Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/April in aviation/April 3
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- 1981 - Pan Am founder Juan Trippe dies in Los Angeles.
- 1953 - BOAC introduces a weekly service to Tokyo by de Havilland Comet jet airliner
- 1944 - German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by attacks by the Fleet Air Arm and RAF.
- 1933 - two British aircraft, the Westland PV-3 and Westland PV-6 make the first flight over Mount Everest
- 1904 - Gabriel Voisin successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest flight on this day was 25 seconds.
