaki OH-1
September
September 30 - Aero L-59 Super Albatros
October
Kawada Robocopter
October 29 - PZL SW-4 helicopter
November
November 29 - Tupolev TU-144LL
Entered service
June
Saab JAS-39A Gripen
Retirements
May
May 30 - Mirage IV-P Bombers of the Armée de l'Air are retired.
July
July 27 - the final General Dynamics F-111F attack aircraft are withdrawn from USAF service; on its retirement, the aircraft finally receives an official popular name: "Aardvark."
October
October 17 - The last airworthy Vickers Vanguard, G-APEP, makes the type's last flight.
December
December 19 - The US Navy retires it's Grumman A-6 Intruders.
February 6 - Turkish charter company Birgenair Flight 301 crashes in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic after takeoff. 189 people died.
February 29 - WestJet, a canadian airline, began operations.
the T-6 Texan II is selected as the new primary trainer for the United States armed forces.
Hildegarde Ferrera becomes the oldest person to parachute out of a plane, at 99 years old.
March
March 15 - The Fokker aircraft manufacturer is declared bankrupt.
March 21 - Tupolev and NASA begin joint research into civil supersonic transports using a refurbished Tupolev Tu-144
April
April 12 - Seven year old pilot Jessica Dubroff dies during attempt to set record as the youngest person to fly across the United States.
May
May 11 - Valujet Flight 592 crashes in the Florida Everglades.
June
June 9 - the Swedish Air Force opens a new pilot training centre at Såtenäs
July
July 13 - A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3.
July 17 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 people aboard, explodes off the coast of New York.
August
August 29 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashes into a mountain on Spitsbergen killing 141 people.
October
October 8 - three B-2 Spirits destroy 16 targets with 16 smart bombs at the Nellis AFB range.
November
November 12 - A Saudi Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin IL-76, killing 349 people.
November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crashes in Comoros after it got hijacked on air, killing 125 people.
December
December 15 - the merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing is announced
December 24 - The 1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash which led to a 3-year search for the missing aircraft, and legislation requiring stricter ELT standards.
First flights
Boeing Bird of Prey
January
January 4 - RAH-66 Comanche
February
February 29 - Cessna Citation Excel
March
March 16 - MiG/MAPO MiG-AT
March 21 - Tupolev TU-214
March 29 - RQ-3 Dark Star
April
April 4 - Extra 400
April 5 - Lockheed C-130J
April 25 - Yakovlev Yak/AEM-130
May
May 1 - NASA ERAST ALTUS II
May 22 - Airbus A319
June
June 19 - Scaled Composites Boomerang
August
August 6 - Kawasaki OH-1
September
September 30 - Aero L-59 Super Albatros
October
Kawada Robocopter
October 29 - PZL SW-4 helicopter
November
November 29 - Tupolev TU-144LL
Entered service
June
Saab JAS-39A Gripen
Retirements
May
May 30 - Mirage IV-P Bombers of the Armée de l'Air are retired.
July
July 27 - the final General Dynamics F-111F attack aircraft are withdrawn from USAF service; on its retirement, the aircraft finally receives an official popular name: "Aardvark."
October
October 17 - The last airworthy Vickers Vanguard, G-APEP, makes the type's last flight.
December
December 19 - The US Navy retires it's Grumman A-6 Intruders.
1995 in aviation
January
January 26 - Outbreak of the Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian Mil Mi-8 and Mil Mi-25, as well as Ecuadorian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters begin ground attack operations.
February
February 9-12 - Heavy fighting continues between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian and Ecuadorian air forces step up their activities.
February 10 - Two Peruvian Sukhoi Su-22Ms are shot down by a pair of Ecuadorian Mirage F.1JAs. Almost simultaneously, a Peruvian Cessna A-37B is also shot down by an Ecuadorian Kfir C.2.
February 10 - the prototype Antonov An-70 is destroyed after a mid-air collision with an An-72 chase plane. All seven aboard are killed in the crash.
February 13 - $US 5 million in damage is caused when a violent thunderstorm hits Miami International Airport. Four airliners and nine airbridges are seriously damaged.
March
March 14 - an Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashes near Baku after running out of fuel. Crew negligence is blamed, and it is suggested that the flight crew were drunk.
April
April 4 - Russian Air Force warplanes are deployed to support the mobilisation of troops into Chechnia
May
May 16 - a Royal Air Force BAe Nimrod is forced to ditch in Moray Firth
May 25 - a combined force of NATO aircraft attack a Serb ammunition depot near Jahorinski Potok
May 28 - Serb forces shoot down a Mil Mi-8 carrying the Bosnian foreign minister and a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon
August
August 16 - A Concorde sets a new speed record for a round-the-world flight. It returns to JFK International Airport in New York after a journey lasting 31 hours 27 minutes, passing through Toulouse, Dubai, Bangkok, Guam, Honolulu and Acapulco. [1]
August 30 - Operation Deliberate Force is launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb forces. Two hundred sorties are flown during the first 24 hours, including the first combat missions flown by the Luftwaffe since World War II. Raids continued until September 14.
November
November 17 - Rollout of the first HAL Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) technology demonstrator, TD-1.
December
December 20 - American Airlines Boeing 757 crashes on a mountainside near Cali, Colombia minutes before landing approach. 159 people died.
First flights
Cirrus SR20
March
March 31 - Grob Strato 2C
June
June 9 - Eurocopter Colibri
August
August 17 - Embraer ERJ 145 family
August 25 - Airbus A319
September
September 18 - Lambach HL II
October
October 7 - Learjet 45
November
November 2 - Fokker F60
November 28 - Gulfstream V
December
December 1 - Air Tractor AT-602
December 18 - NHI NH90
Entered service
June
June 17 - Boeing 777 with United Airlines
January 26 - Outbreak of the Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian Mil Mi-8 and Mil Mi-25, as well as Ecuadorian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters begin ground attack operations.
February
February 9-12 - Heavy fighting continues between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian and Ecuadorian air forces step up their activities.
February 10 - Two Peruvian Sukhoi Su-22Ms are shot down by a pair of Ecuadorian Mirage F.1JAs. Almost simultaneously, a Peruvian Cessna A-37B is also shot down by an Ecuadorian Kfir C.2.
February 10 - the prototype Antonov An-70 is destroyed after a mid-air collision with an An-72 chase plane. All seven aboard are killed in the crash.
February 13 - $US 5 million in damage is caused when a violent thunderstorm hits Miami International Airport. Four airliners and nine airbridges are seriously damaged.
March
March 14 - an Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashes near Baku after running out of fuel. Crew negligence is blamed, and it is suggested that the flight crew were drunk.
April
April 4 - Russian Air Force warplanes are deployed to support the mobilisation of troops into Chechnia
May
May 16 - a Royal Air Force BAe Nimrod is forced to ditch in Moray Firth
May 25 - a combined force of NATO aircraft attack a Serb ammunition depot near Jahorinski Potok
May 28 - Serb forces shoot down a Mil Mi-8 carrying the Bosnian foreign minister and a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon
August
August 16 - A Concorde sets a new speed record for a round-the-world flight. It returns to JFK International Airport in New York after a journey lasting 31 hours 27 minutes, passing through Toulouse, Dubai, Bangkok, Guam, Honolulu and Acapulco. [1]
August 30 - Operation Deliberate Force is launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb forces. Two hundred sorties are flown during the first 24 hours, including the first combat missions flown by the Luftwaffe since World War II. Raids continued until September 14.
November
November 17 - Rollout of the first HAL Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) technology demonstrator, TD-1.
December
December 20 - American Airlines Boeing 757 crashes on a mountainside near Cali, Colombia minutes before landing approach. 159 people died.
First flights
Cirrus SR20
March
March 31 - Grob Strato 2C
June
June 9 - Eurocopter Colibri
August
August 17 - Embraer ERJ 145 family
August 25 - Airbus A319
September
September 18 - Lambach HL II
October
October 7 - Learjet 45
November
November 2 - Fokker F60
November 28 - Gulfstream V
December
December 1 - Air Tractor AT-602
December 18 - NHI NH90
Entered service
June
June 17 - Boeing 777 with United Airlines
1994 in aviation
April
April 14 - USAF F-15 Eagles shoot down two US Army UH-60 Blackhawks over Iraq, mis-identifying them as Iraqi Mil Mi-25s
April 16 - a Royal Navy Sea Harrier is shot down over Serbia by a SA-7 Grail. The pilot was later rescued
June
June 9 - an Antonov An-124 carries a 109-tonne diesel locomotive from Ontario to Dublin
July
July 12 - a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th United Nations relief flight into Sarajevo
August
Flt Lt Jo Salter is posted to No. 617 Squadron RAF (Tornado GR1Bs), the RAF's first female fast jet pilot
August 5 - USAF A-10 Thunderbolt IIs attack and destroy a Serbian anti-tank gun
August 30 - Lockheed and Martin Marietta announce their intention to merge. They will form Lockheed-Martin the following year.
September
September 8 - USAir (now US Airways) flight 427 crashes into a hillside near Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania killing all 132 people aboard.
September 22 - two RAF SEPECAT Jaguars and a USAF A-10 attack and destroy a Serbian T-55 tank
October
October 1 - United Airlines created a new airline named Shuttle by United.
First flights
February
February 15 - Eurocopter EC 135
March
March 27 - Eurofighter Typhoon
June
June 12 - Boeing 777
September
September 13 - Airbus Beluga
October
October 25 - Bell 430
December
December 16 - Antonov An-70
Entered service
December - Tupolev Tu-204
April 14 - USAF F-15 Eagles shoot down two US Army UH-60 Blackhawks over Iraq, mis-identifying them as Iraqi Mil Mi-25s
April 16 - a Royal Navy Sea Harrier is shot down over Serbia by a SA-7 Grail. The pilot was later rescued
June
June 9 - an Antonov An-124 carries a 109-tonne diesel locomotive from Ontario to Dublin
July
July 12 - a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th United Nations relief flight into Sarajevo
August
Flt Lt Jo Salter is posted to No. 617 Squadron RAF (Tornado GR1Bs), the RAF's first female fast jet pilot
August 5 - USAF A-10 Thunderbolt IIs attack and destroy a Serbian anti-tank gun
August 30 - Lockheed and Martin Marietta announce their intention to merge. They will form Lockheed-Martin the following year.
September
September 8 - USAir (now US Airways) flight 427 crashes into a hillside near Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania killing all 132 people aboard.
September 22 - two RAF SEPECAT Jaguars and a USAF A-10 attack and destroy a Serbian T-55 tank
October
October 1 - United Airlines created a new airline named Shuttle by United.
First flights
February
February 15 - Eurocopter EC 135
March
March 27 - Eurofighter Typhoon
June
June 12 - Boeing 777
September
September 13 - Airbus Beluga
October
October 25 - Bell 430
December
December 16 - Antonov An-70
Entered service
December - Tupolev Tu-204
1993 in aviation
Events
The 1,000th Boeing 747 comes off the production line 26 years after the first 747 was built.
February
the last F-86 Sabre (a Bolivian Air Force machine) is withdrawn from service amongst the world's air forces
February 10 - McDonnell Douglas produces its 10,000th aircraft
February 27 - The USAF begins supply drops into Bosnia
March
General Dynamics sells the rights to the F-16 Fighting Falcon to Lockheed
March 15 - Iranian Air Force bombers attack a hospital in Raniya, Iraq.
March 24 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.
April
April 1 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reviews 70 Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
April 9 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery
April 18 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi radar station
May
May 5 - Jet Airways began airline operations.
August
Chicago Express began operations.
August 11 -14 - two B-1 Lancers complete a round-the-world trip in 47 hours.
August 19 - USAF aircraft are attacked by Surface-to-air missiles over northern Iraq. The launch site is destroyed in retaliation
August 23 - the Russian Air Force flies open skies missions over Luftwaffe bases
September
September 17 - the F/A-18 Hornet logs its 2 millionth flying hour - achieved in only ten years of operations.
October
October 26 - ValuJet Airlines started operations.
First flights
March
March 11 - Airbus A321
April
April 2 - Fokker F70
July
July 10 - Bell Eagle Eye
December
December 18 - Sukhoi Su-34
December 21 - Cessna Citation X
Entered service
July
July 14 - C-17 Globemaster III
The 1,000th Boeing 747 comes off the production line 26 years after the first 747 was built.
February
the last F-86 Sabre (a Bolivian Air Force machine) is withdrawn from service amongst the world's air forces
February 10 - McDonnell Douglas produces its 10,000th aircraft
February 27 - The USAF begins supply drops into Bosnia
March
General Dynamics sells the rights to the F-16 Fighting Falcon to Lockheed
March 15 - Iranian Air Force bombers attack a hospital in Raniya, Iraq.
March 24 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.
April
April 1 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reviews 70 Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
April 9 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery
April 18 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi radar station
May
May 5 - Jet Airways began airline operations.
August
Chicago Express began operations.
August 11 -14 - two B-1 Lancers complete a round-the-world trip in 47 hours.
August 19 - USAF aircraft are attacked by Surface-to-air missiles over northern Iraq. The launch site is destroyed in retaliation
August 23 - the Russian Air Force flies open skies missions over Luftwaffe bases
September
September 17 - the F/A-18 Hornet logs its 2 millionth flying hour - achieved in only ten years of operations.
October
October 26 - ValuJet Airlines started operations.
First flights
March
March 11 - Airbus A321
April
April 2 - Fokker F70
July
July 10 - Bell Eagle Eye
December
December 18 - Sukhoi Su-34
December 21 - Cessna Citation X
Entered service
July
July 14 - C-17 Globemaster III
1992 in aviation
Events
The European Commission approves three new regulations to liberalize air travel within the European Union. EU airlines are gradually given unlimited rights to serve airports in other member states, with the final round of reforms complete by April 1997.
The Operations of Australia's two government airlines, Australian Airlines and Qantas are merged in preparations for Qantas's privatisation, which will happen in 1995. Australian Airlines ceases to exist as a separate airline until 2002, when it re-emerges as a low-cost airline flying to destinations in South-East Asia.
NASA initiates the Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) program to develop technology to help revitalize the slumping general aviation industry.
January
January 10 - TWA files for bankruptcy
January 11 - the US FAA approves a helicopter rating for a pilot based solely on flight simulator performance for the first time.
January 15 - the USAF loses a Lockheed U-2 in the Sea of Japan
January 18 - the United States armed forces retire the last F-4 Phantom II from front-line service
March
Two USAF B-52 Stratofortresses visit a Russian Air Force base near Moscow - the first visit by US military aircraft to the former Soviet Union.
March 24 - The United States Department of Transportation announces that it will sign open skies treaties with any states that wish to reciprocate. The first open skies treaty is signed between the U.S. and the Netherlands later in the year.
April
April 7 - Azerbaijan Airlines were established.
April 22 - the YF-22 prototype is damaged beyond repair
April 24 - a USAF C-130 Hercules carrying out an anti-narcotics mission over Peru is attacked by Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s.
May
S7 Airlines started operations.
Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95s visit Barksdale AFB in the United States
May 8 - excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes supposedly buried there in 1919 - the first two aircraft built by that company. The search proves fruitless.
May 16 - the 2,000th C-130 Hercules rolls off the production line.
July
July 6 - the final F-4 Phantom IIs are retired from Royal Air Force service.
October
October 4 - El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 cargo freighter, crashes in Bijlmer neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands after take off. Killing 47 people.
October 16 - Flt Lt Nicky Smith, graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF's first female helicopter pilot, October 16.
December
December 27 - USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons shoot down an Iraqi Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in Southern Iraq's "no fly zone"
First flights
March
March 26 - Saab 2000
April
Sikorsky Cypher
July
July 8 - Bede BD-10
August
August 20 - HAL Dhruv
November
November 2 - Airbus A330
December
December 18 - McDonnell Douglas MD-90
The European Commission approves three new regulations to liberalize air travel within the European Union. EU airlines are gradually given unlimited rights to serve airports in other member states, with the final round of reforms complete by April 1997.
The Operations of Australia's two government airlines, Australian Airlines and Qantas are merged in preparations for Qantas's privatisation, which will happen in 1995. Australian Airlines ceases to exist as a separate airline until 2002, when it re-emerges as a low-cost airline flying to destinations in South-East Asia.
NASA initiates the Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) program to develop technology to help revitalize the slumping general aviation industry.
January
January 10 - TWA files for bankruptcy
January 11 - the US FAA approves a helicopter rating for a pilot based solely on flight simulator performance for the first time.
January 15 - the USAF loses a Lockheed U-2 in the Sea of Japan
January 18 - the United States armed forces retire the last F-4 Phantom II from front-line service
March
Two USAF B-52 Stratofortresses visit a Russian Air Force base near Moscow - the first visit by US military aircraft to the former Soviet Union.
March 24 - The United States Department of Transportation announces that it will sign open skies treaties with any states that wish to reciprocate. The first open skies treaty is signed between the U.S. and the Netherlands later in the year.
April
April 7 - Azerbaijan Airlines were established.
April 22 - the YF-22 prototype is damaged beyond repair
April 24 - a USAF C-130 Hercules carrying out an anti-narcotics mission over Peru is attacked by Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s.
May
S7 Airlines started operations.
Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95s visit Barksdale AFB in the United States
May 8 - excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes supposedly buried there in 1919 - the first two aircraft built by that company. The search proves fruitless.
May 16 - the 2,000th C-130 Hercules rolls off the production line.
July
July 6 - the final F-4 Phantom IIs are retired from Royal Air Force service.
October
October 4 - El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 cargo freighter, crashes in Bijlmer neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands after take off. Killing 47 people.
October 16 - Flt Lt Nicky Smith, graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF's first female helicopter pilot, October 16.
December
December 27 - USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons shoot down an Iraqi Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in Southern Iraq's "no fly zone"
First flights
March
March 26 - Saab 2000
April
Sikorsky Cypher
July
July 8 - Bede BD-10
August
August 20 - HAL Dhruv
November
November 2 - Airbus A330
December
December 18 - McDonnell Douglas MD-90
1991 in aviation
January
January 16 - Eastern Air Lines is dissolved after 64 years of operation. Many of its remaining assets are parceled out to American and Continental.
January 17 - US-led forces attack Iraq in a massive air assault after a United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait passes unheeded.
February
February 1 USAir (now US Airways) Boeing 737 collides with Fairchild Metro III on a runway in Los Angeles International Airport. Thirty-four were killed.
February 28 - The US calls a ceasefire in Iraq, with airpower having neutralized practically all of the country's ability to make war.
April
KLM Cityhopper commenced operations after NLM CityHopper and Netherlines merged to create the airline.
May
May 26 - Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes in Uthai Thani province, Thailand minutes after takeoff from Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. 223 people died.
June
June 17 - Alaska Airlines commences services to the Soviet Union
July
July 8 - a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet is forced to shoot down an E-2 Hawkeye after its crew abandons it following an engine fire
October
October 29 - a Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 707-368C Registered A20-103 conducting an asymmetric flight demonstration crashes into the Pacific Ocean 43Km South of East Sale, Victoria, Australia
December
December 4 - Pan Am, bankrupt since August 11, is finally dissolved after 64 years of operation.
First flights
February
February 13 - Swearingen SJ-30
April
April 27 - Eurocopter Tiger
April 29 - Cessna CitationJet
May
May 10 - Canadair Regional Jet
May 31 - Pilatus PC-12
June
June 18 - BAe RJ70
September
September 15 - C-17 Globemaster III
October
October 25 - Airbus A340
January 16 - Eastern Air Lines is dissolved after 64 years of operation. Many of its remaining assets are parceled out to American and Continental.
January 17 - US-led forces attack Iraq in a massive air assault after a United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait passes unheeded.
February
February 1 USAir (now US Airways) Boeing 737 collides with Fairchild Metro III on a runway in Los Angeles International Airport. Thirty-four were killed.
February 28 - The US calls a ceasefire in Iraq, with airpower having neutralized practically all of the country's ability to make war.
April
KLM Cityhopper commenced operations after NLM CityHopper and Netherlines merged to create the airline.
May
May 26 - Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes in Uthai Thani province, Thailand minutes after takeoff from Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. 223 people died.
June
June 17 - Alaska Airlines commences services to the Soviet Union
July
July 8 - a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet is forced to shoot down an E-2 Hawkeye after its crew abandons it following an engine fire
October
October 29 - a Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 707-368C Registered A20-103 conducting an asymmetric flight demonstration crashes into the Pacific Ocean 43Km South of East Sale, Victoria, Australia
December
December 4 - Pan Am, bankrupt since August 11, is finally dissolved after 64 years of operation.
First flights
February
February 13 - Swearingen SJ-30
April
April 27 - Eurocopter Tiger
April 29 - Cessna CitationJet
May
May 10 - Canadair Regional Jet
May 31 - Pilatus PC-12
June
June 18 - BAe RJ70
September
September 15 - C-17 Globemaster III
October
October 25 - Airbus A340
1990 in aviation
Events
Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines, both in financial difficulty, transfer their coveted landing rights at London Heathrow Airport to American Airlines and United Airlines.
January
January 11 - The US Defense Department awards Bell Helicopter a $US 123 million development contract for the V-22 Osprey
January 20 - North American Airlines began operations.
January 26 - The first of two new Air Force Ones, VIP variants of the Boeing 747-200, for the use of the United States President and his staff, are delivered.
April
April 21 - Aeritalia joins the Airbus consortium as a partner
June
June 22 - Bombardier purchases Learjet for $US 75.85 million
September
September 27 - United Air Lines is the first airline to introduce satellite communications for its aircraft
October
October 2 - Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737 collides with China Southern Airlines Boeing 757 in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou, China. 128 people killed.
October 31 - the Australian airline industry is deregulated. Airlines are allowed to select their own routes and set their own fares.
December
December 7 - an Alaskan Airlines Boeing 727 takes off from Seattle International Airport in visibility of only 500 ft (152 m), the lowest for any airliner takeoff in the US.
December 19 - Northwest Airlines buys a 25% share in Hawaiian Airlines
December 21 - Kelly Johnson dies, aged 80.
First flights
January
January 10 - McDonnell Douglas MD-11 - Freighter Version
January 15 - Atlas XH-2
February
February 19 - Scaled Composites ARES
March
March 29 - Ilyushin Il-114
April
April 13 - Sukhoi Su-27IB prototype
May
May 1 - McDonnell Douglas MD 520N
August
August 1 - EMBRAER/FMA CBA-123
August 27 - Northrop YF-23
September
September 29 - YF-22 Raptor
October
October 10 - Learjet 60
October 11 - Rockwell/MBB X-31
November
November 21 - K-8 Karakorum (Hongdu JL-8)
Entered service
October
October 4 - deliveries of Piaggio Avanti to various operators commence
Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines, both in financial difficulty, transfer their coveted landing rights at London Heathrow Airport to American Airlines and United Airlines.
January
January 11 - The US Defense Department awards Bell Helicopter a $US 123 million development contract for the V-22 Osprey
January 20 - North American Airlines began operations.
January 26 - The first of two new Air Force Ones, VIP variants of the Boeing 747-200, for the use of the United States President and his staff, are delivered.
April
April 21 - Aeritalia joins the Airbus consortium as a partner
June
June 22 - Bombardier purchases Learjet for $US 75.85 million
September
September 27 - United Air Lines is the first airline to introduce satellite communications for its aircraft
October
October 2 - Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737 collides with China Southern Airlines Boeing 757 in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou, China. 128 people killed.
October 31 - the Australian airline industry is deregulated. Airlines are allowed to select their own routes and set their own fares.
December
December 7 - an Alaskan Airlines Boeing 727 takes off from Seattle International Airport in visibility of only 500 ft (152 m), the lowest for any airliner takeoff in the US.
December 19 - Northwest Airlines buys a 25% share in Hawaiian Airlines
December 21 - Kelly Johnson dies, aged 80.
First flights
January
January 10 - McDonnell Douglas MD-11 - Freighter Version
January 15 - Atlas XH-2
February
February 19 - Scaled Composites ARES
March
March 29 - Ilyushin Il-114
April
April 13 - Sukhoi Su-27IB prototype
May
May 1 - McDonnell Douglas MD 520N
August
August 1 - EMBRAER/FMA CBA-123
August 27 - Northrop YF-23
September
September 29 - YF-22 Raptor
October
October 10 - Learjet 60
October 11 - Rockwell/MBB X-31
November
November 21 - K-8 Karakorum (Hongdu JL-8)
Entered service
October
October 4 - deliveries of Piaggio Avanti to various operators commence
1989 in aviation
January
January 4 - US Navy F-14 Tomcats shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s
January 8 - a British Midland Boeing 737-400 crashes on the M1 motorway near Kegworth, killing 32 people.
February
February 8 - a misunderstanding between the crew of a Boeing 707 and Air traffic control leads to a crash on Pico Alto mountain on the Azores
February 24 - a piece of fuselage detaches from a United Airlines Flight 811 over Hawaii. 9 people are sucked to their deaths.
March
March 22 - an Antonov An-225 sets a total of 106 world and class records during a 3 hour 30 minute flight carrying a Buran orbiter. Its total weight at take-off was 508,200 kg (1,129,370 lb)
April
April 12 - a British Airways Concorde loses a large piece of its rudder on a flight between Christchurch and Sydney
April 21 - Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7974, Item 2025, outbound on operational sortie from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, suffers engine explosion, total hydraulic failure. Pilot Maj. Dan E. House and RSO Capt. Blair L. Bozek both eject safely. This was the final Blackbird loss before the type was withdrawn from service.
June
June 7 - a Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
June 8 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 suffers a birdstrike during a display at the Paris Air Show. Pilot Anatoli Kvochur manages to prevent the plane from injuring anyone, and saves himself by ejecting at only 400 feet.
July
July 4 - Crash of an unmanned MiG-23 in Kortrijk, Belgium. The pilot had believed he was experiencing an engine failure shortly after take-off from the Soviet airbase near Kolobzreg, Poland and had ejected, while the aircraft continued on autopilot for 900 km, until running out of fuel. One 18-year-old man on the ground was killed in the crash.[2]
July 16 - European air traffic is halted due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers.
July 19 - A United Airlines DC-10 crashes on landing following a decompression in the number 2 engine. 111 people were killed.
August
August 5 - Piedmont is merged into USAir.
August 18 - a Qantas Boeing 747, the Spirit of Australia, flies non-stop from London to Sydney, setting a world record for a four engine jet, after having flown 11,000 miles in 20 hours.
August 21 - Rare Bear sets a new piston-powered speed record of 528.33mph
August 22 - Alexander Yakovlev dies, aged 84
September
September 3 - a Varig Boeing 737 crashes in Brazil killing 53 passengers. The pilots had not noticed an autopilot malfunction because they were listening to a football match.
September 8 - a chartered Partnair flight crashes into the sea off the coast of Denmark killing 55 people.
September 20 - a USAir Boeing 737 aborts a takeoff in New York and slides into the East River. Two people are killed.
September 20 - a UTA DC-10 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Niger. 117 passengers are killed.
November
November 12 - California Polytechnic State University flies the first human powered helicopter
November 21 - a British Airways Boeing 747 narrowly misses crashing into the Penta hotel near Heathrow Airport
First flights
January
January 2 - Tupolev Tu-204
January 11 - AASI Jetcruzer 450
March
March 19 - V-22 Osprey
April
April 30 - SOCATA Omega
May
May 28 - AIDC Ching-Kuo
July
July 17 - B-2 Spirit
October
October 7 - Enstrom 480
December
December 26 - NAMC N-5
Entered service
February 9 - Boeing 747-400 with Northwest Airlines
October 27 - ATR-72 with Kar Air
January 4 - US Navy F-14 Tomcats shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s
January 8 - a British Midland Boeing 737-400 crashes on the M1 motorway near Kegworth, killing 32 people.
February
February 8 - a misunderstanding between the crew of a Boeing 707 and Air traffic control leads to a crash on Pico Alto mountain on the Azores
February 24 - a piece of fuselage detaches from a United Airlines Flight 811 over Hawaii. 9 people are sucked to their deaths.
March
March 22 - an Antonov An-225 sets a total of 106 world and class records during a 3 hour 30 minute flight carrying a Buran orbiter. Its total weight at take-off was 508,200 kg (1,129,370 lb)
April
April 12 - a British Airways Concorde loses a large piece of its rudder on a flight between Christchurch and Sydney
April 21 - Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7974, Item 2025, outbound on operational sortie from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, suffers engine explosion, total hydraulic failure. Pilot Maj. Dan E. House and RSO Capt. Blair L. Bozek both eject safely. This was the final Blackbird loss before the type was withdrawn from service.
June
June 7 - a Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
June 8 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 suffers a birdstrike during a display at the Paris Air Show. Pilot Anatoli Kvochur manages to prevent the plane from injuring anyone, and saves himself by ejecting at only 400 feet.
July
July 4 - Crash of an unmanned MiG-23 in Kortrijk, Belgium. The pilot had believed he was experiencing an engine failure shortly after take-off from the Soviet airbase near Kolobzreg, Poland and had ejected, while the aircraft continued on autopilot for 900 km, until running out of fuel. One 18-year-old man on the ground was killed in the crash.[2]
July 16 - European air traffic is halted due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers.
July 19 - A United Airlines DC-10 crashes on landing following a decompression in the number 2 engine. 111 people were killed.
August
August 5 - Piedmont is merged into USAir.
August 18 - a Qantas Boeing 747, the Spirit of Australia, flies non-stop from London to Sydney, setting a world record for a four engine jet, after having flown 11,000 miles in 20 hours.
August 21 - Rare Bear sets a new piston-powered speed record of 528.33mph
August 22 - Alexander Yakovlev dies, aged 84
September
September 3 - a Varig Boeing 737 crashes in Brazil killing 53 passengers. The pilots had not noticed an autopilot malfunction because they were listening to a football match.
September 8 - a chartered Partnair flight crashes into the sea off the coast of Denmark killing 55 people.
September 20 - a USAir Boeing 737 aborts a takeoff in New York and slides into the East River. Two people are killed.
September 20 - a UTA DC-10 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Niger. 117 passengers are killed.
November
November 12 - California Polytechnic State University flies the first human powered helicopter
November 21 - a British Airways Boeing 747 narrowly misses crashing into the Penta hotel near Heathrow Airport
First flights
January
January 2 - Tupolev Tu-204
January 11 - AASI Jetcruzer 450
March
March 19 - V-22 Osprey
April
April 30 - SOCATA Omega
May
May 28 - AIDC Ching-Kuo
July
July 17 - B-2 Spirit
October
October 7 - Enstrom 480
December
December 26 - NAMC N-5
Entered service
February 9 - Boeing 747-400 with Northwest Airlines
October 27 - ATR-72 with Kar Air
1988 in aviation
January
January 26 - the French defence ministry approves full-scale development of the Dassault Rafale
January 30 - a Boeing 747 sets a new around-the-world record of 36 hours 54 minutes
March
Spanair commenced operations.
April
April 8 - Pacific Southwest Airlines shut down operations and was integrated to USAir (now US Airways).
April 23 - Kanellos Kanellopoulos recreates the mythical flight of Daedalus by flying a pedal-powered aircraft, the MIT Daedalus from Crete to Santorini, covering the 119 km (74 miles) in 3 hours 54 minutes
May
May 23 - Shamu One, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 painted like and named after a SeaWorld whale, begins flying for the airline.
May 24 - British Airways takes over British Caledonian
June
June 26 - An Air France Airbus A320 on a low-and-slow demonstration flight at an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim crashes and kills three passengers.
July
July 3 - USS Vincennes allegedly mistakes an Iran Air Airbus A300 airliner (flight 655) for a hostile military plane, shooting it down and killing all 290 people on board.
July 8-13 - 11-year old Chris Marshall flies a Mooney M20 from San Diego to Paris
August
August 28 - an accident by a Frecce Tricolori pilot at an airshow at Ramstein Airbase kills 33 people.
October
October 12 - a Bar Harbor Airlines ATR-42 misses Air Force One by less than 1,000 feet
November
November 10 - the US Air Force publicly unveils the F-117 Nighthawk
December
December 21 - Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 flying from London to New York City, and carrying many passengers back home for Christmas, explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 258 persons. Libyan terrorists are blamed for the tragedy.
First flights
April
April 21 - Boeing 747-400
June
June 14 - Schweizer 330
June 28 - Sukhoi Su-35
July
July 12 - Scaled Composites/Beechcraft Model 143 Triumph, also first flight of the Williams International FJ44 turbofan engine.
July 14 - Socata TBM700
October
October 15 - Eurocopter EC 135
October 27 - ATR-72
December
December 9 - JAS 39 Gripen
Entered service
April
April 29 - Airbus A320 with British Airways
January 26 - the French defence ministry approves full-scale development of the Dassault Rafale
January 30 - a Boeing 747 sets a new around-the-world record of 36 hours 54 minutes
March
Spanair commenced operations.
April
April 8 - Pacific Southwest Airlines shut down operations and was integrated to USAir (now US Airways).
April 23 - Kanellos Kanellopoulos recreates the mythical flight of Daedalus by flying a pedal-powered aircraft, the MIT Daedalus from Crete to Santorini, covering the 119 km (74 miles) in 3 hours 54 minutes
May
May 23 - Shamu One, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 painted like and named after a SeaWorld whale, begins flying for the airline.
May 24 - British Airways takes over British Caledonian
June
June 26 - An Air France Airbus A320 on a low-and-slow demonstration flight at an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim crashes and kills three passengers.
July
July 3 - USS Vincennes allegedly mistakes an Iran Air Airbus A300 airliner (flight 655) for a hostile military plane, shooting it down and killing all 290 people on board.
July 8-13 - 11-year old Chris Marshall flies a Mooney M20 from San Diego to Paris
August
August 28 - an accident by a Frecce Tricolori pilot at an airshow at Ramstein Airbase kills 33 people.
October
October 12 - a Bar Harbor Airlines ATR-42 misses Air Force One by less than 1,000 feet
November
November 10 - the US Air Force publicly unveils the F-117 Nighthawk
December
December 21 - Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 flying from London to New York City, and carrying many passengers back home for Christmas, explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 258 persons. Libyan terrorists are blamed for the tragedy.
First flights
April
April 21 - Boeing 747-400
June
June 14 - Schweizer 330
June 28 - Sukhoi Su-35
July
July 12 - Scaled Composites/Beechcraft Model 143 Triumph, also first flight of the Williams International FJ44 turbofan engine.
July 14 - Socata TBM700
October
October 15 - Eurocopter EC 135
October 27 - ATR-72
December
December 9 - JAS 39 Gripen
Entered service
April
April 29 - Airbus A320 with British Airways
1987 in aviation
January
January 1 - United States Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphins and US Navy H-3 Sea Kings help rescue people trapped inside the Dupont Plaza hotel Puerto Rico after a fire there on New Year's Eve
January 7 - French Air Force jets attack the Libyan Air Force base in Ouadi Doum to avenge a raid by Libya against the French military 3 days before.
February
February 1 - Peoplexpress Airlines ceased operations.
February - British Airways privatised.
April
April 2 - a Royal Air Force Vickers VC-10 sets a new record time between the UK and Australia, landing in Perth after a flight of 16 hours 1 minute.
April 10 Mr. Johan Åhling -Sweden- introduces the 'Mosquito', a foot launched Powered Hang Glider harness.
May
May 9 - An Ilyushin Il-62 of LOT Polish Airlines bound for New York, crashes on take-off, killing 183 persons.
May 29 - Mathias Rust, 19 years old, a West German pilot, shocks people by landing his Cessna 172 plane in Red Square, Moscow.
June
June 21 - Air France pilot Partick Fourticq and friend Henri Pescarolo once again walk into the record books, completing an around the world flight aboard a Lockheed 18, in 88 hours and 19 minutes.
August
August 16 - a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 of Northwest Airlines crashes on take-off for a flight from Detroit to Phoenix. 154 are killed.
August 30 - Israel's government cancels the IAI Lavi programme
September
September 15 - a Eurocopter Panther sets new time-to-altitude records for helicopters in its class
October
October 23 - the last F-104 Starfighter is phased out of Luftwaffe service
October 31 - British Airways accepts the airline's first women pilots.
November
November 14 - Air Transat began airline operations.
November 26 - a DC-9 of Continental Airlines crashes in Denver, Colorado on take-off during a snowstorm. 26 lose their lives and 56 are gravely injured.
First flights
February
February 13 - Fokker 50
February 22 - Airbus A320
March
March 9 - Yakovlev Yak-141
April
April 30 - Promavia Jet Squalus
June
June 10 - Boeing Vertol Model 360
June 24 - Grob/E-Systems/AlliedSignal Egrett
October
October 9 - EHI EH101
November
November 24 - F-14 Tomcat - model "D"
December
AEA Maverick
December 29 - Scaled Composites AT³
Entered service
April - Tu-160 in Soviet Air Forces (184th Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment in Pryluki)
January 1 - United States Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphins and US Navy H-3 Sea Kings help rescue people trapped inside the Dupont Plaza hotel Puerto Rico after a fire there on New Year's Eve
January 7 - French Air Force jets attack the Libyan Air Force base in Ouadi Doum to avenge a raid by Libya against the French military 3 days before.
February
February 1 - Peoplexpress Airlines ceased operations.
February - British Airways privatised.
April
April 2 - a Royal Air Force Vickers VC-10 sets a new record time between the UK and Australia, landing in Perth after a flight of 16 hours 1 minute.
April 10 Mr. Johan Åhling -Sweden- introduces the 'Mosquito', a foot launched Powered Hang Glider harness.
May
May 9 - An Ilyushin Il-62 of LOT Polish Airlines bound for New York, crashes on take-off, killing 183 persons.
May 29 - Mathias Rust, 19 years old, a West German pilot, shocks people by landing his Cessna 172 plane in Red Square, Moscow.
June
June 21 - Air France pilot Partick Fourticq and friend Henri Pescarolo once again walk into the record books, completing an around the world flight aboard a Lockheed 18, in 88 hours and 19 minutes.
August
August 16 - a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 of Northwest Airlines crashes on take-off for a flight from Detroit to Phoenix. 154 are killed.
August 30 - Israel's government cancels the IAI Lavi programme
September
September 15 - a Eurocopter Panther sets new time-to-altitude records for helicopters in its class
October
October 23 - the last F-104 Starfighter is phased out of Luftwaffe service
October 31 - British Airways accepts the airline's first women pilots.
November
November 14 - Air Transat began airline operations.
November 26 - a DC-9 of Continental Airlines crashes in Denver, Colorado on take-off during a snowstorm. 26 lose their lives and 56 are gravely injured.
First flights
February
February 13 - Fokker 50
February 22 - Airbus A320
March
March 9 - Yakovlev Yak-141
April
April 30 - Promavia Jet Squalus
June
June 10 - Boeing Vertol Model 360
June 24 - Grob/E-Systems/AlliedSignal Egrett
October
October 9 - EHI EH101
November
November 24 - F-14 Tomcat - model "D"
December
AEA Maverick
December 29 - Scaled Composites AT³
Entered service
April - Tu-160 in Soviet Air Forces (184th Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment in Pryluki)
1986 in aviation
January
January 9 - the UK Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, resigns amidst a political furore over the future of Westland Helicopters. Two weeks later, Leon Brittan, the Trade and Industry Secretary, will also resign.
January 28 - the Space Shuttle Challenger is destroyed at launch
January 31 - Boeing completes purchase of de Havilland Canada
February
February 12 - US Navy aircraft carriers commence exercises in the Gulf of Sirte, off the coast of Libya, challenging that country's territorial claims to those waters.
April
April 2 - a bomb planted by a Palestinian terrorist group explodes aboard a TWA Boeing 727 on a flight between Rome and Athens. Four passengers are killed and nine more injured, but the aircraft lands safely.
April 14 - US Navy jets attack Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon
April 18 - Marcel Dassault (real name, Marcel Bloch) dies at 94.
April 28 - Pan Am returns to the Soviet Union, using a Boeing 747 from JFK International Airport in New York.
May
May 3 - 20 passengers die after an explosion caused by Tamil Tigers separatists aboard an Air Lanka Lockheed L-1011
May 7 - Al Mooney dies, aged 80.
May 16 - Top Gun (film) opens in theaters in United States
May 26 - Helicopter prison escape from a Parisian jail. Escapee Michel Vaujour was flown to freedom via his wife, a newly graduated helicopter pilot.
June
May 29-June 1 - the 5th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
Individual winners: 1. Krzysztof Lenartowicz & Janusz Darocha (Poland), 2. Carlos Eugui Aguado / Jose Anizonda (Spain), 3./4. Wacław Nycz & Marian Wieczorek (Poland) / Witold Świadek & Andrzej Korzeniowski (Poland). Team winners: 1. Poland, 2. West Germany, 3. Spain.
June 17 - Last flight ever by a Boeing B-47 Stratojet when B-47E-25-DT, 52-0166, was restored to flight status for a one-time-only ferry move from Naval Weapons Center China Lake, California to Castle Air Force Base, California for museum display.[1]
August
August 11 - a modified Westland Lynx sets a new helicopter world speed record of 249 mph (401 km/h)
August 20 - first test-flight of a propfan engine, the General Electric GE-36
August 26 - the CFM56 turbofan is flight tested for the first time.
October
October 21 - British Airways is offered for public sale by the British government
November
November 3 While attempting to land at Zahedan airport, an Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain; all 103 passengers are killed.
November 6 - Sumburgh disaster, a British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes in the Shetland Isles, killing 45 people. It is history's worst civlian helicopter disaster.
December
December 2 - an Air France Concorde returns to Paris after an 18-day around the world trip with 94 passengers.
December 14-23: First non-stop flight around the planet without refueling - the Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, on a distance of 26,366 statute miles (the FAI accredited distance is 40,212 km)
First flights
February
February 15 - Beechcraft Starship
April
April 27 - Partenavia Mosquito
April 25 - Air Tractor AT-503
July
July 4 - Dassault Rafale
August
August 6 - BAe ATP
August 8 - British Aerospace EAP
September
September 13 - Piaggio P.180 Avanti
November
November 30 - Fokker F100
December
December 31 - IAI Lavi
Entered service
May
May 1 - Dassault Mirage IVP with Armée de l'Air
October
October 1 - AH-64 Apache with the US 6th Cavalry Brigade
January 9 - the UK Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, resigns amidst a political furore over the future of Westland Helicopters. Two weeks later, Leon Brittan, the Trade and Industry Secretary, will also resign.
January 28 - the Space Shuttle Challenger is destroyed at launch
January 31 - Boeing completes purchase of de Havilland Canada
February
February 12 - US Navy aircraft carriers commence exercises in the Gulf of Sirte, off the coast of Libya, challenging that country's territorial claims to those waters.
April
April 2 - a bomb planted by a Palestinian terrorist group explodes aboard a TWA Boeing 727 on a flight between Rome and Athens. Four passengers are killed and nine more injured, but the aircraft lands safely.
April 14 - US Navy jets attack Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon
April 18 - Marcel Dassault (real name, Marcel Bloch) dies at 94.
April 28 - Pan Am returns to the Soviet Union, using a Boeing 747 from JFK International Airport in New York.
May
May 3 - 20 passengers die after an explosion caused by Tamil Tigers separatists aboard an Air Lanka Lockheed L-1011
May 7 - Al Mooney dies, aged 80.
May 16 - Top Gun (film) opens in theaters in United States
May 26 - Helicopter prison escape from a Parisian jail. Escapee Michel Vaujour was flown to freedom via his wife, a newly graduated helicopter pilot.
June
May 29-June 1 - the 5th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
Individual winners: 1. Krzysztof Lenartowicz & Janusz Darocha (Poland), 2. Carlos Eugui Aguado / Jose Anizonda (Spain), 3./4. Wacław Nycz & Marian Wieczorek (Poland) / Witold Świadek & Andrzej Korzeniowski (Poland). Team winners: 1. Poland, 2. West Germany, 3. Spain.
June 17 - Last flight ever by a Boeing B-47 Stratojet when B-47E-25-DT, 52-0166, was restored to flight status for a one-time-only ferry move from Naval Weapons Center China Lake, California to Castle Air Force Base, California for museum display.[1]
August
August 11 - a modified Westland Lynx sets a new helicopter world speed record of 249 mph (401 km/h)
August 20 - first test-flight of a propfan engine, the General Electric GE-36
August 26 - the CFM56 turbofan is flight tested for the first time.
October
October 21 - British Airways is offered for public sale by the British government
November
November 3 While attempting to land at Zahedan airport, an Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain; all 103 passengers are killed.
November 6 - Sumburgh disaster, a British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes in the Shetland Isles, killing 45 people. It is history's worst civlian helicopter disaster.
December
December 2 - an Air France Concorde returns to Paris after an 18-day around the world trip with 94 passengers.
December 14-23: First non-stop flight around the planet without refueling - the Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, on a distance of 26,366 statute miles (the FAI accredited distance is 40,212 km)
First flights
February
February 15 - Beechcraft Starship
April
April 27 - Partenavia Mosquito
April 25 - Air Tractor AT-503
July
July 4 - Dassault Rafale
August
August 6 - BAe ATP
August 8 - British Aerospace EAP
September
September 13 - Piaggio P.180 Avanti
November
November 30 - Fokker F100
December
December 31 - IAI Lavi
Entered service
May
May 1 - Dassault Mirage IVP with Armée de l'Air
October
October 1 - AH-64 Apache with the US 6th Cavalry Brigade
1985 in aviation
Events
Ryanair founded initially as a full-service carrier.
February
TWA is the first airline to operate a twin-engine jet on scheduled trans-atlantic services, with the Boeing 767
February 19 - an Iberia Boeing 727 crashes in Bilbao, killing 148. The plane got tangled with some television equipment as it tried to land.
February 19 - China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747, miraculously survives a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco.
March
March 15 - American Eagle Airlines, a commuter subsidiary of American Airlines, begins service.
April
April 22 - Pan Am reaches a deal with United Airlines, which buys Pan Am's Pacific Ocean routes for $US 750 million.
April 24 - LOT Polish Airlines inaugurates flights to JFK International Airport in New York.
June
June 15 - Amal guerrilla gunmen hijack TWA Flight 847 en route from Rome to Athens. The plane, which includes some Jewish passengers, is then re-routed and taken to Algiers, Beirut, and Algiers again before setting in Beirut. The 39 passengers and crew are freed on July 1 after Israel agrees to free 700 Shiite prisoners. This event was the inspiration for The Delta Force.
June 23 - Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, explodes off the Irish coast, killing all passengers. A terrorist bomb is suspected, but never confirmed.
August
August 2 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, crashes within inches of the runway at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, exploding and killing 133 persons, including a motorist whose car had been struck by the plane just before it exploded.
August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, from Tokyo to Osaka, crashes. The Boeing 747 had an explosion, then hit Mount Otsuka, killing 520 of 524 people on board. Rescuers are later shocked and saddened to find farewell notes that the passengers had written for their family and friends, next to the bodies. As of 2004[update] this is still the worst single-aircraft air disaster
August 21 - Sir Freddie Laker accepts a £UK 8 million in a settlement with British Airways. Laker had sued twelve airlines for conspiring to drive Laker Airways out of business
August 22 - a Boeing 737 of British Airtours explodes in Manchester before taking off, killing 54 of the 134 people on board and punctuating commercial aviation's worst month in history.
August 26 - TWA is purchased by Jordan Cahill and associates
November
November 18 - Cessna is purchased by General Dynamics
November 23 - EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked after take-off from Athens, and commandeered to Cairo. The next day, Egyptian forces storm the plane that was hijacked, starting a gun battle with the hijackers. 60 people die in the cross-fire
December
December 12 - a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 of charter airline Arrow Air crashes while taking 250 soldiers back to the United States for Christmas, killing everyone on board. See: Arrow Air Flight 1285
First flights
February
February 3 - Atlas Alpha XH-1
February 12 - Valmet L-90 Redigo prototype OH-VBB
March
March 11 - ARV Super 2
July
July 29 - Kawasaki T-4
August
August 30 - Bell D-292
October
October 15 - Fairchild Republic T-46
Entered service
December
December 3 - ATR-42 with Air Littoral
Ryanair founded initially as a full-service carrier.
February
TWA is the first airline to operate a twin-engine jet on scheduled trans-atlantic services, with the Boeing 767
February 19 - an Iberia Boeing 727 crashes in Bilbao, killing 148. The plane got tangled with some television equipment as it tried to land.
February 19 - China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747, miraculously survives a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco.
March
March 15 - American Eagle Airlines, a commuter subsidiary of American Airlines, begins service.
April
April 22 - Pan Am reaches a deal with United Airlines, which buys Pan Am's Pacific Ocean routes for $US 750 million.
April 24 - LOT Polish Airlines inaugurates flights to JFK International Airport in New York.
June
June 15 - Amal guerrilla gunmen hijack TWA Flight 847 en route from Rome to Athens. The plane, which includes some Jewish passengers, is then re-routed and taken to Algiers, Beirut, and Algiers again before setting in Beirut. The 39 passengers and crew are freed on July 1 after Israel agrees to free 700 Shiite prisoners. This event was the inspiration for The Delta Force.
June 23 - Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, explodes off the Irish coast, killing all passengers. A terrorist bomb is suspected, but never confirmed.
August
August 2 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, crashes within inches of the runway at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, exploding and killing 133 persons, including a motorist whose car had been struck by the plane just before it exploded.
August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, from Tokyo to Osaka, crashes. The Boeing 747 had an explosion, then hit Mount Otsuka, killing 520 of 524 people on board. Rescuers are later shocked and saddened to find farewell notes that the passengers had written for their family and friends, next to the bodies. As of 2004[update] this is still the worst single-aircraft air disaster
August 21 - Sir Freddie Laker accepts a £UK 8 million in a settlement with British Airways. Laker had sued twelve airlines for conspiring to drive Laker Airways out of business
August 22 - a Boeing 737 of British Airtours explodes in Manchester before taking off, killing 54 of the 134 people on board and punctuating commercial aviation's worst month in history.
August 26 - TWA is purchased by Jordan Cahill and associates
November
November 18 - Cessna is purchased by General Dynamics
November 23 - EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked after take-off from Athens, and commandeered to Cairo. The next day, Egyptian forces storm the plane that was hijacked, starting a gun battle with the hijackers. 60 people die in the cross-fire
December
December 12 - a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 of charter airline Arrow Air crashes while taking 250 soldiers back to the United States for Christmas, killing everyone on board. See: Arrow Air Flight 1285
First flights
February
February 3 - Atlas Alpha XH-1
February 12 - Valmet L-90 Redigo prototype OH-VBB
March
March 11 - ARV Super 2
July
July 29 - Kawasaki T-4
August
August 30 - Bell D-292
October
October 15 - Fairchild Republic T-46
Entered service
December
December 3 - ATR-42 with Air Littoral
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