Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/October in aviation/October 31

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October 31

• 1990 - the Australian airline industry is deregulated. Airlines are allowed to select their own routes and set their own fares.

• 1987 - British Airways accepts the airline's first women pilots.

• 1972 - Two pilots are killed in the crash of a Dassault Falcon 10 prototype.

• 1960 - BEA retires its last piston-engined airliners.

• 1959 - Colonel G. Mosolov sets a new airspeed record of 2,387 km/h (1,483 mph) in the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-66

• 1956 - a US Navy R4D Skytrain is the first aircraft to land at the South Pole

• 1933 - Air France is founded.