This Day in History

January 1
Gustave Whitehead was born, the first scheduled airline has opened, Middle East Airlines and Air India airliners crashed, Boeing 757 began operations, Premiair founded More...

January 2
the first flight of Tupolev Tu-204 More...

January 3
the first flight of Ilyushin IL-62 More...

January 4
Biman Bangladesh Airlines founded More...

January 5
Shorts SC-5 Belfast maiden flight More...

January 6
Deutsche Luft Hansa founded More...

January 7
the first flight over the English Cannel More...

January 9
the first flight of Lockheed Constellation, IL-12 Ash-82FN, Hawker Sidelley HS-121 Trident More...

January 10
the first flight of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 More...

January 11
The first Tupolev Tu-124 test flight in Aeroflot's road More...

January 12
Air Moldova and Domodedovo Airlines founded More...

January 13
the first production helicopter maiden flight More...

January 15
Antonov An-12 first Antarctic transcontinental flight More...

January 16
the first flight of A318 More...

January 17
the first flight of Latecoere 521 More...

January 18
the first flight of Vought Sikorsky VS-44 More...

January 20
the first flight of Vickers Vanguard More...

January 21
Boeing 747 began commercial operations More...

January 22
beginning of commercial operations by jet aircraft More...

January 23
the first flight of DHA-3 Drover More...

January 25
Boeing 707 began transcontinental operations More...

January 26
Antonov An24 began to fly in the Aeroflot's scheduled line More...

January 27
the first flight of Convair 880 More...

January 29
TsUMVS - Aeroflot's division for international flights founde More...

January 31
Aeroflot began to fly to Indonesia More...