Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/February in aviation/February 21
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- 1984 - 14 hours and 2 minutes after taking off from New York, Air France pilot Patrick Fourticq and his companion, race driver Henry Pescarolo, land their Piper Malibu in Paris, setting a world record for a trans-Atlantic flight by a single engined light aircraft.
- 1951 - an English Electric Canberra becomes the first jet to make an unrefuelled crossing of the Atlantic, taking 4 hours 37 minutes
- 1945 - aircraft carrier USS Saratoga is badly damaged by a kamikaze attack
