1964 in aviation

For the year see 1964

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1964:

Events

Chilean President Jorge Alessandri grants the Chilean Navy the authority to operate all types of aircraft without restriction. It is the first time that the navy has administrative control all naval aircraft since 1930.

January

January 22 - In its first public violation of the 1959 requirement for all aircraft operating from the Minas Gerais to belong to the Brazilian Air Force, the Brazilian Navy steams Minas Gerais into Guanabara Bay at Rio de Janeiro with four navy T-28 Trojan trainers on her flight deck.
January 28 - Soviet MiG-19 shoots down a T-39 Sabreliner which accidentally entered East German airspace with all 3 crew killed.

February

February 7 - The Canadian Golden Hawks aerobatic team is disbanded.
February 19 - French troops are airlifted to Gabon to put down a coup by the army.
February 29 - US President Lyndon Johnson reveals the existence of the CIA's Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft

April

April 17 - Jerrie Mock arrives in Columbus, Ohio in a Cessna 180, completing a solo round-the-world flight and becoming the first woman to make such a journey.

May

May 7 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, USA. All 44 aboard are killed. The crash was likely the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a mass murder/suicide.
May 11 - Jackie Cochran sets a new women's airspeed record of 1,429 mph (2,300 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter

June

June 1 - the Kenyan Air Force is established
June 6 - Silver City Airways announces that it has airlifted its one millionth car between England and continental Europe.

July

July 31 - A. H. Parker sets a new sailplane distance record of 1,000 km (621 miles) in a Sisu-1A

August

August 2 - US Navy aircraft are involved in skirmishes in the Gulf of Tonkin. F-8 Crusaders sink a North Vietnamese torpedo boat
August 5 - US Navy aircraft attack North Vietnamese naval bases, spearheading direct US involvement in the Vietnam War.
August 7-9 - the Turkish Air Force strikes Greek positions on Cyprus
August 23 - Greek Air Force F-4 Phantoms are recalled while en route to attack Turkish military positions

October

October 1 - Derby Airways changes its name to British Midland Airways
October 13 - The first production Learjet, a Model 23, was delivered.
October 16 - the People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon

November

November 4 - First ever automatic blind landing by a passenger aircraft when a British European Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident landed in dense fog
November 26 - Belgian paratroops are dropped into Congo by the US Air Force

December

President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco of Brazil ends the impasse over whether the Brazilian Air Force or the Brazilian Navy should control aircraft operated from the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais, assigning the responsibility to the navy. The air minister resigns and his successor is fired, and air force personnel machine-gun a naval helicopter on the ground at Porto Alegre in protest.
December 14 - The US Air Force launches Operation Barrel Roll, attacking the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos

First flights

January

January 5 - Shorts Belfast XR362 G-ASKE

March

March 7 - Hawker Siddeley Kestrel
March 7 - Helwan HA-300

April

April 9 - de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
April 10 - EWR VJ 101C, world's first supersonic V/STOL aircraft
April 21 - HFB-320 Hansa Jet

May

May 1 - BAC Type 221
May 25 - Ryan XV-5

June

June 26 - Curtiss-Wright X-19

July

July 15 - Aviomilano F.250 I-RAIE, prototype of the SIAI Marchetti SF.260

September

September 4 - HAL HJT-16 Kiran
September 21 - XB-70 Valkyrie
September 27 - BAC TSR.2
September 29 - LTV-Hiller-Ryan XC-142

October

October 14 - Sikorsky YCH-53
October 19 - Agusta A.101 MM80358 FF

November

November 18 - C-2 Greyhound

December

December 21 - General Dynamics F-111
December 22 - SR-71 Blackbird

Entered service

February

February 1 - Boeing 727 with Eastern Air Lines
Dassault Mirage IV with Armée de l'Air

1964 in Aviation Pictures

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