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- 1983 - a Korean Air Boeing 747 (Korean Air flight 007) is downed by Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15s. According to investigations, the Korean Air plane had strayed off course and into Russian airspace near Sakhalin Island, and Soviet pilots claimed the plane had ignored warnings before being shot down. All 269 on board died.
- 1953 - a B-47 Stratojet is refueled by a KB-47 in the first jet-to-jet aerial refueling
- 1939 - Germany invades Poland. The Luftwaffe plays a key tactical bombing role in neutralising Polish defences.
- 1913 - Frenchman Adolphe Pégoud does the first upside-down flight.
- 1925 - The U.S. zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
- 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States subsequently recognized by the Early Birds of Aviation.
- 1989 - a Varig Boeing 737 crashes in Brazil killing 53 passengers. The pilots had not noticed an autopilot malfunction because they were listening to a football match.
- 1981 - McDonnell Douglas delivers the 1,000th DC-9 produced; it was ordered by Swissair.
- 1978 - an Air Rhodesia Vickers Viscount is shot down by members of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front using a SA-7 surface-to-air missile. The ten passengers who survived the crash are shot dead.
- 1970 - Air France places the first orders for the Airbus A300
- 1955 - J. S. Fairfield makes the first ejection from an aircraft on the ground, escaping from a Gloster Meteor traveling at 120 mph (193 km/h) along a runway
- 1939 - Paratroops are used for the first time, with German units dropped into Silesia, behind Polish lines.
- 1939 - Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys are used to drop propaganda leaflets into German cities.
- 1932 - Jimmy Doolittle sets a new landplane airspeed record of 296 mph (476 km/h) in the Gee Bee R-1
- 1925 - USS Shenandoah breaks up in a storm and crashes, killing thirteen.
- 1917 - The US 1st Aero Squadron arrives in France
- 1950 - Cpt Robert Wayne becomes the first pilot to be rescued from behind enemy lines by a helicopter
- 1939 - first British bombs of the war dropped on German targets, with a Bristol Blenheim attacking the German fleet.
- 1936- 4-5 - Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island
- 1922 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle flies across the United States in under a day in a de Havilland DH.4. He takes 21 hours 19 minutes to fly from Pablo Beach, Florida to Rockwell Field, California.
- 2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117.
- 1923 - US Army bombers carry out anti-shipping exercises, sinking the obsolete battleships USS Virginia and USS New Jersey.
- 1976 - Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Union defects to the West, landing his MiG-25 FoxBat in Japan.
- 1952 - the de Havilland Sea Vixen prototype disintegrates at the Farnborough Air Show, killing 28 spectators as well as its pilot
- 1948 - a de Havilland DH.108 breaks the sound barrier, the first British aircraft to do so.
- 1929 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Calshot Spit, UK. Won by Flt. Off. Henry Waghorn in a Supermarine S.6 at 528.9 km/h (328.7 mph).
- 1956 - the Bell X-2 research aircraft is flown by Captain Iven C. Kincheloe to a new altitude record of 126,200 ft (38,466 m).
- 1940 - Hermann Göring orders the Luftwaffe to stop targeting British airfields and attack London itself instead.
- 1940 - 7-8 - the largest mass air combat in history takes place over Britain, with 1,200 British and German aircraft operating in an area of only 24 x 48 km (15 x 30 miles)
- 1934 - 16 - 9,537 km race over Europe and North Africa and a speed trial of the Challenge 1934 contest.
- 1933 - 7-8 - six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats make a non-stop formation flight from Norfolk, Virginia to the Panama Canal, covering 2,059 miles (3,314 km) in 25 hours 20 minutes.
- 1932 - Thomas Settle and Winfield Bushnell set a new balloon distance record of 1,550 km (963 miles) between Basle, Switzerland and Vilna, Poland.
- 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the 1st time successfully.
- 1997 - The Boeing 777-300 is rolled out. At 73 metres (242 feet) it is the longest airliner ever built. This title will be claimed by the Airbus A340-600 in 2001.
- 1994 - USAir (now US Airways) flight 427 crashes into a hillside near Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania killing all 132 people aboard.
- 1989 - a chartered Partnair flight crashes into the sea off the coast of Denmark killing 55 people.
- 1920 - the final leg is added to the US trans-continental airmail service, across the Rocky Mountains from Omaha to Sacramento
- 1912 - The Argentine Air Force is formed as a flying school at El Palomar, the military airport near Buenos Aires.
- 1966 - the Concorde's Rolls-Royce Olympus engine begins flight tests underneath an Avro Vulcan bomber
- 1955 - American Airlines, TWA, and United Airlines agree to adopt a domestic "coach class" for transcontinental flights across the United States.
- 1943 - Italian battleship Roma is sunk by two Fritz X radio controlled glide bombs
- 1922 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the first King's Cup air race, flying from England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.
- 1913 - Prevost reaches 204 km/h with the "Deperdussin-racing aeroplane".
- 1911 - the first British airmail flight is made. Gustav Hamel flies from Hendon to Windsor.
- 1908, Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
- 1981 - British Airways CEO Roy Watts announces a financial crisis for the airline. He states that the company is losing £UK 200 per minute.
- 1976 - In the worst mid-air disaster to this point, 176 people die when a British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and a Inex Adria Douglas DC-9 collide over Zagreb.
- 1938 - Germany prohibits all foreign air traffic in its airspace except along specific air corridors.
- 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.
- 1961 - the Hawker P.1127 makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
- 1943 - Benito Mussolini is freed in a daring rescue by Walter Gerlach in a Fieseler Storch
- 1918 - 627 French and 611 US fighters are brought together for the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. At the time, it is the largest force of aircraft assembled for a single operation.
- [[1886 - 12-13 - Frenchmen Hervé and Alluard achieve a Montgolfiere flight over 24 hours.
- 1994 - The Airbus Beluga makes its maiden flight.
- 1965 - a new hot air balloon altitude record is set of 9,770 ft (2,978 m)
- 1931 - the United Kingdom wins the Schneider Trophy outright. Lt. John Boothman completes the course at Calshot Spit in a Supermarine S.6B at 547.297 km/h (340.1 mph).
- 1984 - 14-18 - Joe Kittinger makes the first solo transatlantic balloon flight, from Carbon, Maine to Savona, Italy.
- 1976 - A F-14 Tomcat rolls off the deck of USS John F. Kennedy and sinks in international waters. A major salvage operation is launched to retrieve the fighter lest it fall into Soviet hands.
- 1987 - a Eurocopter Panther sets new time-to-altitude records for helicopters in its class
- 1960 - Tasman Empire Airways retires its last flying boat from service.
- 1950 - Task Force 7, centred on five US Navy carriers and one of the Royal Navy, supports the USMC assault on Green Beach, paving the way for the Inchon Landing
- 1940 - Germany makes its heaviest daylight raid on London
- 1916 - French submarine Foucault is sunk by two Austrian flying boats, becoming the first submarine to be sunk by an aircraft.
- 1911 - Édouard de Nié Port, one of the pre-eminent aeroplane designers and racing pilots of the era, and co-founder with his brother Charles of the French aircraft manufacturer Nieuport, is killed in a flying accident.
- 1932 - Cyril Uwins sets a new heavier-than-air altitude record of 43,976 ft (13,404 m) in a Vickers Vespa.
- 1993 - the F/A-18 Hornet logs its 2 millionth flying hour - achieved in only ten years of operations.
- 1960 - East African Airways commences jet services between London and Nairobi
- 1916 - Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen scores his first kill, from a Albatros D.II
- 1947 - the United States Air Force becomes its own fully independent military command.
- 1928 - Don Juan de la Cierva flies a Cierva C.8 autogiro from Croydon, England, to Le Bourget, France, making the first crossing of the English Channel in a rotorcraft.
- 1962 - The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy makes it's maiden flight.
- 1921 - the first regular scheduled airline service in Latin America commences, with Colombian airline SCADTA operating float-equipped Junkers F.13s between Barranquilla and Girandot.
- 1902 - The Wright Brothers begin testing their third glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1784, the brothers Robert and Colin Hullin take a balloon ride over 186 km from Paris to Beuvry.
- 1783, the Montgolfiers launch a sheep, duck, and rooster in a hot-air balloon in a demonstration for King Louis XVI of France. The balloon rises some 500 m (1,700 ft) and returns the animals unharmed to the ground.
- 1989 - a USAir Boeing 737 aborts a takeoff in New York and slides into the East River. Two people are killed.
- 1945, an experimental Gloster Meteor with Rolls-Royce Trent engines makes the first turboprop-powered flight.
- 1922 - first flight over 200 mph (322 km/h) made by Sadi Lecointe in a Nieuport-Delage NiD 29.
- 1920 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Venice, Italy. Lt. Luigi Bolgna in a Savoia S.12 is the only starter. Speed 172.6 km/h (107.3 mph).
- 1904 - Wilbur Wright makes the first circuit flight, in the Flyer II.
- 1874, Du Temple builds a steam-powered monoplane which achieves a short hop after gaining speed by rolling down a ramp. It carries a human passenger whose identity is no longer known.
- 2005 - JetBlue Airways Flight 292, an Airbus A320 makes an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after its nose wheels got stuck at a 90 degree angle. All 145 people on board survived.
- 1953 - North Korean pilot No Kum-Sok defects, bringing his MiG-15 with him to Seoul and collecting a $US 100,000 reward.
- 1951 - the US Marine Corps makes the world's first mass combat deployment by helicopter. 228 Marines are landed in 12 Sikorsky HRS
- 1994 - two RAF SEPECAT Jaguars and a USAF A-10 attack and destroy a Serbian T-55 tank
- 1972 - the 1,000th Boeing 727 is sold, a sales record for airliners
- 1950 - Col David Schilling makes the first crossing of the Atlantic in a jet fighter, a F-84 Thunderjet.
- 1934 - Sir Alan Cobham sets out in an Airspeed Courier in a failed attempt to fly non-stop from England to India.
- 1959 - The USAF officially cancels the North American Aviation XF-108 Rapier.
- 1941 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel single-handedly sinks a Soviet battleship (the Marat) flying a Junkers Ju 87
- 1916 - 23-24 - eleven Zeppelins attack England in a mass air-raid. Two are shot down, LZ 76 by ground fire, and LZ 74 by Lt Frederick Sowrey
- 1913 - Roland Garros (right) makes the first air crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. He flies the 729 km (453 miles) from Saint-Raphaël to Bizerte in 7 hours 53 minutes.
- 1911 - the first US airmail flight is made. Earle Ovington flies 9.7 km (6 miles) from Nassau Boulevard, New York to Mineola, Long Island
- 1910 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.
- 1966 - Marina Solovyeva sets a new women's airspeed record of 2,044 km/h (1,270 mph) in the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-76
- 1956 - the Luftwaffe is re-formed in West Germany
- 1929 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle (right) makes a completely blind take-off, flight, and landing.
- 1919 - the Schneider Trophy race is flown at Bournemouth, UK. An Italian Savoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilot Guido Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
- 1918 - Lt David Ingalls claims his fifth victory, to become the only US Navy ace of World War I.
- 1852 - English engineer Henri Giffard flies 27 km (17 miles) in a steam-powered dirigible, reaching a speed of about 10 km/h.
- 1932 - Lewis Yancey sets an autogiro (right) altitude record of 21,500 ft (6,553 m) in a Pitcairn PCA-2
- 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from General Mitchell International leading to the development of Instrument Flying.
- 1977 - Laker Airways inaugurates its no-booking "Skytrain" service between London and New York
- 1927 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Venice, Italy. Won by Flight Lt. S.N Webster (UK) in a Supermarine S5 at 453.2 km/h (281.7mph).
- 1917 - for the second time, French ace René Fonck shoots down six German aircraft in a day.
- 1956 - Milburn Apt sets a new airspeed record in the Bell X-2, becoming the first person to exceed Mach 3, reaching a speed of 2,094 mph (3,350 km/h) before he lost control of the X-2 and died in the resulting crash
- 1946 - Geoffrey de Havilland Jr is killed when his de Havilland DH.108 breaks up in mid-air
- 1922 - the US Navy conducts the first large-scale torpedo bombing exercises. Eighteen Naval Aircraft Factory PTs attack three battleships and score 8 hits in 25 minutes.
- 1914 - The first French bomber group is formed.
- 1980 - Iraqi Tupolev Tu-22s land in Riyadh after bombing Iran
- 1933 - Lemoine sets a new altitude record of 13,661 m (44,820 ft) in a Potez 50
- 1927 - Lt Dick Bently of the South African Air Force arrives in South Africa after having made the first solo flight there from England. He left London on September 1.
- 1924 - two of four Douglas World Cruisers (right) of the U.S. Army Air Service arrive in Seattle, completing the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. They had left the city on April 6, taking 175 days for the journey.
- 1923 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Cowes, UK. Won by David Rittenhouse (USA) in a Curtiss CR.3 at 285.5 km/h (177.4 mph).
- 1946 - a Lockheed P2V Neptune sets a new distance record of 11,235 miles (18,082 km)
- 1929 - Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte arrive in Manchuria in a Breguet 19 (right), having set a new distance record of 7,905 km (4,912 miles) from Le Bourget, France.
- 1907 - Louis Breguet and Charles Robert Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotorcraft to lift a person off the ground. (The craft is still controlled by handlers standing around it on the ground).
- 1982 - H Ross Perot Jr. and J.W. Coburn make history by landing their Bell LongRanger II helicopter in Dallas, Texas 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes after taking off. It is the first time a trip around the world is completed by helicopter.
- 1968 - the first Boeing 747 is rolled out
- 1958 - Britain's last flying boat airliners are put out of service when Aquila Airways terminates it Southampton-Madeira route.
- 1957 - Austrian Airlines is formed from the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways
- 1949 - the Berlin Airlift officially ends, with 2,325 tons (2,362 tonnes) of food and supplies having been flown into the city. The final flight is made a week later.
- 1942 - German ace Hans-Joachim Marseille is shot down and killed. He had 158 victories at the time.
- 1940 - the Battle of Britain is said to be over, with Hitler's planned invasion of Britain ("Operation Seelöwe") postponed indefinitely.
- 1919 - the British Aerial Transport Company begins domestic flights between London and Birmingham in a Koolhoven FK.26.
- 1906 - The Gordon Bennett Trophy (right) for ballooning is awarded for the first time. It goes to Lt Frank Lahm of the US Army, who flies 647 km (402 miles) in the balloon United States.
