1954 in aviation

Years in aviation:	1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957
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Years:	1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 April 1.3 June 1.4 July 1.5 November 2 First flights 2.1 March 2.2 June 2.3 July 2.4 August 2.5 September 2.6 October 3 Entered service 4 References

Events

January

• January 10 - BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea near Elba with the loss of all 35 people aboard.

April

• April 1 - Last operational flight by an RAF Spitfire, a photo-reconnaissance sortie against bandits in Malaya

June

• June 2 - Yugoslavian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, which lands in Austria
• June 21 - three USAF B-47 Stratojets cross the Pacific Ocean in under 15 hours

July

• July 22 - an Air Cathay Douglas DC-4 is shot down near Hainan Island
• July 26 - Soviet Air Force Lavochkin La-7s attack two US Navy A-1 Skyraiders searching for survivors from the Air Cathay flight. The Skyraiders respond and shoot down the La-7s

November

• November 2 - the VTOL Convair XFY transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
• November 7 - Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a USAF B-29 Superfortress off Hokkaidō, claiming it was spying.
• November 17 - a B-47 is forced by bad weather to remain aloft for 47 hours 35 minutes, needing nine aerial refuellings.

First flights

March

• March 4 - Lockheed XF-104 Prototype of the F-104 Starfighter

June

• June 14 - PAC Fletcher

July

• July 15 - Boeing 367-80, prototype of the Boeing 707 and Boeing C-135 families

August

• August 3 - Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (free flight)
• August 4 - English Electric P.1, prototype of the English Electric Lightning
• August 23 - Lockheed YC-130 Hercules, from Palmdale, CA to Edwards Air Force Base

September

• September 29 - Maiden flight of a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo by test pilot Robert C. Little^{[1] [2]}

October

• October 3 - Douglas XF4D-1
• October 6 - Fairey FD.2

Entered service

• Tupolev Tu-16 in the Soviet Air Force

February

• Supermarine Swift with No. 56 Squadron RAF

September

• FJ Fury with VF-173
• September 27 - F-100 Super Sabre with 479th Fighter Day Wing

References

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