Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/January in aviation/January 26
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- 1995 - Outbreak of the Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian Mil Mi-8 and Mil Mi-25, as well as Ecuadorian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters begin ground attack operations.
- 1990 - The first of two new Air Force Ones, VIP variants of the Boeing 747-200, for the use of the United States President and his staff, are delivered.
- 1988 - the French defence ministry approves full-scale development of the Dassault Rafale
- 1953 - The first meeting of the Experimental Aircraft Association takes place at Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Curtis-Wright Field.
- 1946 - Col William Councill sets a new US transcontinental speed record of 4 hours 13 minutes in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
- 1926 - Ramón Franco sets out from Spain in a Dornier Do J to reach Buenos Aires after 59 hours in the air.
