1963 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1963:
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- January 7 - Aeroflot launches its service from Moscow to Havana (Cuba), using Tu-114 turboprop aircraft.
[edit] February
- February 14 - the Indian Air Force receives its first batch of Soviet fighters, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s
[edit] March
- March 18 - the Dassault Balzac makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
[edit] June
- June 3 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7C crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. 101 people perished .
[edit] July
- July 2 - Crash of Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 at Rochester NY USA, killing 7 people.
- July 19 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
[edit] August
- August 21 - a Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 ditched in the Neva River Leningrad (Soviet Union) without a single injury or fatality
[edit] October
- In an exercise named Operation Big Lift, the US Air Force airlifts an entire armoured division of 15,000 troops to Europe within 5 days.
[edit] First flights
[edit] January
- January 2 - Aero Commander 1121 Jet Commander
- January 7 - Short Skyvan
- January 9 - Yakovlev Yak-36
- January 26 - Hiller OH-5
[edit] February
[edit] March
[edit] April
[edit] May
- May 27 - McDonell Douglas F-4C Phantom II (USAF version)
[edit] June
[edit] August
- August 1 - PZL-104 Wilga (Wilga 2 prototype)
- August 20 - BAC One-Eleven
[edit] October
- October 7 - Learjet 23 prototype, the very first Learjet built.
[edit] December
- December 17 - C-141 Starlifter
- December 17 – Matra Jupiter
- December 21 - Hawker Siddeley Andover
[edit] Entered service
- Lim-6bis in the Polish Air Force
February
- A-6A Intruder with VA-42 Green Pawns of US Navy
November
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