Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/January in aviation/January 30
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- 1988 - a Boeing 747 sets a new around-the-world record of 36 hours 54 minutes
- 1948 - Orville Wright, generally credited as co-inventor of the airplane, dies at 76.
- 1943 - Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquitos make the first daylight air-raid on Berlin
- 1943 - 30-31 – the H2S radar is used by RAF bombers for navigation for the first time
- 1942 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines formed by the acquisition and merger of Arrow Airways and Canadian Airways, along with all the various subsidiaries of the latter.
