March
March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services.
May
May 28 - BSAA trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refueling over the Azores
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-po ...
June
June 22 - Martin XB-48
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
October 1 - North American XP-86
November
November 2 - Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose"
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