Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/September in aviation/September 11
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- 2001 - 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people.
- 1973 - An AVE Mizar flying car prototype broke-up in flight over Oxnard, California killing the company founder and the pilot.
- 1968 - Air New Zealand flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's navigator to Sydney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
- 1965 - the US 1st Cavalry Division arrives in Vietnam with 400 helicopters
- 1943 - French fighter ace Pierre Le Gloan (18 victories) died in a crash
- 1932 - Polish Challenge 1932 winners, Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura died in an aircrash.
- 1924 - Canada's first regular airmail service begins, with Laurentide Air Services linking Haileybury with Rouyn.
- 1917 - French ace Capitaine Georges Guynemer goes missing in action. Kurt Wisserman of Jasta 3 is credited with shooting him down, but his body is never found.
