- 1976 in aviation
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in?=in aviation
cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1973
yp2=1974
yp3=1975
year=1976
ya1=1977
ya2=1978
ya3=1979
dp3=1940s
dp2=1950s
dp1=1960s
d=1970s
dn1=1980s
dn2=1990s
dn3=2000sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1976 :Events
January
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January 1 -Middle East Airlines Flight 438 , aBoeing 720 , aircraft over Saudi Arabia when bomb exploded in the forward baggage compartment, aircraft destroyed killing 81.March
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March 17 - AJapan Air Lines Boeing 747 makes the first non-stop flight fromTokyo toNew York , taking 11.5 hours for the 10,139 km (6,300 mile) journey.April
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April 5 -Howard Hughes dies aboard aLearjet , aged 70.
*April 27 –American Airlines Flight 625 , aBoeing 727 , crashed on approach toSt. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands .May
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May 3 - APan Am Boeing 747SP makes a record around-the-world flight, taking 1 day 22 hours.
*May 24 - Three hijackers and seven hostages die as Filipino troops storm a hijackedPhilippines Airlines Douglas DC-9 .July
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July 1 -Clive Canning arrives in theUnited Kingdom , having flown fromAustralia in aThorp T-18 homebuilt aircraft .
*July 3 - ThreeIsraeli Air Force C-130 Hercules carry commandos toEntebbe ,Uganda to rescue the 258 passengers of anAir France Airbus hijacked six days earlier. This is theoperation Entebbe .August
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August 1 -October 1 - After his 1973 RTW attempt was aborted by bad weather betweenHokkaidō and theAleutian Islands , Don Taylor ofCalifornia successfully circumnavigates the world (Oshkosh eastbound to Oshkosh) in hisThorp T-18 , the first aviator to do so with a homebuilt aircraft.eptember
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September 6 -Viktor Belenko of theSoviet Union defects to the West, landing his MiG-25 FoxBat in Japan.
*September 10 - In the worst mid-air disaster to this point, the1976 Zagreb mid-air collision , 176 people die when aBritish Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and anInex Adria Douglas DC-9 collide overZagreb .
*September 14 - AF-14 Tomcat rolls off the deck of USS "John F. Kennedy" and sinks in international waters. A major salvage operation is launched to retrieve the fighter lest it fall into Soviet hands.
*September 18 - Death of legendarytest pilot Albert Boyd
*September 19 - A THYBoeing 727 crashed into a mountain inTurkey killing 154.October
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October 6 –Cubana Flight 455 , aDouglas DC-8 , bombed by Anti-Castro terrorists.First flights
May
*May 19 - Utva 75 "53001"July
*July 3 -Piaggio P.166 "I-PJAG"
*July 30 - HAL Kiran Mk II "U738"August
*August 9 -Boeing YC-14 "72-1873"
*August 12 -Aermacchi MB-339 "I-NOVE"
*August 13 -Bell 222 "N9988K"
*August 27 -PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader October
*October 10 -Embraer EMB 121 Xingu "PP-ZXI"
*October 12 -Sikorsky S-72 "NASA545"November
*November 7 -Dassault Falcon 50 "F-WAMD"December
*December 1 -Ahrens AR 404 "N404AR"
*December 16 -Shuttle Carrier Aircraft "NASA905"
*December 22 -Ilyushin Il-86 "CCCP-86000"Entered service
January
*January 21 -Concorde , withBritish Airways andAir France August
*August 24 -Shorts 330 withTime Air November
* Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1 with RAF
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