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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971:

Contents 1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service 4 Notes 5 References

[edit] Events

January

• January 6 - the United States Marine Corps takes delivery of its first AV-8 Harriers ^[1]
• January 22 - a US Navy P-3 Orion sets a distance record of 7,010 miles (11,282 km) for an aircraft in its class ^[1]

March

• March 24 - Federal funding for the Boeing SST project is cut by the US Congress.^[2]

May

• May 20 - Boeing announces that they have canceled their SST project.^[2]

June

• June 18 - Southwest Airlines founded

July

• July 30 - All Nippon Airways Flight 58 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 Sabre collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162 ^[3]

September

• First crossing of the Atlantic by Concorde
• September 11 - Britten-Norman Trislander makes first flight

October

• October 1 - Aurigny Air Services commences operations with Britten-Norman Trislander ^[1]

December

• December 3-17 - Indo-Pakistan War. The Indian Air Force loses 72 aircraft and the Pakistan Air Force 94 aircraft.^[1]
• December 24 - LANSA Flight 508 a Lockheed L-188 was destroyed by a thunderstrike high over eastern Peru's Amazon rainforest; one woman survived, her fall cushioned by the foliage.

[edit] First flights

January

• January 20 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

February

• February 26 - Saab-MFI 15 ^[1]

March

• AEREON 26
• March 15 - VFW-Fokker H3 Sprinter D-9543
• March 21 - Westland Lynx XW835
• March 25 - Ilyushin Il-76 SSSR-86712
• March 26 - CASA C.212 Aviocar ^[1]
• March 31 - SH-2D Sea Sprite^[1]

April

• April 22 - Aero Boero AB-210
• April 29 - Piper PA-48 Enforcer ^[1]

May

• May 28 - Dassault Mercure F-WTCC ^[1]

July

• July 14 - VFW-614 D-BABA ^[1]
• July 20 - Mitsubishi T-2 ^[1]
• July 23 - GAF Nomad VH-SUP ^[1]
• July 30 - Robin HR200

August

• August 4 - Agusta A109 ^[1]

September

• September 3 - Embraer Xavante ^[1]
• September 10 - Bell 309 KingCobra N309J ^[1]
• September 11 - Britten-Norman Trislander
• September 12 - Bede BD-5 N500BD ^[1]
• September 20 - VFW VAK 191B ^[1]
• September 30 - Avro Shackelton AEW2 WL745 ^[1]

October

• October 21 - Italair F.20 Pegaso I-GEAV

December

• Aerosport Quail N88760

[edit] Entered service

January

• January 20 - McDonell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II with Luftwaffe ^[1]
• January 29 - EA-6 Prowler with VAQ-129 at NAS Whidbey Island ^[1]

April

• April 1 - Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B with British European Airways
• April 15 - Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier with VMA-513 of the United States Marine Corps ^[1]

August

• August 5 - McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with American Airlines ^[1]

October

• October 1 - Britten-Norman Trislander with Aurigny Air Services ^[1]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• "Boeing 2707". GlobalSecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/b2707.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-14. 
• World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. 
• "The Worst Ever". TIME. 9 August 1971. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903063,00.html. 

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