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NetJets receives first three Cessna Citation Ascend aircraft as Textron Aviation’s new midsize jet enters service. Textron Aviation delivers initial units of new midsize business
Leonardo retains position in Dow Jones ESG indices for the sixteenth year, leading the aerospace and defence sector. Sixteenth consecutive inclusion reflects sustained sustainability performance
Dubai International Airport resumes full operations following UAE airspace restoration, with rapid recovery expected despite Q1 traffic decline. DXB returns to full operational capacity as regional network rebuild begins Dubai Airports has entered a rapid recovery phase following the full restoration of UAE airspace on 2
Scotland-based EcoJet Airlines enters liquidation after failing to secure funding for its planned electric passenger operations. Scottish startup unable to secure funding to advance operations EcoJet Airlines, a Scotland-based startup aiming to launch passenger flights using electric propulsion, has entered voluntary liquidation after failing to secure
UAE awards Embraer a contract for up to 20 C-390 Millennium aircraft, marking the platform’s first Middle East selection and boosting airlift capability. Order for up to 20 aircraft strengthens UAE’s multi-mission airlift capability The UAE has selected the C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft, with Tawazun
Anodyne Electronics Manufacturing Corp. appoints David Betts to strengthen sales and business development across Australia and New Zealand. Regional appointment supports growth in special-mission avionics market Canadian avionics manufacturer Anodyne Electronics Manufacturing Corp. (AEM) has strengthened its regional presence in Australia and New Zealand with the
Phelan Green outlines its strategy to supply electro-sustainable aviation fuel from South Africa into European markets, aligned with upcoming EU and UK blending mandates. By
B&H Worldwide launches an online Case Study Library, showcasing real-world aerospace logistics operations including AOG response, engine transport, and supply chain solutions. Digital platform highlights
hensec introduces AGNOST-A, an early-warning system that alerts pilots to GNSS jamming and spoofing threats at destination airports, enhancing operational awareness and safety. Early-warning solution
2006 – The U. S. Air Force retired the last Lockheed Martin C-141 Starlifter The Hanoi Taxi landed for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at WPAFB in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton.
2004 – An Air Cush Let 410UVP (9XR-EF) stalls on takeoff in Jiech, Sudan, due to an imbalance after a shift in its cargo load.
2001 – Soyuz TM-31 is back on Earth.
1993 – STS 55, 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Columbia lands at Edwards AFB.
1983 – Death of Sergei Petrovich Izotov, Russian aircraft turbine engine designer
1982 – second prototype (SP-PSB) of the Helicopter PZL Swidnik W-3 “Sokol” makes his first flight.
1968 – Astronaut Neil Armstrong ejects from Bell Aerospace Lunar Landing Research Vehicle No. 1, known as the “Flying Bedstead”, at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Ellington AFB, Houston, Texas, as it goes out of control. Had he ejected 1/2 second later, his chute would not have deployed fully. Armstrong suffers a bit tongue.
1963 – Death of Paul Ward Spencer ‘George’ Bulman CBE, MC, AFC and Bar, British WWI pilot, air racer and chief test pilot for Hawker aircraft.
1959 – SNECMA C.450-01 Coleoptere made its first free vertical flight at Melun-Villaroche.
1955 – United Airlines begins the first nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco.
1952 – Birth of Chiaki Mukai, Japanese doctor, and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have 2 spaceflights.
1944 – Mitsubishi A7 M1 Reppu (designed as the successor to the Imperial Japanese Navy’s A6 M Zero) officially flies for the first time.
1944 – First flight of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster, American experimental bomber aircraft, designed for a high top speed, with two engines within the fuselage driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers mounted at the tail, leaving the wing and fuselage clean and free of drag-inducing protrusions.
1942 – First flight of the Kawanishi N1K (“Mighty Wind”), an Allied reporting name “Rex”
1941 – First flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. In its 25 years of service, more than 15, 600 were made by Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, NY.
1941 – Igor Sikorsky sets a world endurance record for helicopter flight of 1 h 32 min, in a Sikorsky VS-300
1937 – The Zeppelin Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes while attempting a landing at Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey; of the 97 people on board, 35 are killed; one person on the ground also dies.
1936 – First flight of the Latécoère 298, French seaplane that served during WWII. It was designed primarily as a torpedo bomber, but served also as a dive bomber against land and naval targets, and as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft
1935 – First flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, American Fighter aircraft.
1930 – First flight of the Boeing Monomail, American single, low set, all metal cantilever wing. Retractable landing gear and a streamlined fuselage.
1919 – The first commercial flight, from Canada to United States, occurs as a Canadian Curtiss aircraft flies 150 pounds of raw furs from Toronto to Elizabeth, New Jersey. It is not a non-stop flight.
1908 – The Wright brothers fly for the first time since 1905, at Kitty Hawk. Wilbur pilots the 1905 Flyer III, modified so that the pilot and a passenger can sit erect, on a flight of just over 1,000 feet.
1896 – Samuel Pierpont Langley flies the unmanned Aerodrome No. 5 from a houseboat on the Potomac River a distance of 3,300ft.
