Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/July in aviation/July 1

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July 1

• 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

• 1970 - Melbourne opens its new international airport

• 1966 - U.S. Navy aircraft from USS Constellation and USS Hancock sink three North Vietnamese torpedo boats

• 1961 - the RAF deploys combat aircraft to reinforce Kuwait, which is under threat from Iraq.

• 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

• 1924 - Regular night airmail services commence in the United States, linking Chicago with Cheyenne.

• 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.