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On This Day in Aviation History

On This Day in Aviation History: September 17th

NASA unveils the Space Shuttle Enterprise, East African Airways begins Nairobi-London service, maiden flight of the X-15 rocket plane, first fatality on a powered airplane, and more...
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On This Day in Aviation History

On This Day in Aviation History: February 8th

Freddie Laker founds Laker Airways, the FAA retires Amelia Earhart's aircraft registration, first flights of the Boeing 247 and 747-8, and more...
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On This Day in Aviation History

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: January 28th in Aviation History

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...
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On This Day in Aviation History: November 23rd

The Air France Airbus A380 begins service to New York, first flight of the "Flying Flapjack," the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, and more...
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On This Day in Aviation History: July 27th

First flights of the de Havilland Comet and F-15 Eagle, a Sukhoi Su-27 crashes into a crowd in the worst air show disaster, two news helicopters collide over Phoenix, and more...
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