1947 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:
Events
March
- March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services.
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).
August
- August 10 - BEA began the world's first regular cargo-only airline service.
- 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 18 - the United States Air Force becomes its own fully independent military command.
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.
First flights
June
July
- July 2 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-310, prototype of the MiG-15
- July 8 - Boeing 377
- July 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.A/1
- 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
October
November
- November 2 - Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose"
December
Entered service
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