• 1 Events
  • 1.1 January
  • 1.2 February
  • 1.3 March
  • 1.4 April
  • 1.5 June
  • 1.6 July
  • 1.7 August
  • 1.8 September
  • 1.9 October
  • 1.10 November
  • 1.11 December
• 2 First flights
  • 2.1 February
  • 2.2 March
  • 2.3 May
  • 2.4 June
  • 2.5 September
  • 2.6 October
  • 2.7 December
• 3 Entered service
• 4 Retirements
• 5 References

Events

• OceanAir – the future Azores Airlines – suspends operations. It will resume flight operations in April 1998 as SATA International.

January

• January 20 – Qatar Airways begins operations.

February

• February 1 – The Government of Colombia's Administrative Department of Civil Aeronautics is abolished. Simultaneously, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics begins operations, taking over the former department's role as Colombia′s national civil aviation authority.
• February 6 – In the wake of the Markale massacre the previous day in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali formally requests that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) confirm that it would carry out air strikes against Army of Republika Srpska positions around Sarajevo immediately.^[1]
• February 9 – NATO authorizes the Commander of Allied Forces Southern Europe, United States Navy Admiral Jeremy Boorda, to launch air strikes against Army of Republika Srpska artillery and mortar positions in and around Sarajevo that the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) determined were responsible for attacks against civilian targets.^[2][3]
• February 28 – In an incident near Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first combat operation in the history of NATO takes place when two United States Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcons operating in NATO's Operation Deny Flight – enforcement of a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina – engage six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb light attack aircraft which had just bombed Novi Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, shooting down four of them.

March

• Alaska Airlines retires its last Boeing 727.
• March 7 – The Japanese Nihon Aero Student Group's Yuri I makes the second human-powered helicopter flight in history and the first since December 1989, setting an endurance record of 19.46 seconds at