Today marks the anniversaries of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, UAL’s emergence from bankruptcy, Boeing’s decision to discontinue the 727 and more…
Pan Am receives the first Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Ham the Chimp visits space, an Alaska Airlines MD-80 crashes off the coast of California, and more…
The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after launch, the crash of a TAME 727 in Colombia, a DC-3 chartered by the INS goes down in 1948 and more…
Chesley Sullenberger is born, Charles Lindbergh tells Congress to make peace with Hitler, a World Airways DC-10 crashes in Boston, more…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt boards a plane for Morocco, a fire on the deck of carrier USS Enterprise kills 27 sailors, and more…
The first Pan Am 747 makes its inaugural proving flight to London, two Space Shuttle launches, launch of the Deep Impact probe and more…
Happy birthday to Lufthansa! United Grounds Ted, the US Marines take delivery of their first AV-8 Harrier and more…
The Space Shuttle program is launched, Amelia Earhart is declared legally dead, Independence Air ceases operations, and more…
Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Scotland, New York Airways begins helicopter flights from Manhattan’s Pan Am Building and more…
The world’s first airport opens near Paris, the last moon mission returns to earth, a Chalk’s Ocean Airways crash is captured on video, and more…
“A day which will live in infamy,” air marshals shoot a passenger, a USAir employee deliberately crashes a plane, and more…
Pan Am ceases operations, Kuwaiti Airways Flight 221 is hijacked, the US Navy bombs Libya, and more…
TWA ceases operations, Northwest Orient Flight 6231 crashes in NY, the Civil Air Patrol is born, and more…
Eastern Flight 512 crashes in New York, Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Turkey, Curtiss Aeroplane Company is born, and more…
American Airlines files for bankruptcy protection, Korean Air Flight 858 is bombed by agents of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il and more…
American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in New York, Saudi Arabian and Kazakh jets collide, Delta orders 60 Boeing 757s, and more…
Concorde makes its final commercial flight, first flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 prototype, and more…
Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd are killed in a plane crash, a huge air race from England to Australia takes off, and more…
Singer John Denver dies in a plane crash, Boeing delivers the first 747-8, Air Force One has a near miss, and more…
A Boeing 727 is shot down in the Congo, a United Airlines flight becomes the first victim of a bombing, and more…
