Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/August in aviation/August 1
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- 1983 - America West Airlines begins flying, from Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1972 - Delta Air Lines absorbs Northeast Airlines
- 1951 - Japan Air Lines is formed
- 1943 - Soviet fighter ace Lydia Litvak is shot down and killed. She had 12 victories at the time of her death.
- 1943 - USAAF B-24 Liberators flying from Libya attack the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania.
- 1941 - the Soviet Union makes the first operational use of parasite fighters, attacking Constanza with modified Polikarpov I-16s carried into action by Tupolev TB-3s.
- 1941 - the United States embargoes the sale of aviation fuel to Japan.
- 1915 - Lt Max Immelmann shoots down his first aircraft, beginning his career as an ace and the period that will become known as the "Fokker scourge"
- 1907 - An Aeronautical Division is formed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects".
