Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/March in aviation/March 28
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- 1981 - Air France pilot Michel Breton flies the airline's last Sud Aviation Caravelle service, from Amsterdam to Paris.
- 1968 - Yuri Gagarin is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- 1961 - Air Afrique is formed
- 1948 - B-29 Superfortresses undergo aerial refueling tests, demonstrating the viability of this technique to extend the range of strategic bombers.
- 1935 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.
- 1910 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France
