Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/April in aviation/April 6
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- 1965 - United Air Lines places orders for new aircraft worth $US 750 million - the largest airliner purchase at the time.
- 1965 - the BAC TSR.2 is cancelled in favour of the General Dynamics F-111 for the Royal Air Force (which is not, in the end, bought either)
- 1960 - the Short SC.1 makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back.
- 1957 - Olympic Airways is created by shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, from the ashes of bankrupt hellenic state airline T.A.E. (Technical and Aeronautical Exploitations).
- 1926 - Varney Speed Lines begins operations in the US. It will later become Continental Airlines
