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- 1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- 1978 - July 1-19 - Frank Haile Jr and William Wisner fly two Beechcraft Bonanzas around the world in formation.
- 1976 - Clive Canning arrives in the United Kingdom, having flown from Australia in a Thorp T-18 homebuilt aircraft
- 1966 - U.S. Navy aircraft from USS Constellation and USS Hancock sink three North Vietnamese torpedo boats
- 1960 - British United Airways is formed
- 1960 - PVO Strany MiG-19 shoots down an RB-47H Stratojet (s/n 53-4281) in international airspace with 4 of the crew killed and 2 captured by the Soviets
- 1953 - air traffic control for West Germany is handed back to German authorities
- 1946 - a B-29 Superfortress drops an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in a nuclear test.
- 1935 - The Flying Keys set endurance record by flying a Curtiss Robin non-stop for 653 hours, 34 minutes
- 1926 - A Blackburn Dart makes the first night landing on an aircraft carrier, HMS Furious
- 1922 - the US Navy orders the still-under-construction battlecruisers USS Lexington and USS Saratoga to be completed as aircraft carriers.
- 1920 - Belgium establishes the first internal air-service of any European colony with the Lara-Ligne Aérienne Roi Albert in Belgian Congo
- 1919 - London's first airport is opened, at Hounslow Heath. The facilities include a permanent Customs hall.
- 1916 - beginning of the Battle of the Somme. In the five months of the battle, the British lose 782 aircraft and 576 pilots but maintain air superiority over the battlefield.
- 1913 - Royal Netherlands Army forms its Aviation Division (Luchtvaart Afdeling)
- 1912 - Harriet Quimby, the first licensed female pilot in the United States, as part of an Air Show spectacular flew around the Boston Light. During the flight, her Berliot plane was caught in turbulent air and nose-dived, plummeting both Quimby and a meet organizer passenger to their deaths in Dorchester Bay.
- 1859 - July 1 and 2, John Wise and three companions complete a Montgolfière flight over a distance of 1,292 km (St. Louis - Henderson, USA).
- 1785, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the American meteorologist John Jeffries cross the English Channel from Dover to Guines in a balloon.
- 2005 - Steve Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated the first direct crossing of the Atlantic by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown on June 14 1919 in a Vickers Vimy bi-plane.
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean.
- 1926 - the United States Army Air Service becomes the United States Army Air Corps.
- 1919 - Airship R 34 sets out of the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives in back in the UK on July 13.
- 1912 - The Danish Air Force is established as an army air corps.
- 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies the first rigid airship, the LZ1 Zeppelin from Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen. It carries five passengers on a 20-minute flight.
- 1984 - Air Florida suspends all their flights after going bankrupt.
- 1976 - Three Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules carry commandos to Entebbe, Uganda to rescue the 258 passengers of an Air France Airbus hijacked six days earlier
- 1953 - first tethered flight by the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig VTOL aircraft
- 1950 - F9F Panthers of VF-51 flying from USS Valley Forge become the first US jet fighters to go into combat. A North Korean Yak-9 is shot down.
- 1950 - Supermarine Seafires of 800 Naval Air Squadron and Fairey Fireflys of 827 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Triumph fly the first non-US sortie over Korea.
- 1937 - July 3-6 - Pan Am and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic in preparation for the commencement of regular services.
- 1929 - Lt A. W. Gordon hooks a Vought VO-1 onto US Navy airship USS Los Angeles in successful parasite fighter experiments.
- 1989 - the pilot of a Soviet Air Force MiG-23 ejects shortly after take-off in Poland. The pilotless aircraft flies across Europe before crashing into a Belgian farmhouse
- 1911 - First ever commercial cargo to be carried by an aircraft. The General Electric company paid £100 to have a case of electric lamps flown from Shoreham to Hove in England.
- 1908 - Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the Scientific American trophy for a public flight of over 1 km. Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft).
- 1970 - An Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108
- 1874 - Belgian Vincent de Groof is killed in an accident as he tries to do a flight using flapping wings.
- 1992 - the final F-4 Phantom IIs are retired from Royal Air Force service.
- 1980 - the largest light airplane meet outside the United States brings 750 small planes to the Popular Flying Associations annual meeting in Leicester.
- 1951 - aerial refueling is used under combat conditions for the first time, with a KB-29 Superfortress refueling four RF-80 Shooting Stars over North Korea
- 1939 - Olga Klepikowa sets a world record by flying a glider 746 km (466 miles) from Moscow to Otradnoje.
- 1915 - Lt Oswald Boelcke claims his first victory, a Blériot Parasol, while flying an Albatros C.I two-seater with Lt von Wühlisch as the observer & gunner.
- 1981 - Stephen Ptacek flies a solar-powered aircraft Solar Challenger across the English Channel, taking a little over five hours.
- 1962 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152 sets a new airspeed record of 2,681 km/h (1,666 mph)
- 1929 - Transcontinental Air Transport commences a regular service transporting passengers right across the United States in 48 hours, using a combination of trains and aircraft for different legs of the journey.
- 2006 - Aerospace scientists in Toronto conduct the first confirmed flight of a manned ornithopter operating under its own power.
- 1991 - a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet is forced to shoot down an E-2 Hawkeye after its crew abandons it following an engine fire
- 1983 - General Dynamics rolls out the 1,000th F-16 Fighting Falcon
- 1953 - Sabena begins the first international helicopter service, linking Belgium, the Netherlands and France
- 1952 - New York Airways begins inter-airport helicopter services to link Idlewild, La Guardia, and Newark airports.
- 1908 - Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by Lèon Delagrange at Turin.
- 2006 - an S7 Airlines Airbus A310, flight 778, crashes at Irkutsk International Airport, after overshooting the runway and hitting a concrete barrier.
- 1982 - a Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes while en route from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to New Orleans, killing 137 passengers plus people on the ground.
- 1960 - Sabena begins airlifting Belgian nationals out of Congo. Over the next three weeks, 25,711 will fly home
- 1959 - a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant makes the first non-stop flight from England to Cape Town
- 1918 - British ace James McCudden is killed when his aircraft crashes on take-off.
- 1910, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
- 2006 - PIA Flight 688, operated by a Fokker F.27, crashes in Pakistan, with the loss of all 45 on board.
- 2000 - EADS is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, Dornier, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA).
- 1965 - first US Air Force aerial victories of the Vietnam War scored by F-4 Phantoms
- 1940 - the Battle of Britain commences with the first German attacks on British convoys in the English Channel.
- 1914 - July 10-11, German Reinhold Böhm flies his Albatros-biplane 24 hours and 12 minutes without refueling and nonstop. This one-man-flight record lasted until 1927.
- 1997 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba, killing 44.
- 1994 - a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th United Nations relief flight into Sarajevo
- 1945 – An Eastern Air Lines flight en route from Boston, Massachusetts to Miami with stops in Washington, DC and Columbia, SC collided with a US Army B-25 Mitchell bomber about 3,000 feet above Syracuse, SC (about 20 miles from Florence, SC). The commercial pilot, G. D. Davis, landed his craft in a cornfield nearby. One passenger, an infant, was killed. The bomber exploded; two died and one was able to parachute safely.
- 1937 - July 12-14 - Mikhail Gromov, A. B. Yumashev, and S. A. Danilin establish a new distance record of 10,148 km (6,303 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto, California, USA via the North Pole.
- 1910 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality
- 1849 - July 12 and July 25, balloons (Montgolfières) are used for bombardment for the first time, with Austrians bombing Venice.
- 2006 - An RAF Harrier GR9 crashes en route to the Royal International Air Tattoo.
- 1996 - A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3.
- 1925 - Western Air Express is founded.
- 1978 - after receiving orders from United Airlines, Boeing begins full-scale development of the Boeing 767
- 1959 - Maj V Ilyushin sets a new altitude record of 28,852 m (94,659 ft) in the Sukhoi T-431
- 1948 - Vampire F3s of No. 54 Squadron RAF became the first jet aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. The six aircraft, commanded by Wg Cdr D S Wilson-MacDonald, DSO, DFC, go via Stornoway, Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US where they gave several formation aerobatic displays.
- 1948 - Silver City Airways makes the first car-carrying flight between England and France.
- 1938 - Howard Hughes flies a Lockheed 14N around the world in 3 days 19 hours, to and from Floyd Bennett Field New York, more than halving the time that Wiley Post took to make the trip.
- 1933 - July 14-22, Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo flight. His flight begins and ends at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, with stops at Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk and Alaska - a total distance of 25,099 km (15,596 miles).
- 1952 - a pair of USAF H-19 Chickasaws make the first transatlantic crossing by helicopter
- 1947 - Northwest Airlines flies the first commercial passenger flight from the U.S. to Japan, using The Manila, a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, by way of Anchorage. From Tokyo, the flight continued to Seoul, Shanghai, and Manila.
- 1934 - Varney Speed Lines (later to be Continental Airlines) makes its first passenger-carrying flight.
- 1933 - July 15-17, Lithuanians Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas were supposed to make a non-stop flight from New York City to Kaunas, Lithuania in Bellanca aeroplane, but fatally crashed in Germany after 37 hours, 11 minutes, covering distance of 6411 km, only 650 km short of their final destination.
- 1989 - European air traffic is halted due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers.
- 1930 - July 16-August 8, the second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1930 in Berlin, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
- 2002 - Midway Airlines suspends operations.
- 1996 - TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 people aboard, explodes off the coast of New York.
- 1981 - the Israeli Air Force attacks Beirut in retribution for Palestinian terror attacks.
- 1980 - a Vickers Viscount plane of charter airline Alidair lands safely in Devon after suffering damage to all four engines.
- 1980 - Cathay Pacific begins a Hong Kong-London service
- 1970 - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport commences passenger screening to help prevent hijackings; the first airport to do so.
- 1962 - Maj Robert M. White (USAF), pilots the North American X-15 to a record altitude of 314 750 feet (59 miles, 96 km).
- 1927 - USMC de Havilland DH.4s are used to attack bandits in Nicaragua threatening the garrison at Ocotal.
- 1924 - Pelletier d'Oisy completes a flight from Paris to Tokyo. The journey takes 120 hours in the air.
- 1943 - US Navy airship K-74 is shot down by a German submarine, the only airship lost to enemy fire during World War II.
- 1942 - a Messerschmitt Me 262 prototype makes its first flight under jet power, test-piloted by Fritz Wendel. Previous flights had been driven by a propeller.
- 1803, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m in a balloon.
- 1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive.
- 1985 - Sharon Christa McAuliffe is chosen by NASA to be the first private citizen passenger in the history of space flight.
- 1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82
- 1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
- 1961 - MGM's By Love Possessed is shown on a TWA Boeing 707, the first feature film exhibited on a regularly scheduled commercial airline flight
- 1957 - A USAF Northrop F-89J Scorpion launches a live MB-1 'Ding Dong' nuclear rocket
- 1934 - F9C Sparrowhawk parasite fighters from airship USS Macon successfully launch from the airship, scout out the cruiser USS Houston and return to the Macon.
- 1934 - July 19-August 20 - Gen Henry Arnold leads ten Martin B-10 bombers on a 8,000 mile (12,875 km) proving flight.
- 1923 - Czechoslovakian airline CSA commences operations.
- 1867 - James W. Butler and Edmund Edwards are awarded Patent 2115 for their delta wing jet design the Steam Dart.
- 1812, lamp gas used to fill a Montgolfière (Green).
- 1969 - Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
- 1939 - first flight powered by liquid-fuelled rocket made by Erich Warsitz in the Heinkel He 176
- 1936 - Twenty Junkers Ju 52s ferry Spanish Nationalist troops from Morocco to Spain in the world's first major military airlift.
- 1930 - July 20-August 1, 7560 km race over Europe of the Challenge 1930 contest.
- 1946 - a McDonnell FH Phantom makes the first landing by a jet aboard a US aircraft carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1932 - Wolfgang von Gronau sets out to make a round-the-world trip in a Dornier Wal. One hundred and eleven days later, it will be the first such trip made in a flying boat.
- 1919 - Anthony Fokker founds the Dutch Aircraft Factory at Schiphol.
- 1983 - Dick Smith achieves the first solo circumnavigation of the globe in a helicopter. Smith makes the 56,742 kilometre (35,258 mile) journey in stages using a Bell Jetranger III named Australian Explorer.
- 1974 - the US Navy and Marine Corps evacuate 500 people from Cyprus, away from the conflict erupting between Greece and Turkey on the island
- 1954 - an Air Cathay Douglas DC-4 is shot down near Hainan Island
- 1931 - July 22-September 1 - Sir Alan Cobham and crew make a 19,800 km (12,300 mile) return flight between England and the Belgian Congo in a Short Valletta.
- 1929 - Lufthansa uses a catapult to launch a Heinkel He 12 mailplane from the passenger liner Bremen, 400 km (249 miles) out of New York, speeding the mail on its way before the ship reached port.
- 1984 - an Air Canada Boeing 767 runs out of fuel on its way from Montreal to Edmonton. Ground crew at the Montreal airport miscalculated the flight's length and did not put enough fuel in it. Pilot Robert Pearson, an amateur glider pilot, lands the plane safely at Gimli, making the incident famous as the "Gimli Glider"
- 1979 - the British government announces plans to privatise British Airways and publicly sell British Aerospace shares.
- 1977 - After threats of shutting down transatlantic air traffic, the U.S. and British governments reach the Bermuda II accord, giving British airlines additional ports of entry in the United States and removing American airlines' rights to carry passengers beyond London and Hong Kong.
- 1950 - aircraft carrier USS Boxer crosses the Pacific Ocean in record time, from Alameda, California to Yokosuka in 8 days 16 hours.
- 1932 - an aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont hangs himself
- 1926 - two Lufthansa Junkers G.24s leave Berlin to make a round-trip to Beijing. They will return on September 26.
- 2000 - a Concorde of Air France (Air France Flight 4590) catches fire after takeoff, crashing and killing all 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground, at Gonesse, France.
- 1962 - the US Army forms its first armed helicopter company, using UH-1 Hueys
- 1949 - Second Lieutenant Bob Kipp of the Canadian Blue Devils aerobatic team is killed in a training accident.
- 1915 - Captain Lanoe Hawker of the RFC wins first Victoria Cross for aerial combat, over France.
- 1909 - Louis Blériot claims a £1,000 prize from the British Daily Mail newspaper for being the first pilot to cross the English Channel. He makes the crossing in his Blériot Type XI from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Northfall Meadow (near Dover Castle) in 37 minutes. Blériot also received an additional £3,000 from the French government.
- 1972 - NASA announces Rockwell International as prime contractor for the Space Shuttle Orbiter
- 1955 - Capital Airlines adopts the Vickers Viscount, the first US airline to select a British airliner.
- 1954 - Soviet Air Force Lavochkin La-7s attack two US Navy A-1 Skyraiders searching for survivors from the Air Cathay flight. The Skyraiders respond and shoot down the La-7s
- 1918 - Maj Edward Mannock, Britain's highest scoring ace of the war, is shot down by German ground fire. He had scored 73 victories.
- 1996 - the final General Dynamics F-111F attack aircraft are withdrawn from USAF service; on its retirement, the aircraft finally receives an official popular name: "Aardvark."
- 1955 - an El Al Lockheed Constellation is shot down by Bulgarian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s. All 58 aboard are killed
- 1944 - Gloster Meteors of No. 616 Squadron RAF fly their first V1 interception mission
- 1945 - a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building
- 1941 - the Vichy government agrees to build German aircraft in France
- 1914 - outbreak of World War I Aviation changes war in a twofold way. The aeroplane turns the sky into a new battle field where about 20,000 flyers, most of them trained pilots die. Aircraft eliminate the distinction between frontline and hinterland, with the civilian population far behind the frontline also becoming a target.
- 2002 - Vanguard Airlines ceases operations. The next day it files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy law.
- 1959 - QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet.
- 1952 - a USAF RB-45 Tornado makes the first non-stop crossing of the Pacific by jet
- 1950 - a BEA Vickers Viscount makes the first turboprop-powered passenger flight.
- 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
- 1918 - Lt Frank Linke-Crawford, Austrian 4th highest scoring ace, is shot down in combat. He had scored 27 victories.
- 1901 - German meteorologists Berson and Süring climb to 10,800 m in a free balloon.
- 1894 - Hiram Maxim launches an enormous biplane test rig (wingspan 32 m, 105 ft) propelled by two steam engines. It makes a short captive hop after running down a length of railway track. After that he stopped his experiments, which had already cost him around thirty thousands pounds.
