1963 in aviation

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Years in aviation:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Centuries:	19th Century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1963:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 June 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 October 2 First flights 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 7 - Aeroflot commences direct services between Moscow and Havana

[edit] February

• February 14 - the Indian Air Force receives its first batch of Soviet fighters, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s

[edit] March

• March 18 - the Dassault Balzac makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back

[edit] June

• June 3 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.

[edit] July

• July 2 - Crash of Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 at Rochester, New York, killed 7 people.
• July 19 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

[edit] August

• August 21 - Tupolev 124 ditching in Neva river, Leningrad, Soviet Union without single injury or fatality

[edit] October

• In an exercise named Operation Big Lift, the US Air Force airlifts an entire armoured division of 15,000 troops to Europe within 5 days.

[edit] First flights

January

• January 7 - Short Skyvan
• January 9 - Yakovlev Yak-36
• January 26 - Hiller OH-5

February

• February 9 - Boeing 727
• February 25 - Transall C.160

March

• March 26 - Hunting H.126

April

• April 20 - EWR VJ 101

May

• May 27 - McDonell F-4C Phantom II (USAF version)

June

• June 29 - Saab 105

August

• August 1 - PZL-104 Wilga (Wilga 2 prototype)
• August 20 - BAC One-Eleven

December

• December 17 - C-141 Starlifter
• December 17 – Matra Jupiter
• December 21 - Hawker Siddeley Andover

[edit] Entered service

• Lim-6bis in the Polish Air Force

February

• A-6A Intruder with VA-42 Green Pawns of US Navy

November

• McDonnell F-4C Phantom II with USAF