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Years:	1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1958:

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January

January 14 - Qantas becomes the first foreign airline permitted to fly across the United States.

February

February 6 - Munich air disaster: British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador G-ALZU Lord Burghley on Flight 609 crashes on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 23 including 8 Manchester United footballers.
February 13 - British Ministry of Defence White Paper makes Britain's nuclear weapons programme public knowledge.
February 27 - Winter Hill air disaster: Silver City Bristol 170 Freighter G-AICS, travelling from the Isle of Man to Manchester, crashes into Winter Hill, Rivington Moor, Lancashire (in North West England), in bad weather conditions, killing 35.

March

April

April 6 - Vickers Viscount N7437, operating Capital Airlines Flight 67 stalls and crashes on approach to Saginaw, Michigan, resulting in 49 deaths.The cause was attributed to ice accretion on the horizontal stabiliser.^[1]
April 21 – United Airlines Flight 736, a Douglas DC-7, collides near Las Vegas, Nevada at 21,000 feet (6,400 m) with a US Air Force F-100 Super Sabre fighter on a training mission. All 47 aboard the airliner and both F-100 crew members are killed.

May

May 16 - Cpt W. W. Irwin sets a new airspeed record of 1,404 mph (2,259 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter, the first record over 2,000 km/h.
May 17 - Four F3H Demons and four F8U Crusaders make a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic.
May 20 - Vickers Viscount N7410 of Capital Airlines collides in mid-air with a Lockheed T-33 of the Air National Guard. All eleven on board the were killed when it crashed at Brunswick, Maryland, as was one of the two crew members of the T-33.^[2]
May 23 - Short S.C.1 VTOL aircraft makes its first hovering flight.

June

June 9 - London Gatwick Airport opens after two years of extensive reconstruction. It is the first multimodal airport in the world, with direct rail connections from the main terminal to London and Brighton.

August

August 14 - KLM Flight 607-E disaster: KLM Lockheed Super Constellation PH-LKM Hugo de Groot crashes in the Atlantic 180 km west of Shannon, Ireland, perhaps due to mechanical failure, killing all 99 on board.
August 23 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, dissolving the Civil Aeronautics Administration and Civil Aeronautics Board and transferring all authority over aviation operations in the United States to the newly-created Federal Aviation Agency (FAA, later renamed Federal Aviation Administration).

September

September 30 - Britain's last flying boat is withdrawn from commercial service when Aquila Airways terminated its service on the Southampton--Funchal (Madeira) route.

October