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1925 - USS Shenandoah ZR-1 (US Zeppelin) departed Lakehurst on a promotional flight to the Midwest which would include flyovers of 40 cities and visits to state fairs. This will be his las flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_(ZR-1)#Wreck_of_the_Shenandoah

1927 - 1st flight of the Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente, German experimental "tail-first" aircraft, twin engine high-wing monoplane with a canard layout and fixed tricycle undercarriage with an open cockpit and an enclosed cabin for 2-3 passengers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_F_19

1927 - French Léon Givon and Pierre-Charles Corbu took off from Le Bourget in an attempt to fly to New-York with the Farman F-180 'Oiseau bleu', French twin tandem engined Biplane airliner designed to fly non-stop between Paris and New York. They landed back at Le Bourget 4 hr later officially due to bad weather but most probably because of the insability of the aircraft.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=4602

1927 - Death of Anne Löwenstein-Wertheim Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (born Lady Anne Savile), British aviation pionneer, she disappeared with her Fokker in North Atlantic sea.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_L%C3%B6wenstein-Wertheim

1927 - Mexican Aviator Emilio Carranza Rodríguez, flying a all-wood constructed airplane with a a 185 hp BMW engine, named Coahuila, flew from Mexico City to Ciudad Juarez in 10hrs, 2nd longest flight flown by a Mexican Pilot.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Carranza

1930 - Death of Raoul Stojsavljevic, Austro-Hungarian WWI flying ace, airliner pilot who founded and directed the new Innsbruck airport, Killed inthe crash of his Junkers F.13 through thick fog into the Krottenkopf mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Stojsavljevic - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/austrhun/stojsavljevic.php

1930 - 1st non-stop east-west crossing by a fixed-wing aircraft of the North Atlantic is done by French Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte landing their Breguet Super Bidon named 'Point d'Interrogation' in New-York, flying a distance of 6,200 km (3,900 mi) from Paris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_19#Sports_Variants

1931 - Lowell R. Bayles flying the Granville Gee Bee Model Z 'City of Springfield' won the Goodyear Trophy race, run over a course of 50 miles (80 km) at an average speed of 205 miles per hour (330 km/h) in Cleveland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_Z#Operational_history - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Bayles#Flying

1937 - 1st flight of The Grumman F4F Wildcat, American carrier-based WWII fighter aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F4F_Wildcat

1939 - 1st flight of The Messerschmitt Me 210, German heavy fighter and ground-attack aircraft, designed to replace the Bf 110 in heavy fighter role

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_210 - http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/me-210.php

1939 - The Advanced Air Striking Force (AASF) is deployed to France. The AASF initially comprised twelve squadrons, 10 equipped with Fairey Battle light bombers and 2 equipped with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighters and is commanded by Air Vice Marshal P.H.L. Playfair.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1939.aspx

1940 - HMS Ark Royal Conducts 2 air strikes (Operations "Smash" and "Grab") with Swordfish bombers on Cagliari.

http://www.kbismarck.com/ark-royal.html

1942 - 1st flight of The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka ("tank wings"), Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans. A T-60 light tank bearing large wood and fabric biplane wings and twin tail was tested, piloted by the famous Soviet experimental glider pilot Sergei Anokhin. The T-60 landed on a field near the airdrome, and after dropping the glider wings and tail, the driver returned it to its base. Due to Lack of sufficiently-powerful aircraft to tow it at the required 160 km/h (99 mph), the project was abandoned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

1942 - 1st flight of The Hawker Tempest, British fighter aircraft, improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, and one of the most powerful fighter aircraft used during WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Tempest

1943 - Death of Franz Schiess, WWII german fighter ace, probably shot down in his Bf 109 G-6 by a P-38 near Iscia , Italy, while attacking a USAAF B-25 bomber formation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schiess

1944 - Birth of Claude Nicollier, Swiss test pilot and 1st Swiss Spationaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Nicollier

1944 - George Herbert Walker Bush (future president), Flying his Grumman TBM Avenger, is hit by flak and his engine caught on fire. Despite this, he completed his attack over Japanese installations on Chichijima and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits. He flew several miles from the island before bailing out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush#World_War_II

1944 – In an experiment with the use of the F4U Corsair as a fighter-bomber, Charles Lindbergh—the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean—flies a bombing mission in an F4U as a civilian consultant with United Aircraft, dropping one 2,000-lb (907-kg) and two 1,000-pound (454-kg) bombs on Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/September_in_aviation/September_2

1945 – At the conclusion of the surrender ceremony aboard the U. S. Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, in which Japan formally surrenders to the Allies to end World War II, 450 Allied carrier planes and several hundred U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft perform a victory fly-by over the ships in the bay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender#Flags_at_the_ceremony

1947 - 1st flight of the Breguet Br 731, French 4 engined transport flying boat prototype, re-engined version of the Breguet Br 730.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1887 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_730

1947 - 1st flight of The Hawker Sea Hawk (private venture P.1040), British single-seat jet fighter for the Fleet air Arm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Sea_Hawk

1948 - Australian National Airways Douglas DC-3 'Lutana' crashed into high terrain due to navigation equipment errors, killing all 13 on board near Nundle, New South Wales, Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Lutana_crash

1948 - Birth of Christa McAuliffe, American teacher and NASA Astronaut, one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe

1949 - 1st flight of The de Havilland DH 112 Venom, British postwar single-engined jet fighter Bomber developed from the de Havilland Vampire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Venom

1953 - Birth of Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele, German physicist and ESA Astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Thiele

1953 - A world record speed of 690mph over a 100 kilometre closed course is set by Brigadier General J. Stanley Holtoner of the United States Air Force (USAF), flying a North American F86D Sabre fighter at Ohio.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1953.aspx

1956 - A Bell H-13H flown by an Army pilot stayed in the air for 57hr and 50min, an unofficial world's record

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/bell_47d.php

1956 - 1st direct transatlantic flight by a 'V-bomber', a Vickers Valiant, is made between Lowring Air Force Base in Maine and RAF Marham in a time of 6 hours 25 minutes.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1956.aspx

1958 – A USAF C-130A-II is shot down by 4 MiG-17s over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-130_Hercules_crashes#1950s

1958 - Independent Air Travel Vickers VC.1 Viking cargo flight reported engine problems just after takeoff from Heathrow and requested a return to Blackbushe Airport. Pilot error following engine failure conducted to a crash into a row of houses on Kelvin Gardens, Southall, killing all 3 crew and 4 people, a mother and 3 children, on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_London_Vickers_Viking_accident

1966 - During the Canadian International Air Show (Toronto, Ontario), US Navy Blue Angels pilot Lt. Cmdr. Dick Oliver was killed when he crashed his F-11 Tiger into a breakwater at Toronto Island Airport

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_show_accidents_and_incidents#1966

1978 - Death of Charles F. Blair, Jr., American WWII Pilot, USAF Brigadier General, US Navy aviator, test pilot, airline pilot, and airline owner. Killed in the crash into ocean due to an engine failure of his Grumman Goose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Blair,_Jr.#Death

1981 - Death of Antonio Gallus, Italian Air force pilot, killed in his Fiat G-91 while training with the Aerobatic team Frecce Tricolori, colliding with another plane.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gallus - http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecce_Tricolori#Piloti_Caduti

1986 - Henk and Evelyn Brink of the Netherlands make a record-breaking flight across the Atlantic in a Cameron combined hot-air/helium balloon. They fly from St Johns in Newfoundland to near Amsterdam in around 50 hours

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1986.aspx

1995 - A RAF Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2P stalled during a low altitude turn and crashed into Lake Ontario during the Canadian International Air Show, Killing all 7 on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_show_accidents_and_incidents#1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_International_Air_Show#Accidents_and_incidents_during_air_display

1996 - Soyuz TM-23, Russian mission to MIR, is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-23

1998 - Permtransavia Antonov AN-26B is shot down by UNITA rebels near Malanje Airport Angola. All 24 people on board were killed.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980902-1

1998 - 1st flight of The Boeing 717, American twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner, developed for the 100-seat market, designed and marketed by McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95, a 3rd-generation derivative of the DC-9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_717

1998 – Swissair Flight 111 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

2006 – A Royal Air Force Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 NATO reconnaissance plane, crashes near Kandahar, Afghanistan after a fire and explosion caused by a fuel leak. All 14 crew on board are killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Nimrod_XV230

2008 – ExpressJet Airlines ended operations as an independent carrier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressJet_Airlines

2009 - Andhra Pradesh Government Bell 430 crashed near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India, after a Spatial disorientation resulting from a mechanical failure, Killing all 5 on board including Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Andhra_Pradesh_Chief_Minister_helicopter_crash

2010 - A NASA Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), succesfully flew into hurricane "Earl".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk#NASA

2011 - Chilean Air Force Casa C-212 Aviocar 300DF crashed on its third approach (due to strong winds) into the sea off Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, Killing all 21.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chilean_Air_Force_CASA_212_crash