- 1980 in aviation
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aviation -related events from1980 :Events
January
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January 8 - aMooney 231 lands inSan Francisco , after flying coast to coast non-stop, setting a record by completing the flight in 8 hours and 4 minutes.
*January 16 -British Island Airways andAir Anglia merge to formAir UK .February
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Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18 flies 30,000 km (18,642 miles) fromMoscow to the Molodyozhnaya observatory in theAntarctic March
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March 12 -14 - twoB-52 Stratofortress es make a non-stop round-the-world flight in 42.5 hours
*March 28 - The 1,000th productionLearjet is delivered.April
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April 3 - Crash of the prototypeBombardier Challenger 600 in the Mojave desert kills the pilot
*April 18 -Air Zimbabwe is formed.
*April 24 - helicopters from USS "Nimitz" participate in the abortiveOperation Eagle Claw , a plan to rescue US hostages from IranMay
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May 1 - Spectacular crash of USMCAV-8A Harrier at MCAS Cherry Point, NC. During avertical takeoff the aircraft rolled, dropped to the runway, bounced into a ditch, burst into flames, flipped, slid through a hangar and into a parking lot, where it damaged more than twenty vehicles.June
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European Helicopter Industries is formed.
*June 13 - the last producedConcorde (number 16) is delivered toBritish Airways .
*June 19 - Sikorsky delivers its last of the S-61 commercial helicopeters.
*June 23 -Sanjay Gandhi , son ofIndira Gandhi , dies when his private aerobatic biplane has an accident.July
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July 6 - the largest light airplane meet outside theUnited States brings 750 small planes to thePopular Flying Association s annual meeting inLeicester .
*July 17 - aVickers Viscount plane ofcharter airline Alidair lands safely inDevon after suffering damage to all four engines.
* July 17 -Cathay Pacific begins aHong Kong -London service
*July 21 - the F-16 is officially nicknamed the "Fighting Falcon" in a ceremony.August
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August 7 -Janice Brown pilots theMacCready Gossamer Penguin on its first solar powered flight.
*August 19 - aSaudi Arabian Airlines Lockheed L-1011 makes a safe emergency landing inRiyadh , but panicked passengers suffocate and burn in a subsequent stampede. All inside the plane die.
*August 28 - 31 - the3rd FAI World Rally Flying Championship inAschaffenburg ,West Germany . Individual winners: 1. Witold Świadek / Andrzej Korzeniowski (Poland ), 2. Otto Höfling / Michael Amtmann (FRG), 3. Luckerbauer / Meszaros (Austria ). Team results: 1. Poland, 2. FRG, 3. Austria.eptember
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September 22 -Iraq attacksIran , various military bases and oil wells affected.
*September 28 - IraqiTupolev Tu-22 s land in Riyadh after bombing IranOctober
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October 2 - aWestland Sea King performs the rescue of 22 passengers from the Swedish ship "Finneagle " in theNorth Sea .
*October 20 - firstdog fight s of theIran–Iraq War . An IraqiMikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is shot down by IranianF-4 Phantom sNovember
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November 1 -British Airways terminatesConcorde services toBahrain andSingapore
*November 9 -Dan-Air registers the last commercial flight by ade Havilland Comet . The plane flew enthusiasts on a round-trip flight fromLondon .
*November 12 -Delta Air Lines orders 60Boeing 757 s, the largest single order to this time for a single airliner type.December
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December 7 - Pan Am'sBoeing 747 , the "China Clipper", arrives fromJFK International Airport in New York, to Beijing, after a stop inTokyo . It marks the first time since 1949 that a commercial flight between theUnited States andmainland China is completed.First flights
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May 13 -Antonov An-3 June
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June 20 -Beechcraft Commuter
*June 24 -Microturbo Microjet 200 "F-WZJF"July
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July 12 -KC-10 Extender "79-0433"
*July 23 - Aérospatiale Dauphin IIAugust
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August 11 -Learjet Longhorn 50
*August 16 -EMBRAER Tucano "1300"
*August 19 -Boeing Vertol Model 234 eptember
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September 26 -Shanghai Y-10 November
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November 6 -Macready Solar Challenger Entered service
October
* The MD-80 series enters airline service.
November
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November 13 -F/A-18 Hornet withVFA-125 atNAS Lemoore .December
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December 26 -Ilyushin Il-86 withAeroflot [vi:Hàng không năm 1980]
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