1946 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1946:
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- January 1 - a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian becomes the first commercial flight to depart Heathrow Airport
- January 10 - a Sikorsky R5 sets an unofficial helicopter altitude record of 6,400 m (21,000 ft) at Stratford, Connecticut.
- January 26 - Col William Councill sets a new US transcontinental speed record of 4 hours 13 minutes in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
[edit] February
- February 6 - TWA makes its first international flight, from New York to Paris
- March 8 - the Bell 47 receives the first type certificate awarded to a commercial helicopter.
- February 11 - U.S. and British negotiators reach the Bermuda Agreement, the first bilateral agreement regulating air transport. The two countries agree to fix transatlantic air fares through the International Air Transport Association.
[edit] June
- June 15 - the Navy's new Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, gives its first public performance at Craig Field in Jacksonville, Florida.
- June 21 - a USAF P-80 Shooting Star carries the first airmail flown by jet.
[edit] July
- July 1 - a B-29 Superfortress drops an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in a nuclear test.
- July 21 - a McDonnell FH Phantom makes the first landing by a jet aboard a US aircraft carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
[edit] September
- September 27 - Geoffrey de Havilland Jr is killed when the de Havilland DH.108 breaks up in mid-air
- September 29 - a Lockheed P2V Neptune sets a new distance record of 11,235 miles (18,082 km)
[edit] October
- October 3 – A Berlin-bound 4 engine Douglas C-54 named 'Flagship New England' crashed into a mountainside outside of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The flight, operated by American Overseas Airlines was mostly carrying wives and children of US Army personnel serving in post-war Germany. All 39 people on board died. At the time, it was the worst accident of its kind among US civilian airlines.
[edit] November
- November 23 - An Avro Lancastrian powered with Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets is credited with the first international passenger jet flight from London to Paris. The flight time was just 41 minutes.
[edit] First flights
January
- January 19 - Bell X-1 (unpowered)
April
- April 24 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-300, the Soviet Union's first jet
- April 24 - Yakovlev Yak-15 (three hours after the I-300)
May
- May 17 - Douglas XB-43, first US jet bomber
June
- June 7 - Short Sturgeon prototype RK787
- June 25 - Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber
July
- July 7 - Hughes XF-11
- July 27 - Supermarine Attacker prototype TS409
August
September
- September 11 - Lavochkin La-150
- September 11 - North American XFJ-1, prototype of the FJ Fury, the first jet aircraft to enter service with the US Navy
November
- November 11 - SNCASO SO-6000 Triton, France's first jet
- November 13 - Sukhoi Su-9
- November 16 - Saab Scandia prototype SE-BCA
December
[edit] Entered service
September
- September 30 - Short S.26 with BOAC Golden Hind (G-AFCI)
