Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/July in aviation/July 17
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- 2002 - Midway Airlines suspends operations.
- 1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 people aboard, explodes off the coast of New York.
- 1981 - the Israeli Air Force attacks Beirut in retribution for Palestinian terror attacks.
- 1980 - a Vickers Viscount plane of charter airline Alidair lands safely in Devon after suffering damage to all four engines.
- 1980 - Cathay Pacific begins a Hong Kong-London service
- 1970 - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport commences passenger screening to help prevent hijackings; the first airport to do so.
- 1962 - Maj Robert M. White (USAF), pilots the North American X-15 to a record altitude of 314 750 feet (59 miles, 96 km).
- 1927 - USMC de Havilland DH.4s are used to attack bandits in Nicaragua threatening the garrison at Ocotal.
