Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/December in aviation/December 12
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- 1985 - Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 of charter airline Arrow Air crashes while taking 250 soldiers back to the United States for Christmas, killing everyone on board.
- 1957 - Maj Adrian Drew sets a new world speed record, in a modified F-101 Voodoo, of 1,207 mph (1,943 km/h)
- 1955 - The Bell X-1E rocketplane makes its first glide flight at Edwards Air Force Base.
- 1951 - Alaska Air becomes the first airline to fly over the North Pole
- 1928 - Royal Air Force Vickers Victorias evacuate British civilians from Kabul.
- 1918 - Cpt R.M. Smith, Brig Gen A.E. Borton and Maj Gen W. Salmond set out in a Handley Page O/400 from Heliopolis to Karachi, to survey a route for airmail to India.
