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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 September 1.8 October 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

January

• January 1 - Middle East Airlines Flight 438, a Boeing 720, aircraft over Saudi Arabia when bomb exploded in the forward baggage compartment, aircraft destroyed killing 81. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1973: Events Icelandair established This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1974 Events March March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a DC-10 This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1975: Events January A specially modified McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1977: Events January January 15 – A Skyline Sweden Vickers This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1978: Events January January 1 - British Aircraft Corporation This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1979: Events January January 12 - Pilatus Aircraft acquires The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Aviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices ( Aircraft) including the people organizations and regulatory bodies involved with them Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Middle East Airlines Flight 438 a Boeing 720B callsign CEDAR JET 438, was en route from Beirut on January 1, 1976 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

March

• March 17 - A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 makes the first non-stop flight from Tokyo to New York, taking 11. Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger ( or JAL, is an airline of Japan It is one of the largest Airline operators in Asia. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous 5 hours for the 10,139 km (6,300 mile) journey.

April

• April 5 - Howard Hughes dies aboard a Learjet, aged 70. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Howard Robard Hughes Jr (December 24 1905 – April 5 1976 was an American Aviator, Industrialist, Film producer / director, Philanthropist Learjet is a manufacturer of Business jets for civilian and military use
• April 27 – American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed on approach to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed at St Thomas, U WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Saint Thomas is an Island in the Caribbean Sea, a County and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI an unincorporated

May

• May 3 - A Pan Am Boeing 747SP makes a record around-the-world flight, taking 1 day 22 hours. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João
• May 24 - Three hijackers and seven hostages die as Filipino troops storm a hijacked Philippines Airlines Douglas DC-9. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

July

• July 1 - Clive Canning arrives in the United Kingdom, having flown from Australia in a Thorp T-18 homebuilt aircraft. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Thorp T-18 Tiger is a two-place all-metal Homebuilt aircraft designed in 1963 by John Thorp. Also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, homebuilt aircraft are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity
• July 3 - Three Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules carry commandos to Entebbe, Uganda to rescue the 258 passengers of an Air France Airbus hijacked six days earlier. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. The Israeli Air Force ( IAF; Hebrew: זרוע האויר והחלל Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, "Air and Space Arm" commonly known as חיל WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90500 The Republic of Uganda is a Landlocked country in East Africa. Air France (formally Société Air France) is one of the world's largest Airlines Air France is based in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Airbus SAS (ˈɛərbʌs in English, Airbus2ogg|/ɛʁbys/]] in French, and /ˈɛːɐbʊs/ in German) is an aircraft manufacturing This is the operation Entebbe. Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the

August

• August 1 - October 1 - After his 1973 RTW attempt was aborted by bad weather between Hokkaidō and the Aleutian Islands, Don Taylor of California successfully circumnavigates the world (Oshkosh eastbound to Oshkosh) in his Thorp T-18, the first aviator to do so with a homebuilt aircraft. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1973: Events Icelandair established WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan 's The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, " Island " are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming a Volcanic Donald P Taylor is an American aviator notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a Homebuilt California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Oshkosh is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, located where the Fox River The Thorp T-18 Tiger is a two-place all-metal Homebuilt aircraft designed in 1963 by John Thorp.

September

• September 6 - Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Union defects to the West, landing his MiG-25 FoxBat in Japan. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Виктор Иванович Беленко (born February 15, 1947) is an American Aerospace Engineer and Lecturer The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
• September 10 - In the worst mid-air disaster to this point, the 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, 176 people die when a British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex Adria Douglas DC-9 collide over Zagreb. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision occurred on 10 September 1976 when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B en route from London British Airways plc ( is the national Airline and Flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe The Trident, model DH121 or HS121, was a British short/medium-range three-engined Airliner designed by De Havilland Adria Airways dd is an Airline based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the national airline of Slovenia and a regional member of the Star Alliance WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Zagreb (ˈzɑːgrɛb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia.
• September 14 - A F-14 Tomcat rolls off the deck of USS John F. Kennedy and sinks in international waters. Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Ship history 1970s Kennedy' s maiden voyage and several of her subsequent voyages were on deployments to the Mediterranean during much of the A major salvage operation is launched to retrieve the fighter lest it fall into Soviet hands.
• September 18 - Death of legendary test pilot Albert Boyd
• September 19 - A THY Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Turkey killing 154. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Test pilots are Aviators who fly new and modified Aircraft in specific maneuvers allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated Albert Boyd was a pioneering Test pilot for the United States Air Force. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Turkish Airlines Inc ( Turkish Türk Hava Yolları Anonim Ortaklığı) (THY is the national airline of Turkey based in İstanbul WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches

October

• October 6 – Cubana Flight 455, a Douglas DC-8, bombed by Anti-Castro terrorists. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down by a terrorist attack on October 6, 1976. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The opposition to Fidel Castro ' s Marxist Government is largely unofficial and illegal within Cuba itself

First flights

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, with British Airways and Air France

August

• August 24 - Shorts 330 with Time Air

November

• Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1 with RAF

Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Piaggio P166 is a twin-engined push prop-driven utility aircraft developed by the Italian aircraft manufacturer Piaggio. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off The HAL HJT-16 Kiran ( Ray of Light in English is an Indian two-seat basic jet trainer built by Hindustan Aeronautics. Events 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated The Embraer EMB 121 Xingu is a twin- Turboprop Fixed-wing aircraft built by the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout British Airways plc ( is the national Airline and Flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe Air France (formally Société Air France) is one of the world's largest Airlines Air France is based in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Time Air was an Airline in Canada founded in 1966 by businessman Walter “Stubb” Ross from Lethbridge in Alberta. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

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