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100th Air Refueling Wing
The 100th Air Refueling Wing is a United States Air Force unit at RAF Mildenhall, England, the only permanent U.S. air refueling wing in Europe, flying KC-135 tankers.
12th Combat Aviation Brigade
The 12th Combat Aviation Brigade is a US Army combat aviation brigade headquartered at Katterbach Army Airfield near Ansbach, Germany, supporting V Corps across Europe and Africa.
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), known as the Night Stalkers, is the US Army's special operations aviation unit, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
16th Combat Aviation Brigade (United States)
The 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, known as the Raptor Brigade, is a US Army combat aviation brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division and focused on the Indo-Pacific.
176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (176-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный полк)
The 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was a Soviet Air Force fighter regiment formed in 1938, made a Guards unit in 1944, and disbanded in 1960.
17th Cavalry Regiment
The 17th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army regiment constituted in 1916 at Fort Bliss, Texas, best known for its air cavalry squadrons in the Vietnam War.
1902 in aviation
The year 1902 in aviation saw the Wright brothers' third glider, the first aircraft with three-axis control, plus the first fatal airship crash over Paris.
1903 in aviation
1903 in aviation saw Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first controlled, sustained powered flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, while Langley's Aerodrome failed twice.
1914 in aviation
1914 in aviation saw the world's first scheduled airline flight, the St Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line, and the first aerial victories after World War I began in August.
1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash
The 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash was an in-flight wing failure near Bazaar, Kansas, on March 31, 1931, killing all eight aboard, including coach Knute Rockne.
1936 KLM Croydon accident
The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM Douglas DC-2 in fog after takeoff from Croydon Airport, London, on 9 December 1936, killing 15.
1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash
The 1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash killed all 11 aboard a Belgian airliner flying from Munich to London that struck a chimney in fog near Ostend.
1941 in aviation
A chronicle of aviation in 1941, when the Second World War became a global air war and jet propulsion, ejection seats, and helicopters saw major wartime development.
1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash
The 1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash was the loss of Handley Page Halifax V9977 near Welsh Bicknor on 7 June 1942, killing all eleven aboard, including engineer Alan Blumlein.
1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash
The 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash occurred when a US Army B-25 bomber, lost in fog, struck the building on July 28, 1945, killing 14 people.
1945 in aviation
1945 in aviation was the final year of World War II air operations, marked by German Me 262 jet combat, a 60 percent jump in US airline traffic, and the founding of PICAO.
1952 Farnborough Airshow crash
The 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash was the mid-air break-up of a de Havilland DH.110 prototype at Farnborough, England, killing 31 people, the deadliest UK airshow accident.
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
The 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, on June 30, 1956, killed all 128 aboard a TWA and a United airliner over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash
The 1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash was the in-flight break-up of the first Avro Vulcan prototype, VX770, during an airshow at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, on 20 September 1958.
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
The 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision, also known as the Tybee Island B-47 crash, occurred when a B-47 bomber hit an F-86 fighter near Savannah, Georgia, in 1958.
1960 New York mid-air collision
The 1960 New York mid-air collision, also called the Park Slope plane crash, killed 134 people when two airliners collided over Staten Island on December 16, 1960.
1960 U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident was the Soviet shooting down of a CIA U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960, and the capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers.
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was a U.S. accident in which a B-52 broke up over North Carolina in 1961, dropping two thermonuclear bombs that did not detonate.
1967 USS Forrestal fire
The 1967 USS Forrestal fire was a flight-deck disaster off Vietnam on July 29, 1967, when an accidentally launched Zuni rocket ignited jet fuel and bomb explosions, killing 134.
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash was a nuclear weapons accident in which a US B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed onto sea ice near Thule, Greenland, on 21 January 1968.
1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
The 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident was the downing of a US Navy reconnaissance aircraft by North Korean fighters over the Sea of Japan on April 15, 1969, killing all 31 crewmen.
1971 Indian Airlines hijacking
The 1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, known as the Ganga hijacking, saw two Kashmiri separatists seize a Srinagar-to-Jammu flight to Lahore on 30 January 1971; India then banned Pakistani overflights.
1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash
The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash destroyed a Soviet supersonic airliner at Le Bourget on 3 June 1973, killing all six crew and seven people on the ground.
1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait
The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait evacuated about 170,000 Indians after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, mostly by road to Amman and home by Air India.
1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision
The 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision occurred at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on December 3, 1990, when a Boeing 727 struck a taxiing DC-9 in dense fog, killing 8.