1947 in aviation - 2 reference results
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:
Events
January
- January 26, A KLM Douglas Dakota crashed after takeoff from Copenhagen, killing all 22 onboard, including Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden.
March
- March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services.
April
- April 4 - International Civil Aviation Organisation was formed.
May
June
- June 17 - Pan Am begins a New York to San Francisco service flying west-to-east around almost the entire globe.
- June 19 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-powered aircraft during World War II).
July
- July 3 - The Philippine Air Force was formed.
- July 15 - Northwest Airlines flies the first commercial passenger flight from the U.S. to Japan, using The Manila, a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, by way of Anchorage. From Tokyo, the flight continued to Seoul, Shanghai, and Manila.
August
- August 3 - a parade in Tushino, USSR, presenting newest Soviet jets, among others: Yak-19, La-150, La-156, La-160, Su-9, Su-11.
- August 10 - BEA began the world's first regular cargo-only airline service.
- August 14 - The Royal Pakistan Air Force formed.
- August 20 - a new world airspeed record of 640 mph (1,031 km/h) is set in the Douglas Skystreak.
- August 25 - the Douglas Skystreak is flown to another airspeed record of 650 mph (1,047 km/h).
September
- September 17 - the United States Air Force becomes its own fully independent military command.
September
October
- October 1 - Los Angeles Airways begins the first scheduled carriage of airmail by helicopter
- October 1 - George Welch allegedly breaks the sound barrier during a dive in his XP-86 Sabre.
- October 14 - Chuck Yeager took the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the speed of sound, the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.
- October 24 - United Airlines Flight 608 DC-6 (NC37510) en route to Chicago from Los Angeles caught fire and then crashed while attempting an emergency landing at the Bryce Canyon, Utah airport.
- October 26-November 7 - Rhulin A. Thomas made the first solo coast-to-coast flight by a deaf pilot. Calbraith Perry Rodgers was an earlier deaf pilot who flew coast-to-coast in 1911, but was supported by a team on the ground.
First flights
January- January 8 - Yakovlev Yak-19
- January 11 - McDonnell XF2D-1 Banshee, later redesignated XF2H-1
March
May
- May 28 - Sukhoi Su-11 (1947), first aircraft with Soviet-designed jet engines
- May 28 - Douglas Skystreak
June
- Yakovlev Yak-15U, a prototype of Yak-17
- Lavochkin La-160, first Soviet swept-wing fighter
- June 22 - Martin XB-48
- June 25 - Boeing B-50
- June 30 - Avions Fairey Junior - OO-TIT
- June 30 - Vickers Valetta VL249
July
- July 8 - Boeing 377
- July 8 - Yakovlev Yak-23
- July 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 TG263
- July 21 - Aero 45
- July 24 - Ilyushin Il-22
- July 27 - Tupolev Tu-12, first Soviet jet bomber
- July 27 - Bristol Sycamore, first British helicopter
September
- September 2 - Hawker P.1040 VP401
October
November
- November 2 - Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose")
- November 2 - Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947)
December
- C-119 Flying Boxcar
- December 17 - Boeing XB-47
- December 30 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-310, prototype of the MiG-15
Entered service
AprilAugust
- McDonnell FH Phantom with United States Navy squadron VF-171
October
November
- McDonnell FH Phantom with United States Marine Corps squadron VMF-122, first deployment of a jet by a US Marine combat unit
- Republic F-84B Thunderjet with the United States Air Force 14th Fighter Group.
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