This is a list of
aviation
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-related events from 1964:
Events
*
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
an President
Jorge Alessandri
Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez (; 19 May 1896 – 31 August 1986) was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador All ...
grants the
Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy ( es, Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense. Its headquarters are at Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso.
History
Origins and the Wars ...
the authority to operate all types of aircraft without restriction. It is the first time that the navy has administrative control of all naval aircraft since 1930.
January
* January 13 – A
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...
B-52D Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air ...
carrying two Mark 53
nuclear bomb
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
s loses its
vertical stabilizer
A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed surface and one or more movable rudders hinged to it. Their role is to provide control, sta ...
in
turbulence
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during a winter storm and
crashes on Savage Mountain near
Barton, Maryland
Barton is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, located along the Georges Creek Valley. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 457 at the 2010 census.
History
The Reverend William S ...
. Only two of the five crewmen survive. The bombs are recovered two days later.
* January 22 – In its first public violation of the 1959 requirement for all aircraft operating from the
aircraft carrier
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''Minas Gerais'' to belong to the
Brazilian Air Force
"Wings that protect the country"
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, the
Brazilian Navy
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steams ''Minas Gerais'' into
Guanabara Bay
Guanabara Bay ( pt, Baía de Guanabara, ) is an oceanic bay located in Southeast Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. On its western shore lie the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Duque de Caxias, and on its eastern shore the cities of Niterói and ...
at
Rio de Janeiro
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with four navy
T-28 Trojan
The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, ...
trainers
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on her
flight deck
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.
[Scheina, Robert L., ''Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987'', Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, , p. 197.]
* January 28 – A
Soviet
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MiG-19
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft, the world's first mass-produced supersonic aircraft. It was the ...
shoots down a
T-39 Sabreliner
The North American Sabreliner, later sold as the Rockwell Sabreliner, is an American mid-sized business jet developed by North American Aviation. It was offered to the United States Air Force (USAF) in response to its Utility Trainer Experimen ...
which had accidentally entered
East German
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airspace, killing all three men aboard the T-39.
February
* February 3
**The
North Vietnamese Air Force
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establishes its first jet fighter unit, Fighter Regiment No. 921, equipped with
MiG-17
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 w ...
s. North Vietnamese jet fighter units will be based in the People's Republic of China until August while their pilots undergo training.
**A
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines ( Turkish: ''Türk Hava Yolları'') is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey. , it operates scheduled services to 340 destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, making it the largest mainline carrier in the w ...
Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain on a cargo flight
crashes in
Ankara Province
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Demographics
History
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, Turkey, while on approach to
Esenboğa Airport in
Ankara
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, killing the entire crew of three.
* February 7 – The Canadian
Golden Hawks
The Golden Hawks were a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) aerobatic flying team established in 1959 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the RCAF and the "Golden" 50th anniversary of Canadian flight, which began with the AEA Silver Dart in 1909.
...
aerobatic
Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...
team is disbanded.
* February 15
**The North Vietnamese Air Force scores its first aerial victory against an American aircraft when a North Vietnamese
T-28 Trojan
The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, ...
armed
trainer shoots down a
C-123 Provider
The Fairchild C-123 Provider is an American military transport aircraft designed by Chase Aircraft and then built by Fairchild Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. In addition to its USAF service, which included later service with the Air Force Rese ...
transport plane.
**American professional
baseball
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player
Ken Hubbs
Kenneth Douglass Hubbs (December 23, 1941 – February 13, 1964) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs from to . Hubbs died at age 22 when the private plane he w ...
of the
Chicago Cubs
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and his passenger are killed when the
Cessna 172D Skyhawk he is piloting crashes in adverse weather near
Provo,
Utah
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.
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* February 19 – French troops are airlifted to Gabon
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to put down a coup by the army.
* February 25 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 304
Eastern Air Lines Flight 304, a Douglas DC-8 flying from New Orleans International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport, crashed on February 25, 1964. All 51 passengers and 7 crew were killed. Among the dead were American singer an ...
, a Douglas DC-8
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After losing the May 1954 US Air Force tanker competition to the Boeing KC-135, Douglas announced in Ju ...
, crashes into Lake Pontchartrain
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20 miles (32 km) northeast of , nine minutes after taking off from New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( French: ''Aéroport international Louis Armstrong de La Nouvelle-Orléans'') is an international airport under Class B airspace in Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is ...
, killing all 58 people on board. Among the dead is the American singer and actor Kenneth Spencer.
* February 28 – A U.S. Navy helicopter of Utility Helicopter Squadron 1 (HU-1) lands on the deck of the combat stores ship
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, beginning the true incorporation of helicopters into the fleets logistic support system after experiments dating back to 1959.
* February 29 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
reveals the existence of the CIA
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's Lockheed A-12
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reconnaissance aircraft
March
* March 5 – Somali Airlines
Somali Airlines was the flag carrier of Somalia. Established in 1964, it offered flights to both domestic and international destinations. It operated Boeing 720Bs, Boeing 707-300s and Airbus A310-300s on a network to the Middle East and Europe ...
is founded as the national airline
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Hist ...
of Somalia
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. It will begin flight operations in July
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.
* March 19 – American Jerrie Mock
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the '' Spirit of Columbus'' an ...
departs Columbus
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* Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus may also refer to:
Places ...
, Ohio
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, in the Cessna 180
The Cessna 180 Skywagon is a four- or six-seat, fixed conventional gear general aviation airplane which was produced between 1953 and 1981. Though the design is no longer in production, many of these aircraft are still in use as personal aircr ...
''The Spirit of Columbus'' (registration N1538C), nicknamed "''Charlie''," in an attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
April
* becomes the first aircraft carrier assigned to Point Yankee, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier operating area in the Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It has a total surface area of . It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern ...
off North Vietnam
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. Point Yankee will become unofficially but universally known as "Yankee Station
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primari ...
" and will remain in use until August 1973.
* Braniff Airways
Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until air operations ceased, was an airline in the United States that once flew air carrier operations from 1928 un ...
makes deposits on two Boeing Supersonic Transports (SSTs). Thanks to the cancellation of the SST program in 1971, it will never take delivery of the aircraft.
* Air Djibouti
Air Djibouti, also known as Red Sea Airlines, is the flag carrier of Djibouti. It first flew in 1963 and ceased all operations in 2002. In 2015, the airline was relaunched, first as a cargo airline and then, in 2016, with passenger services as we ...
begins flight operations.
* April 17
**Middle East Airlines
Middle East Airlines – Air Liban S.A.L. ( ar, طيران الشرق الأوسط ـ الخطوط الجوية اللبنانية ''Ṭayyarān al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ – al-Khuṭūṭ al-jawiyyah al-lubnāniyyah''), more commonly known as Middle ...
Flight 444, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, crashes into the Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...
while on approach to Dhahran International Airport
Dhahran ( ar, الظهران, ''Al-Dhahran'') is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 240,742 as of 2021, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cit ...
in Dhahran
Dhahran ( ar, الظهران, ''Al-Dhahran'') is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 240,742 as of 2021, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cit ...
, Saudi Arabia
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, killing all 49 people on board. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Saudi Arabian history at the time.
**American Jerrie Mock
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the '' Spirit of Columbus'' an ...
arrives in Columbus
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* Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus may also refer to:
Places ...
, Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, in the Cessna 180
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''The Spirit of Columbus'' (registration N1538C), nicknamed "''Charlie''," completing a solo round-the-world flight and becoming the first woman to fly around the world. The journey has taken 29 days, required 21 stopovers, and covered almost .
**The U.S. Air Force completes Operation Helping Hand, an airlift begun on March 28 that has brought 1,850 short ton
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although the term is ambiguous, the single word being variously used for short, long, and metric ton.
The vari ...
s (1,678 metric ton
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s) of relief equipment and supplies to Anchorage
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, Alaska
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, in the aftermath of a massive earthquake there.[Haulman, Daniel L., ''One Hundred Years of Flight: USAF Chronology of Significant Air and Space Events, 1903-2002'', Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 2003, no ISBN number, p. 93.](_blank)
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* April 21 – A Middle East Airlines Vickers 754D Viscount is damaged beyond economical repair while taxiing at El Arish
ʻArish or el-ʻArīsh ( ar, العريش ' , ''Hrinokorura'') is the capital and largest city (with 164,830 inhabitants ) of the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, as well as the largest city on the entire Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediter ...
, Egypt
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, when the taxiway collapses beneath it, severely damaging its fuselage
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, engines, and propeller
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s.
May
* United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...
and United States Navy
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aircraft begin Operation Yankee Team
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primari ...
reconnaissance
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Examples of reconnaissance include patrolling by troops (skirmisher ...
flights over Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
.[Nichols, CDR John B., and Barret Tillman, ''On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War Over Vietnam'', Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1987, , p. 151.]
* The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
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assign search-and-rescue
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responsibilities in Southeast Asia
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to the U.S. Air Force.
* May 2 – A North Vietnam
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ese frogman
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sinks the U.S. Navy aviation transport – formerly the escort aircraft carrier
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– pierside while she unloads helicopters at Saigon
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, South Vietnam. She soon is refloated and repaired.
* May 7 – Francisco Paula Gonzales shoots both the pilot and copilot of Pacific Air Lines Flight 773
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, a Fairchild F27A Friendship, before turning the gun on himself, causing the plane to crash near San Ramon, California
San Ramon (Spanish: ''San Ramón'', meaning "St. Raymond") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located within the San Ramon Valley, and east of San Francisco. San Ramon's population was 84,605 per the 2020 census, maki ...
. All 44 aboard are killed. The crash is likely the first instance in the United States of an airliners pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a mass murder/suicide.
* May 9 – An F-105B Thunderchief (serial number ''57-5801'') operated by the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron (the Thunderbirds) disintegrates during a six- G tactical pitch-up for landing after an air display at Hamilton Air Force Base Hamilton may refer to:
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, California
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, killing its pilot. The accident prompts the U.S. Air Force to ground all F-105s and retrofit them with a structural brace. The Thunderbirds revert to using the F-100 Super Sabre
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and never fly another show in F-105s.
* May 11 –
** Jackie Cochran sets a new women's airspeed record of 1,429 mph (2,300 km/h) in an F-104 Starfighter
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic air superiority fighter which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fi ...
.
**North American Aviation
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rolls out the United States Air Force
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′s first XB-70A Valkyrie – named Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1) – at Palmdale
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On Aug ...
, California
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.
* May 21 – Pathet Lao
The Pathet Lao ( lo, ປະເທດລາວ, translit=Pa thēt Lāo, translation=Lao Nation), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century. The gro ...
antiaircraft artillery
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damages a U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader photographic reconnaissance
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aircraft over Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
. The RF-8A, flown by Lieutenant Charles F. Klusmann, burns for 20 minutes in the air but lands safely aboard the aircraft carrier
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.[Polmar, Norman, "Historic Aircraft: The Last Photo Plane," ''Naval History'', October 2010, p. 64.]
June
* The Indian Air Force
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s Aircraft Manufacturing Depot at Kanpur
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is incorporated as Aeronautics (India) Ltd. It later will become the Kanpur Division of Hindustan Aeronautics
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.
* Aero Trasporti Italiani
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(ATI), a subsidiary of Alitalia
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, begins flight operations. ATI takes over secondary domestic routes in Italy
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formerly operated by the Alitalia subsidiary Società Aerea Mediterranea
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(SAM).
* June 1
** Flying a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter
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, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran sets a women's world speed record of 1,303.24 mph (2,098.62 km/hr). The flight brings to an end a longstanding competition between Cochran and Jacqueline Auriol
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Biography
Born in Challans, Vendée, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, Edmond Pierre Douet, she graduate ...
in which they broke many of one another's women's speed records.
**The Kenyan Air Force
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The main airbase operating fighters is Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, while Moi Air Base
Moi Air Base, formerly know ...
is established.
**Trans World Airlines
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begins Boeing 727
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After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airpo ...
service.
* June 6
** Over Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
, Pathet Lao
The Pathet Lao ( lo, ປະເທດລາວ, translit=Pa thēt Lāo, translation=Lao Nation), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century. The gro ...
antiaircraft artillery
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shoots down a U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader photographic reconnaissance
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aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Charles F. Klusmann. It is the first U.S. Navy aircraft and first American fixed-wing aircraft
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lost over Indochina
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in the Vietnam War
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era.
** Silver City Airways
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announces that it has airlifted its one millionth car between England and continental Europe.
* June 19
**An Aero Commander 680
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flying from Washington, D.C.
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, with United States Senator
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Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy aboard as a passenger crashes in an apple orchard in Southampton
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, , while on final approach
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in bad weather to Barnes Municipal Airport
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in Westfield, Massachusetts. The crash kills the pilot and one of Kennedy's aides. Suffering a severe back injury, a punctured lung
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, broken ribs, and internal bleeding, Kennedy is pulled from the wreckage by U.S. Senator Birch Bayh
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. Kennedy will be hospitalized until December and suffer chronic back pain for the rest of his life as a result of his injuries.
**The Portuguese
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** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
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** Portu ...
airline ''Transportes Aéreos Portugueses'' (TAP) – the future TAP Portugal
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– carries its one millionth passenger, 18 years after beginning flight operations.
* June 20 – , a Curtiss C-46-CU["Ci - Cz"]
Airplane Crash Info. run by the Taiwan
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ese airline Civil Air Transport
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, crashes near the village of Shenkang in western Taiwan, killing all 57 people aboard. Among the dead are 20 Americans, one Briton, and members of the Malaysia
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n delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho
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and his wife Mavis.
July
* Somalia
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's national airline
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Hist ...
, Somali Airlines
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, begins flight operations, serving domestic routes in Somalia with a fleet of three Douglas DC-3
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manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.
It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version ...
s and two Cessna 180
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s.
* July 6 – U.S. Marine Corps UH-34D transport helicopters airlift a 93-man relief force during the Battle of Nam Dong
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in South Vietnam
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.
* July 9 – United Airlines Flight 823
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, a Vicker Viscount 745D, catches fire in flight and crashes two miles (3.2 km) northeast of Parrottsville, Tennessee
Parrottsville is a town in Cocke County, Tennessee, Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 263 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Parrottsville is located in northeastern Cocke County at (36.009391, -83.091186) U.S. Route 321, a f ...
, killing all 39 people on board. One of the passengers jumps from the burning plane through an escape door and is killed in the fall.
* July 31
**A. H. Parker sets a new sailplane
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distance record of 1,000 km (621 mi) in a Sisu-1A.
**Country music
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star Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman ...
and his manager die in the crash of a Beechcraft Debonair
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Reeves is piloting near Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood is a city in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 45,373 as of the 2020 United States census.[United States Air Force
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tests the concept of a fixed-wing gunship
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In modern usage the term "gunship" refers to fixed-wing aircraft having laterally-mo ...
, converting a Convair C-131B Samaritan to fire a single GAU-2/A Minigun at a downward angle out of the left side of the aircraft at ground targets. Tests of the gunship at Eglin Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County.
The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing). The ...
, Florida
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, demonstrate that such an aircraft flying a pylon turn
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easily can hit a stationary area with great accuracy even when using only a primitive targeting system.
* August 2 – The Tonkin Gulf Incident
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occurs. U.S. Navy
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aircraft are involved in skirmishes in the Gulf of Tonkin
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. F-8 Crusader
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s sink a North Vietnamese torpedo boat
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.
* August 5 – In Operation Pierce Arrow
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In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the destroyers and of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships, sustaining light damage as ...
, U.S. Navy aircraft from the attack aircraft carriers and attack North Vietnamese torpedo boat
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bases, spearheading direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
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. They are the first bombing raids launched from Yankee Station
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.
* August 6 – The first North Vietnamese Air Force
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jet fighter unit, Fighter Regiment No. 921 (the "Red Star Squadron"), arrives in North Vietnam after training in the People's Republic of China, bringing 36 MiG-17
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and MiG-19
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fighters to Phúc Yên Air Base
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near Hanoi
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.
* August 7
**The United States Congress
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passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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It is of historic significance because it gave U.S. pre ...
, authorizing President
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President may also refer to:
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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to use conventional military force in Southeast Asia
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.
**American aircraft begin photographic reconnaissance
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flights over North Vietnam
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.
* August 7–9 – The Turkish Air Force
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strikes Greek positions on Cyprus
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* August 23 – Greek Air Force
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F-4 Phantom II
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s are recalled while en route to attack Turkish military positions.
September
* Kingdom of Libya Airlines – the future Libyan Airlines
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– is founded. It will begin flight operations in August 1965.
* September 21 – The United States Air Force
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′s first North American XB-70A Valkyrie – named Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1) – makes its first flight, flying from Palmdale
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On Aug ...
to Edwards Air Force Base
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, California
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. The crew has to shut down one of its six engines shortly after takeoff, and it makes the flight with its landing gear
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down due to a landing gear malfunction, limiting the Mach 3+-capable aircraft to a top speed of 390 mph (628 km/hr), only about half what was planned for the flight.
October
* October 1 – Derby Airways changes its name to British Midland Airways
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.
* October 10 – Skywriters draw the Olympic rings
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over Tokyo
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, Japan
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, during the opening ceremonies of the 1964 Summer Olympics
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.
* October 12 – On its third test flight, the United States Air Force
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′s first North American XB-70A Valkyrie – named Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1) – reaches supersonic speeds for the first time.
* October 13 – The first production Learjet, a Model 23, is delivered.
* October 16 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
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.
* October 23
**U.S. Navy aircraft begin providing cover for Laotian government forces.
** American rock musician David Box
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dies in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk
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, Texas
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. The other three people aboard the plane also die.
* October 24 – On its fourth test flight, the U.S. Air Force's first North American XB-70A Valkyrie – Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1) – flies at speeds above Mach 1 for 40 minutes.
* October 26 – United Airlines
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, Idaho
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.
* October 30 – The North American Air Defense Command
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begins manning its Combat Operations Center in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex
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in Colorado
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.
* October 31 – A snow goose
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strikes the T-38 Talon
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The United States Air Force (USAF) operates the most ...
flown by American astronaut
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Theodore Freeman
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on approach to Ellington Air Force Base
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in Houston
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, Texas
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, causing immediate engine failure. Freeman ejects too close to the ground for his parachute
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to deploy and is killed.
November
* November 1 – Viet Cong
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, active ...
infiltrators stage a mortar attack on Bien Hoa Air Base
Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnamese: ''Sân bay Biên Hòa'') is a Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) military airfield located in South-Central southern Vietnam about from Ho Chi Minh City, across the Dong Nai river in the northern ward of Tân Phon ...
in South Vietnam, destroying five U.S. Air Force B-57 Canberra
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bombers, a U.S. Air Force HH-43F helicopter, and four Republic of Vietnam Air Force
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A-1 Skyraider
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attack aircraft, and damaging 15 B-57s and some HH-43Fs.
* November 2 – A U.S. Air Force HH-43F helicopter based at Bien Hoa Air Base
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, South Vietnam, conducts the first night rescue by the Air Forces Air-Sea Rescue Service in Southeast Asia
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.
* November 4 – The first automatic blind landing by a passenger aircraft occurs when a British European Airways
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BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The a ...
Hawker Siddeley Trident
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lands in dense fog.
* November 15 – Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114
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, while on approach to McCarran International Airport
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in Las Vegas
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, in poor weather conditions, killing all 29 people on board. It will be the only fatal accident in the 23-year history of Bonanza Air Lines
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.
* November 18 – The U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
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MACV was created on 8 February 1962, in response to the increase in United States military assistance to South Vietnam. MACV ...
, provides 105 United States Army
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helicopters to assist in transporting 7,000 South Vietnamese Army
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troops to attack a concentration of Viet Cong guerrillas believed to occupy a forest in South Vietnam 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Saigon
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near Thủ Dầu Một
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in the largest attack thus far of the Vietnam War
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. The South Vietnamese troops find no Viet Cong in the area and assess that they had withdrawn at least three days earlier.[Grose, Peter, "VIETNAMESE SEND 7,000 INTO ATTACK," nytimes.com, November 20, 1964.]
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* November 19 – Seventeen U.S. helicopters transport 54 South Vietnamese troops to attack Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province. The South Vietnamese reportedly kill 17 Viet Cong and capture 21.[
* November 20 – ]Linjeflyg Flight 277
Linjeflyg Flight 267V was a controlled flight into terrain by a Convair 440-75 Metropolitan on 20 November 1964 at 21:14 in Ängelholm, Skåne, Sweden. The Linjeflyg pilots, misled by a non-conventional military runway light configuration, desc ...
, a Convair CV-340 Metropolitan, crashes at Ängelholm
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History
The old settlement ''Rynestad'' was mentioned around the year 1600.
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, Sweden, during its approach to a Swedish Air Force
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History
The Swedish Air Force was created on 1 July, 1926 when the aircraft units of the Army and Navy were merged. Because of the es ...
base which is now Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport. Thirty-one of the 43 people on board die, and all 12 survivors are injured.
* November 23 – Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 707-331, crashes on takeoff from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
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in Rome, Italy, due to engine failure, killing 50 of the 73 people on board and injuring all 23 survivors.
* November 26 – Belgian paratroops are dropped into Congo by the United States Air Force
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.
December
* President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
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of Brazil ends the impasse over whether the Brazilian Air Force
"Wings that protect the country"
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or the Brazilian Navy
)
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, march= "Cisne Branco" ( en, "White Swan") (same name as training ship ''Cisne Branco''
, mascot=
, equipment= 1 multipurpose aircraft carrier7 submarines6 frigates2 corvettes4 amphibious warf ...
should control aircraft operated from the aircraft carrier
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''Minas Gerais'', assigning the responsibility to the navy. The air minister resigns and his successor is fired, and air force personnel machine-gun
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a naval helicopter on the ground at Porto Alegre
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in protest.
* December 8 – A United States Air Force
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B-58 Hustler
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The B-58 was developed during the 1950s for the United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air ...
carrying a nuclear bomb
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catches fire while taxiing at Bunker Hill Air Force Base
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in Indiana
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. The fire burns the bomb, causing radioactive contamination of the immediate area.
* December 14 – The U.S. Air Force launches Operation Barrel Roll
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, armed reconnaissance flights attacking the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos
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.
* December 23–24 (overnight) – The first combat use of a fixed-wing gunship
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takes place when a U.S. Air Force minigun
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-armed Douglas FC-47 is called in to defend a United States Army
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Special Forces
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camp at Tranh Yend in South Vietnam
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's Mekong Delta
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that is under attack by the Viet Cong
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, active ...
. It drops parachute flare
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s and fires 4,500 rounds, scattering the attackers. Twenty minutes later, it breaks up a Viet Cong attack against another camp at Trung Hung. The success of the FC-47 results in the deployment of additional aircraft of its type, redesignated as the AC-47
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and widely nicknamed "Spooky" and "Puff the Magic Dragon."
* December 24 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 282
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, a Lockheed Super Constellation
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cargo aircraft
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, crashes in San Bruno, California
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, shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport
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, killing the entire crew of three.
First flights
* American Champion Citabria
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* Beriev Be-1
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Design and development
In 1956, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini approached the Beriev design bureau with a proposal for a Wing-In-Gr ...
(first flight from water)
January
* January 5 – Shorts Belfast ''XR362'' ''G-ASKE''
* January 20 – Beechcraft King Air
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[Donald, David, ed., ''The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft'', New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, , p. 102.]
March
* March 3 – Super Caravelle, Sud-Aviation Super Caravelle
* March 7
** Hawker Siddeley Kestrel
** Helwan HA-300
April
* April 9 – de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
* April 10 – EWR VJ 101, EWR VJ 101C, the world's first supersonic V/STOL aircraft
* April 21 – HFB 320 Hansa Jet
* April 30 – Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter with the United States Air Force
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s 4441st Combat Crew Training Squadron
May
* May 1 – BAC Type 221
* May 25 – Ryan XV-5
June
* June 26 – Curtiss-Wright X-19
July
* July 15 – Aviomilano F.250 ''I-RAIE'', prototype of the Aermacchi SF.260, SIAI Marchetti SF.260
* July 17 – Beagle B.206 Basset Series 1, civil version of the Beagle Basset
August
* August 27 – Beagle B.218, Beagle B.242 ''G-ASTX''
September
* September 4 – HAL Kiran, HAL HJT-16 Kiran
* September 21 – North American XB-70A Valkyrie
* September 24 – Mooney M22 Mustang
* September 27 – BAC TSR.2 ''XR219''
* September 29 – LTV-Hiller-Ryan XC-142
* September 30 – Piper PA-31 Navajo
October
* Cessna YAT-37D, prototype of the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly
* October 2 – Piaggio P.166, Piaggio P.166C
* October 14 – Sikorsky CH-53, Sikorsky YCH-53
* October 19 – Agusta A.101 ''MM80358 FF''
* October 24 – Alon A-2 Aircoupe
* October 30 – Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, Bell Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
November
* November 1 – Agusta A.105
* November 7 – Robin DR.200
* November 18 – C-2 Greyhound
* November 25 – Convair Model 48 Charger
December
* December 8 – Turbay T-3
* December 21 – General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
* December 22 – SR-71 Blackbird
Entered service
* American Champion Citabria
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* Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight, Boeing Vertol UH-46A Sea Knight with the United States Navy
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* Sukhoi Su-11 (NATO reporting name "Fishpot-C") with the Soviet Air Forces and Soviet Air Defense Forces
* Westland Wasp with the Royal Navy
* Mid-1964 – Lightning F.3, third production model of the English Electric Lightning, with No. 74 Squadron RAF, No. 74 Squadron, Royal Air Force
* Late 1964 – Beechcraft King Air
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February
* Dassault Mirage IV with ''Armée de l'Air''
* February 1 – Boeing 727
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After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airpo ...
with Eastern Air Lines
April
* April 29 – Vickers VC10 with BOAC
May
* May 13 – Beagle B.206 Basset Series 1, civil version of the Beagle Basset, with Rolls Royce Limited
June
* June 1 – Convair CV-240 family, Convair CV-580 Super Convair with Frontier Airlines[Donald, David, ed., ''The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft'', New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, , p. 273.]
Retirements
* Avro York by Skyways (airline), Skyways and Dan Air
* December 13 – Handley Page Hermes by Air Links, Ltd.
References
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