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- 1941 - New Zealand's first fighter squadron, No. 485 Squadron RAF is formed.
- 1926 - Four Royal Air Force Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2
- 1925 - Ryan Airlines begins regular services
- 1919 - An airmail service begins Folkestone and Cologne
- 1981 - Japan Air Lines is the first airline to use a computerised flight simulator to train its crews
- 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins, a massive air campaign against North Vietnam by the US
- 1974 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a DC-10, crashes into forest near Ermenonville, France, killing 346 people. At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in history.
- 1919 - The first US international airmail is carried between Seattle and Victoria, British Columbia by William Boeing in a Boeing CL-4S.
- 1983 - 4-5 - a Cubana de Aviacion Ilyushin Il-62M strays off course and overflies important American buildings two days in a row.
- 1957 - 4-15 - a US Navy airship sets a duration record for a non-rigid airship, traveling 9,448 miles (15,205 km) in 264 hours 12 minutes
- 2005 - 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.
- 1937 - Imperial Airways opens a new flying boat base at Hythe, Hampshire.
- 1965 - a Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King makes the first non-stop helicopter flight across North America. The distance travelled is 2,116 miles (3,405 kilometres) and a new distance record for helicopters
- 1951 - the Martin aircraft company gains production rights to the English Electric Canberra as the B-57
- 1915 - the first British tactical bombing raids made in support of ground troops made in Menin an Courtai.
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- 1935 - the Nazi Government in Germany announces the formation of the Luftwaffe, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles
- 1979 - The US Air Force sends E-3 Sentry aircraft to monitor the civil war in Yemen
- 1956 - Lt Cdr Peter Twiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta FD.2, also becoming the first person to exceed 1,000 mph. His top speed is 1,132 mph (1,821 km/h).
- 1955 - Pakistan International Airlines is formed
- 1953 - Czechoslovakian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s shoot down a USAF F-86 Sabre in Czech airspace.
- 2005 - China's first private airline, Okay Airlines has its maiden revenue flight.
- 1957 - a Lockheed Super Constellation of Flying Tiger Lines sets a payload record for a commercial aircraft of 41,749 lb (18,936 kg) between Newark, New Jersey and Burbank, California
- 1941 - the Congress of the United States passes the Lend-Lease bill, paving the way for the provision of (amongst other equipment) 16,000 warplanes to the UK. Later Lend-Lease arrangements will supply other Allied nations.
- 1918 - the first regular international airmail service begins, with Hansa-Brandenburg C.I aircraft linking Vienna, Lviv, Proskurov, and Kiev.
- 1980 - 12-14 - two B-52 Stratofortresses make a non-stop round-the-world flight in 42.5 hours
- 1953 - an RAF Avro Lincoln is shot down by Soviet fighters over East Germany
- 1945 - 13-14 - an Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron RAF drops the first 22,000 lb (9,980 kg) Grand Slam bomb
- 1922 - Portuguese pilots Cpt Gago Coutinho and Cpt Sacadura Cabral leave Lisbon to attempt the first crossing of the South Atlantic by air. They arrive in Brazil on June 16, in the third Fairey III they use for the trip.
- 1910 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
- 1995 - 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.
- 1947 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services.
- 1910 - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
- 1927 - Pan American Airways is formed to carry airmail on the Key West-Havana route.
- 1996 - The Fokker aircraft manufacturer is declared bankrupt.
- 1993 - Iranian Air Force bombers attack a hospital in Raniya, Iraq.
- 1985 - American Eagle Airlines, a commuter subsidiary of American Airlines, begins service.
- 1951 - a QANTAS flying boat makes a survey flight from Sydney to Valparaíso via Easter Island, the airline's first flight across the South Pacific.
- 1996 - The Fokker aircraft manufacturer is declared bankrupt.
- 1913 - The US Army forms the 1st Aero Squadron under Capt Charles Chandler at Texas City to scout for Mexican incursions along the border.
- 2006 - The New Kitakyushu Airport opens in Japan.
- 1983 - a Boeing 767 lands at Boeing Field in Washington, after a record breaking non-stop flight from Lisbon, Portugal. The 5,499 miles (8,798 km) flown non-stop constitute a record for twin engined airliners.
- 1940 - The United Kingdom suffers its first civilian air-raid casualties of the war after a raid by KG 26 on Scapa Flow
- 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1916 - US military aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico.
- 2005 - 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.
- 1997 - March 17-May 28 - Linda Finch, pilot, aviation historian, and San Antonio, Texas businesswoman, flying a restored and specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed Electra 10E, recreates the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight to circumnavigate the globe solo. Her attempt was successful, taking 73 days. She touched down in Oakland, California.
- 1976 - A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 makes the first non-stop flight from Tokyo to New York, taking 11.5 hours for the 10,139 km (6,300 mile) journey.
- 1970 - an Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-9 is hijacked. The hijacker is overpowered and the aircraft lands safely in Boston, although the co-pilot is killed in the struggle.
- 1923 - the US government authorises Army aircraft to drop calcium arsenate on Louisiana's cotton fields in order to kill weevils.
- 1969 - 18-19 - the Royal Air Force airlifts 300 troops to Anguilla in response to the civil unrest that had broken out on the island.
- 1963 - the Dassault Balzac makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
- 1916 - German ace Ernst Udet scores his first kill
- 1906 - Traian Vuia flies his "Vuia 1" in powered flight without headwind or catapult assisted takeoff. Not launched from a height.
- 1950 - Royal Air Force Avro Lincoln bombers are sent to Singapore to be used against the Communist guerillas of Malaya in the Malayan Emergency.
- 1932 - Luftschiffbau Zeppelin begins regular trans-atlantic services between Germany and Brazil, using the Graf Zeppelin.
- 1922 - The US Navy commissions its first aircraft carrier, a converted collier, the USS Langley.
- 1996 - Tupolev and NASA begin joint research into civil supersonic transports using a refurbished Tupolev Tu-144
- 1945 - the Ohka dedicated kamikaze weapon is used operationally for the first time but with no success.
- 1918 - Germany launches Operation Michael, marking the beginning of the Kaiserschlacht. In the initial attack against the British front west of St Quentin, the German Army Air Service has 1,680 aircraft to the Royal Flying Corps' 579.
- 1989 - 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)
- 1948 - Grp Cpt John Cunningham sets a new world altitude record of 59,446 ft (18,119 m) in a de Havilland Vampire.
- 1911 - Louis Breguet carries 11 passengers a distance of 5 km (3.1 miles)
- 1993 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.
- 1992 - 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.
- 1932 - 24-28 - Jim Mollison sets a new speed record between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, taking 4 days 17 hours in a de Havilland Puss Moth
- 1919 - Igor Sikorsky (pictured} flees Europe for the United States
- 1918 - Captain J.L. Trollope of No. 43 Squadron RFC shoots down six German aircraft in a day.
- 1843 - William S. Henson and John Stringfellow filed articles of incorporation for the world's first air transport company, the Aerial Transit Company
- 2006 - A revolutionary scramjet jet engine Hyshot III designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
- 1983 - as a consequence of the March 4 and 5 incidents, the American government bans use of American airspace by Cubana de Aviacion for 14 days.
- 1979 - QANTAS retires its last Boeing 707 and becomes the world's first airline with a fleet of exclusively Boeing 747s
- 1940 - the US government grants permission to the country's aircraft manufacturers to sell advanced combat aircraft to nations fighting the Axis powers.
- 1924 - Royal Air Force (flag pictured) officers McLaren, Plenderleith, and Andrews set off in an attempted round-the-world flight in a Vickers Vulture II. Their attempt will ultimately fail in Siberia in early August.
- 2004 - 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)
- 1977 - A collision between a KLM and a PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583.
- 1953 - the Royal Netherlands Air Force becomes a separate command
- 1945 - the final V-2 missile to hit England falls in Kent
- 1931 - the crash of a TWA Fokker F.10 at Bazaar, Kansas prompts the first grounding of an aircraft type. The grounding was ordered by the US Department of Commerce.
- 1981 - Air France pilot Michel Breton flies the airline's last Sud Aviation Caravelle service, from Amsterdam to Paris.
- 1968 - Yuri Gagarin is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- 1961 - Air Afrique is formed
- 1948 - B-29 Superfortresses undergo aerial refueling tests, demonstrating the viability of this technique to extend the range of strategic bombers.
- 1935 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.
- 1910 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France
- 1981 - British Airways makes its last Vickers VC10 flight
- 1974 - The first Airbus to fly revenue passengers, the A300B2 enters service with Air France.
- 1939 - Hans Dieterle sets a new airspeed record in a Heinkel He 100 of 746 km/h (464 mph).
- 1929 - Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between England and India.
- 1928 - Mario di Bernardi sets a new airspeed record - the first over 300 mph (483 km/h). He flies a Macchi M.52bis.
- 1918 - Alan Jerrard VC, British ace (7 victories) is shot down by Benno Fiala von Fernbrugg and taken captive
- 2002 - Swiss International Air Lines begins operations, taking over many routes from bankrupt Swissair.
- 1903 - Richard Pearse is reputed to have made a powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft, a monoplane of his own construction, that crash lands on a hedge. This date is computed from circumstantial evidence of eyewitnesses as the flight was not well-documented at the time. The machine made a flight claimed to be around 150 feet (45 m) on his farm at Upper Waitohi, near Timaru in south Canterbury, New Zealand.
