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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1979:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10 December 2 First flights 2.1 February 2.2 March 2.3 April 2.4 May 2.5 June 2.6 July 2.7 October 2.8 November 2.9 December 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 12 - Pilatus Aircraft acquires Britten-Norman

[edit] February

• February 26 - Production of the A-4 Skyhawk ends after 26 years, with the delivery of the 2,690th and final aircraft to the United States Marine Corps.

[edit] March

• March 10 - The US Air Force sends E-3 Sentry aircraft to monitor the civil war in Yemen
• March 25 - Qantas retires its last Boeing 707 and becomes the world's first airline with a fleet of exclusively Boeing 747s

[edit] May

• May 16 - a New York Airways Sikorsky S-61 tips over while taking on passengers at the Pan Am Building in New York City, killing four. The heliport is permanently closed afterward.
• May 25 - an American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago during take-off, killing all 269. DC-10s are grounded across the US.

[edit] June

• June 12 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel using pedal power.
• June 27 - Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagles shoot down four Syrian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s

[edit] July

• July 23 - the British government announces plans to privatise British Airways and publicly sell British Aerospace shares.

[edit] August

• August 14 - Steve Hinton sets a new piston-engined airspeed record in a specially-modified P-51 Mustang named the Red Baron. He reaches 499 mph (803 km/h) over Nevada.
• August 17 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156

[edit] October

• October 30 - Sir Barnes Wallis dies, aged 82.

[edit] November

• November 29 - an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes on the Mt Erebus volcano, killing all aboard.

[edit] December

• December 25 - Antonov An-12s and An-22s airlift the first Soviet troops into Afghanistan. 5,000 arrive in the first 24 hours.

[edit] First flights

[edit] February

• February 28 - PAC Cresco

[edit] March

• March 9 - Dassault Mirage 4000
• March 22 - CP-140 Aurora

[edit] April

• April 10 - Westland WG.30 G-BGHF
• April 19 - Learjet 55

[edit] May

• May 15 - Dassault Mirage 50
• May 18 - Piper PA-42 Cheyenne

[edit] June

• June 12 - Rutan Long-EZ prototype, N79RA

[edit] July

• July 24 - Bell XV-15

[edit] October

• October 27 - Panavia Tornado ADV

[edit] November

• November 30 - Piper Malibu

[edit] December

• December 12 - SH-60 Seahawk 161169
• December 14 - Edgley Optica G-BGMW
• December 21 - NASA AD-1
• December 22 - Aérospatiale Epsilon

[edit] Entered service

January

• January 6 - F-16 Fighting Falcon with the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF.

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