1944 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944:
Events
January
- January 11 - in one of the largest air raids to date, 570 USAAF bombers strike Brunswick, Halberstadt, and Oschersleben.
February
- February 18 - Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquitos of No. 464 and No. 487 squadrons attack the prison at Amiens in an attempt to allow captured members of the French Resistance to escape.
March
April
- April 3 - German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by attacks by the Fleet Air Arm and RAF.
- April 17 - Howard Hughes sets a new US transcontinental speed record, flying a Lockheed Constellation
May
- May 29 - aircraft carrier USS Block Island is torpedoed and sunk near the Azores. She is the only US Navy carrier lost in the Atlantic.
June
- June 5-6 - "D-Day" - the Allied invasion of France is spearheaded by paratrooper drops and assault glider landings.
- June 12, England suffers first V1 flying bomb attacks, .
- June 14-15 (overnight), flying a Mosquito of 605 Sqn, Flt Lt J G Musgrave became first pilot to shoot down a V1 flying bomb.
- June 24-25 - the Luftwaffe makes its first operational use of "Mistel" composite aircraft, against Allied shipping in Seine Bay.
July
- July 27 - Gloster Meteors of No. 616 Squadron RAF fly their first V1 interception mission
August
- August 15 - the first air-to-air victory by a jet is scored by Feldwebel Helmut Lennartz, shooting down a B-17 Flying Fortress in a Messerschmitt Me 262
- August 16 - the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor is used against enemy bombers for the first time.
October
- October 25 - the first kamikaze mission is carried out, with aircraft of the 201st Kokutai sinking the carrier USS St Lo.
November
- November 3 - the first Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs are launched against the United States.
- November 13 - civil air services to London are restored, with the first flights carried out by Railway Air Services
December
- December 7 - Signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation in Chicago, Illinois.
First flights
February
- February 16 - Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk
April
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December
Entered service
January
- Ilyushin Il-10 in the Soviet Air Force
July
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