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Years:	1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:

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June 17 - Pan American World Airways begins a New York City to San Francisco service flying east-to-west around most of the entire globe.
June 19 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-powered aircraft during World War II).

July 3 - The Philippine Air Force is formed.
July 15 - Northwest Airlines launches the first commercial passenger service from the U.S.A. to Asia's Far East along the North Pacific route with Douglas DC-4 The Manila, linking Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) and Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Manila (Philippines) by way of Edmonton (Canada) (technical stop), Anchorage (Alaska USA) and Shemya (USA) (technical stop). The Northwest Seattle--Anchorage service offered a connection (at Anchorage) with this new operation to the Orient. Seoul (South Korea) was included as a stop on the Northwest Airlines route to the Orient in August 1947.

August 3 - A parade at Moscow Tushino Airport, USSR, presents the newest Soviet jets including among others: Yak-19, La-150, La-156, La-160, Su-9, Su-11.
August 10 - BEA begins the world's first regular cargo-only airline service.
August 14 - The Royal Pakistan Air Force is formed.
August 20 - A new world air speed record of 640 mph (1,031 km/h) is set in the Douglas Skystreak.
August 25 - The Douglas Skystreak achieves another air speed record of 650 mph (1,047 km/h).

September 17 - The United States Air Force becomes its own fully independent military command.

October 1 - Los Angeles Airways begins the first scheduled carriage of airmail by helicopter
October 1 - George Welch allegedly breaks the sound barrier during a dive in his XP-86 Sabre.
October 14 - Chuck Yeager takes the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the speed of sound, the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.
October 24 - United Airlines Flight 608 DC-6 (NC37510) en route to Chicago from Los Angeles catches fire and crashes while attempting an emergency landing at the Bryce Canyon, Utah, airport.
October 26-November 7 - Rhulin A. Thomas makes the first solo coast-to-coast flight by a deaf pilot. (Calbraith Perry Rodgers was an earlier deaf pilot who flew coast-to-coast in 1911, but was supported by a team on the ground.)