1946 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1946:
Events
January
- January 1 - a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian becomes the first commercial flight to depart Heathrow Airport
- January 10 - a Sikorsky R5 sets an unofficial helicopter altitude record of 6,400 m (21,000 ft) at Stratford, Connecticut.
- January 26 - Col William Councill sets a new US transcontinental speed record of 4 hours 13 minutes in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
February
- February 6 - TWA makes its first international flight, from New York to Paris
- March 8 - the Bell 47 receives the first type certificate awarded to a commercial helicopter.
- February 11 - U.S. and British negotiators reach the Bermuda Agreement, the first bilateral agreement regulating air transport. The two countries agree to fix transatlantic air fares through the International Air Transport Association.
June
July
- July 1 - a B-29 Superfortress drops an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in a nuclear test.
- July 21 - a McDonnell FH Phantom makes the first landing by a jet aboard a US aircraft carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
September
- September 27 - Sir Geoffrey de Havilland is killed when the de Havilland DH.108 breaks up in mid-air
- September 29 - a Lockheed P2V Neptune sets a new distance record of 11,235 miles (18,082 km)
First flights
January
- January 19 - Bell X-1 (unpowered)
April
- April 24 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-300, the Soviet Union's first jet
- April 24 - Yakovlev Yak-15 (three hours after the I-300)
May
- May 17 - Douglas XB-43, first US jet bomber
June
- June 7 - Short Sturgeon prototype RK 787
- June 25 - Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber
July
- July 7 - Hughes XF-11
- July 27 - Supermarine Attacker prototype TS 409
August
November
- November 11 - Sud-Ouest SO-6000 Triton, France's first jet
- November 13 - Sukhoi Su-9
- November 16 - Saab Scandia prototype SE-BCA
December
Entered service
September
- September 30 - Short S.26 with BOAC Golden Hind (G-AFCI)
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