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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1975:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 April 1.3 June 1.4 August 2 First flights 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• A specially modified McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle sets eight time to climb records, including one of 3 minutes 27 seconds from standstill on the runway to a height of 30,000 metres (98,425 feet).
• January 12 - British Airways begins Europe's first no-booking shuttle service, between London and Glasgow.
• January 14 - the F-16 Fighting Falcon is announced as the winner of the LWF (Light Weight Fighter) competition
• January 20 - terrorists hijack an Air France Boeing 707 and have it flown to Baghdad

[edit] April

• April 1 - Republic of Singapore Air Force is formed
• April 30 - the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps evacuate 7,000 US and South Vietnamese officials from Saigon

[edit] June

• June 22 - Svetlana Savitskaya sets a new women's airspeed record of 2,683 km/h (1,667 mph) in the Mikoyan Ye-133, a modified MiG-25PU two-seat trainer

[edit] August

• August 3 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.

• August 9 - Japan Air Lines establishes Japan Asia Airways as a subsidiary

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 24 - Aerospatiale SA 365 Dauphin F-WVKE
• January 25 - Birdman TL-1, lightest piloted powered aircraft

[edit] February

• February 22 - Sukhoi T-8-1, prototype of the Su-25 attack aircraft
• February 26 - Cessna 404 Titan N5404J

[edit] March

• March 7 - Yakovlev Yak-42 SSSR-1974
• March 27 - de Havilland Canada DHC-7 C-GNBX-X

[edit] April

• April 21 - Dominion Skytrader 800 N800ST

[edit] May

• May 21 - Rutan VariEze N7EZ

[edit] June

• June 3 - Mitsubishi F-1 59-5107
• June 16 - Atlas C4M Kudu ZS-IZF

[edit] July

• July 1 - Valmet L-70 Vinka

[edit] August

• August 26 - McDonnell Douglas YC-15 72-1875

[edit] September

• September 16 - Mikoyan Ye-155MP
• September 30 - Hughes YAH-64 73-22248

[edit] October

• October 1 - Bell YAH-63

[edit] November

• November 19 - AmEagle American Eaglet

[edit] Entered service

March

• March 5 - Shin Meiwa US-1 with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force

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