Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/July in aviation/July 19
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- 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).
