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
[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-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
[edit] July
- July 2 - Crash of Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 at Rochester, New York, killed 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 - Tupolev 124 ditching in Neva river, Leningrad, Soviet Union without 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
January
February
March
April
May
- May 27 - McDonell F-4C Phantom II (USAF version)
June
August
- August 1 - PZL-104 Wilga (Wilga 2 prototype)
- August 20 - BAC One-Eleven
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
