The deaths of two aviation greats; Andrei Tupolev in 1972 and Anthony Fokker in 1939. The B-1 Lancer makes its first flight in 1974, the first dogfight with a UAV in 2002 and the crashes of Azerbaijan Flight 217 in 2005 and Ali...
PSA Flight 182 collides with a Cessna 172 in San Diego, killing 144. The Royal Jordanian Air Force is born, the first "blind" instrument flight takes place on Long Island, and the Wright Brothers arrive in Kitty Hawk.
No one was injured when a Fairchild Metro III landed without its landing gear at Boeing Field Thursday night, forcing the closure of the airport's main runway.
British Airways will inaugurate their much anticipated—and somewhat controversial—"Business Plus" service between London City Airport and JFK Airport in New York on September 29th.