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TODAY IN AVIATION HISTORY
2012 – Syria announces that Damascus International Airport has reopened and is running scheduled flights after being closed for three days due to fighting between government and rebel forces in the area.[1]
2010 – US Navy F/A-18C Hornet, BuNo 165184, ‘AD-351’, suffers port undercarriage collapse on landing at NAF El Centro, California, at 1615 hrs., and departs runway. The pilot ejects safely.
2009 – Merpati Nusantara Airlines Fokker 100 PK-MJD makes an emergency landing at El Tari Airport, Kupang when the left main gear fails to extend. There are no injuries among the passengers and crew.
2004 – The pilot of a Blue Angels McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18, BuNo 161956, ejects approximately one mile off Perdido Key, Florida, after reporting mechanical problems and loss of power. Lt. Ted Steelman suffered minor injuries and fully recovered.
1993 – Launch: Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-61 at 10:53 am EDT. Mission highlights: Hubble Space Telescope servicing.
1992 – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-53 at 13:24:00 UTC. Mission highlights: Partially classified 10th and final DoD mission. Likely deployment of SDS2 satellite.
1990 – Launch: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-35 at 1:49:01 am EST. Mission highlights: Use of ASTRO-1 observatory.
1988 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-27 at 09:30:34 EST. Mission highlights: Third classified DoD mission; Lacrosse 1 deployment.
1986 – Pacific Western Airlines merged with Canadian Pacific Airlines to form Canadian Airlines.
1986 – An Air France Concorde returns to Paris after an 18-day around the world trip with 94 passengers.
1976 – The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, an ex-American Airlines 747 which has been adapted to carry the US reusable space shuttle, makes its flight.
1964 – SAC Boeing B-47E-125-BW Stratojet, 53-2398, of the 380th Bomb Wing, suffers collapse of forward main gear unit, skids off right side of runway at Plattsburgh AFB, New York, crew escapes safely. Airframe struck off charge 13 January 1965.
1950 – (2–25) Four hundred aircraft from seven United Nations aircraft carriers support U. N. ground forces with air strikes while U. S. Air Force aircraft drop supplies to them as they break out of their encirclement in northern Korea and are evacuated successfully by sea from Hungnam in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
1948 – First flight of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
1945 – First flight of the Bristol 170
1945 – First flight of the Handley Page Hermes
1943 – First Canadian-built Mosquito aircraft saw action over Berlin with RAF 139 Squadron.
1939 – New York’s La Guardia Airport opened for service!
1937 – First flight of the Brewster F2A Buffalo
1919 – First flight of the Handley Page Type W.
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