AVIATION HISTORY CHRONOLOGY
The following is the chronology covered in the current version of Aviation History. We are currently working on a major upgrade and welcome your comments on additional events that you feel should be covered. Please E-Mail us at Multied@ids.net
1783-First Ballon Flight
1783- First Hydrogen Balloon
1794-Balloon Used by French Army
1862-Balloons Used Exentsively in Civil War
1896-Model Airplane Flown
1899-Pilcher Dies Flying Glider
1900- Wright Brothers Fly Glider
1901- Zepplin Flies Around Eiffel Tower
1903- Wright Brothers Fly
1904- Wrights Fly in Circle
1904-Wilbur Flies in Circle
1905-First Flight in Europe
1907-Charles Voisin flies
1907-First Helicopter Flight
1908-First Circular Flight in Europe
1908-First Passenger Killed
1908- Wilbur Wright Flies in Europe
1909-Wright Brothers Start Flying in Europe
1909-De Haviland Biplane
1909-US Army Orders Wright Flyer
1909-English Channel is Crossed
1909-Glenn Curtiss Wins Race
1910-British Army Uses Airplane
1911-First Landing on Ship
1911-First Coast to Coast Flight
1911-First Air Raid
1911-First Woman Aviator Dies
1912-First Seaplance Contest Held
1913-Mediteranean Crossed
1913-Giant Russian Plane
1914-First Scheduled Service
1914-WWI Aerial Reconnaissance Proves Useful
1914-WWI- First Plane Downed
1914-WWI Paris Bombed
1915-Fokker Dominates Battlefield
1915- Zepplin Bombs London
1916-British Introduce DH-2
1916-Boeing Aircraft Established
1917- Bloody April
1918- Red Baron Shot Down
1918-Air Mail Service Begun
1918-Rickenboker US ACE
1919-Atlantic Crossed
1921-Battleship Sunk By Aircraft
1922-First US Aircraft Carrier Launched
1922-Coast to Coast in One Day
1923-Coast to Coast Non-Stop
1924-Around the World Flight
1925-Air Mail Contracts Given Out
1925-Doolittle Wins Schneider
1925-USS Shenandoah Crashes
1926-Ford Trimotor Introduced
1927-Lindbergh Crossed Atlantic Nonstop
1927-French Cross Southern Atlantic
1927-Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
1928-First Flight to Australia
1930-Amy Johnson Flies to Australia
1931-New Around the World Record
1932-Earhart Sets New Atlantic Record
1933-DC-1 Unvieled
1933-Boeing 247 Introduced
1933-Air Mail Contracts Suspended
1934-DC-2 Goes into Service
1934-United Aircraft Split
1934-Earhart Crosses Pacific
1935-Italians Use Airpower Against Ethioians
1935-Hughes Smashes World Spped Record
1935-Pan Am Begins Service to Manila
1935-DC-3 Introduced
1935-USS Macon Crashes
1936-Huges Crosses US in Under 10 Hours
1936-US Navy Buys Catalina
1936-Air Attacks Against Cities Take Place in Spanish Civil War
1937-Hindenburg Explodes
1937-Earhart Lost
1937-US Airforce Receives First B-17
1937-Hughes Sets Around the World Record
1938-DC-4 Flown
1938-Wrong Way Corrigan Flies Atlantic
1938-Stratoliner Unvieled
1939-Passenger Service Across Atlantic
1939-Germans Test Jet Aircraft
1939-Sikorsky Flies Helicopter
1939-German Use Airforce on Attack on Poland
1940-Battle of Britain
1941-Pearl Harbor
1942-Battle of Midway
1942-RAF Launches 1,000 Plane Raid
1942-First American Jet
1942-Doolittle Bombs Tokyo
1943-US Bombers Bomb Germany
1944-Saturation Bombing on Germany
1944- D-Day
1945-B-29 Attacks Japan
1945 Kamikazie Attacks
1945-B-29 Drops Atomic Bomb on Japan
1945- Boeing XC-69 Sets Speed Record
1945-P-80 Goes into Service
1945-F1- Phantom Flown
1946-Thunderjets Debuts
1936-Convair Unveils B-36
1946-DC-6 Introduced
1946-Meteor Sets World Speed Record
1946-Convair 240 Takes to the Air
1946-Last DC-3 Produced
1947-Sound Barrier Broken
1947-B-47 Enters Service
1947-Spruce Goose Flies
1948-Berlin Airlift
1948-Mig 15-Introduced
1949- Non Stop Flight Around the World
1949-Stratocruiser Goes Into Service
1949-Comet Unveiled
1949-F-86 Enters Service
1950-Korean War
1950-Super Constellation Takes to Air
1951-Canberra Produced in US
1952-US Airforce orders B52
1952-French Develop Mystere
1953-Comet Crashes
1953-DC-7 Introduced
1953- Super Sabre enter production
1954-F-104 Flys
1954-Boeing Rolls out First Jet Airliners
1954-C-131 Hercules Makes Maiden Flight
1954-Mig 19 Introduced
1955-Air Launched Fighter
1955-Mirage Fighter Flies
1955-U2 Tested
1956-Glenn Crosses US in 3 hours
1956-Tupelov 104 Introduced
1956-F-104 Flies
1956-B-58 Flies
1956-French Unviel Caravelle
1958-Douglas Introduces DC-8
1958-F-4 Phantom Flown
1958-Pan Am Starts 707 Service
1959-Airforce F-106 Sets New Speed Record
1959-X-15 Sets New Speed Record
1960-Planes Collide Over NY
1961-Vertical Takeoff Plane
1961-Trident Introduced
1961-Giant Sikorsky Flies
1962-VC-10 Launched
1962-YF-12 Flies
1963-Iluyshin Jet Service
1963-Boeing 727 Begins Service
1964-F111 Roll Out
1965-DC-9 Flies
1965-Quantas Flies Non Stop Across Pacific
1966-Airwar in Vietnam
1967-Airwar Decisive in Six Day War
1967-737 Introduced
1968-Giant Galaxy Flies
1969-First 747 flown
1969 Maiden Flight of Concorde
1970-DC 10 Program
1970 Lockheed Tristar
1972-Airbus Challenges US Dominance
1972-F-15 Eagle Flown
1973-Yom Kippur War
1974-F-16 Flies
1974-SR-71 Sets Atlantic Record
1975-B-1 Bomber Debuts
1975-Boeing 747 SP
1977-A-10 Enters Service
1977-F-18 Flown
1981-Boeing Introduces 767
1982-Airbus 310 Introduced
1982-Israeli Airforce Trounces Syria
1982-Boeing 757 Takes Off
1982-AN-124 Introduced
1982-A-320 Take to the Air
1987-Boeing Launches 747-400
1988-Stealth Fighter Unvieled
1989 B-2 Stealth Bomber
1990-MD-11 Flies
1991-War in Persian Gulf
1995-Boeing 777 Certified
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