1996 John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed
1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1989 Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1986 U.S. aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
1983 Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire
1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
1981 Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88
1980 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1972 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
1970 Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1969 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
1966 U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea
1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft
1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched
1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1945 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1944 U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack
1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down
1944 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England
1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1937 Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations)
1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines
1934 Donald Spiers, controller, Aircraft MoD
1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1932 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific
1931 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard
1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier
1928 John William Fozard, aircraft designer
1927 John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific
1925 Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft
1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
1922 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1917 Googie Withers, born in Karachi, India, actress, 1 of Our Aircraft is Missing
1917 Frederick Page, CEO, British Aerospace Aircraft Group
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1916 U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1911 Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1910 England's 1st aircraft flight
1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1909 Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division
1906 Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft
1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, Hughes Aircraft, inventor
1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1903 Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive
1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1898 Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer, Northrop Air
1892 Donald Wills Douglas, U.S., aircraft pioneer, McConnell Douglas
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, born in Holland, aircraft pioneer, Spider
1888 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft
1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co, Boeing
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