Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/April in aviation/April 18
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- 1993 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi radar station
- 1986 - Marcel Dassault (real name, Marcel Bloch) dies at 94.
- 1980 - Air Zimbabwe is formed.
- 1978 - the Vickers Viscount becomes the first turboprop airliner to see 25 years in service
- 1967 - Aeroflot and Japan Air Lines jointly inaugurate a Moscow-Tokyo service
- 1943 - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when T1-323, his Mitsubishi G4M, is ambushed by USAAF P-38 Lightnings over Bougainville
- 1942 - Col James Doolittle leads the first US attack on the Japanese mainland, leading a force of sixteen B-25 Mitchells flying from the USS Hornet against Tokyo in what comes to be known as the "Doolittle Raid".
- 1919 - CMA (Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes) commences a mail and freight service between Paris and Lille, using ex-military Breguet 14s.
- 1915 - Roland Garros is shot down and taken captive.
