Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/August in aviation/August 9
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- 1975 - Japan Air Lines establishes Japan Asia Airways as a subsidiary
- 1952 - Lt Peter Carmichael of No. 802 Squadron FAA aboard HMS Ocean claims the Fleet Air Arm's first MiG-15 kill, from a Hawker Sea Fury.
- 1945 - B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 nuclear weapon, Fat Man, on Nagasaki.
- 1896 - Otto Lilienthal crashes during a routine flight in the hills of Stölln and dies next day because of a spinal injury.
- 1884 - the first fully controllable free-flight is made in a French Army dirigible La France by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs. The electric-powered flight covers 8 km (5 miles) in 23 minutes. It was the first full circle flight with landing on the starting point.
