1971 IN AVIATION

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971:

Contents

Events

First flights

Entered service

Events

'January'

★ January 6 - the United States Marine Corps takes delivery of its first AV-8 Harriers

★ January 22 - a US Navy P-3 Orion sets a distance record of 7,010 miles (11,282 km) for an aircraft in its class
'March'

★ March 24 - Federal funding for the Boeing SST project is cut by the US Congress.
'May'

★ May 20 - Boeing announces that they have canceled their SST project.
'June'

★ June 18 - Southwest Airlines founded
'July'

★ July 30 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
'September'

★ First crossing of the Atlantic by Concorde
'October'

★ The United States lifts its arms embargo from Israel.

★ October 1 - Aurigny Air Services commences operations
'December'

★ December 3-17 - Indo-Pakistan War. The Indian Air Force loses 72 aircraft and the Pakistan Air Force 94 aircraft.

First flights

'January'

★ January 20 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
'February'

★ February 26 - Saab-MFI 15
'March'

★ AEREON 26

★ March 15 - VFW-Fokker H3 Sprinter ''D-9543''

★ March 21 - Westland Lynx ''XW835''

★ March 25 - Ilyushin Il-76 ''SSSR-86712''

★ March 26 - CASA C.212 Aviocar

★ March 31 - SH-2 Sea Sprite
'April'

★ April 22 - Aero Boero AB-210

★ April 29 - Piper PA-48 Enforcer
'May'

★ May 28 - Dassault Mercure ''F-WTCC''
'July'

★ July 14 - VFW-614 ''D-BABA''

★ July 20 - Mitsubishi T-2

★ July 23 - GAF Nomad ''VH-SUP''

★ July 30 - Robin HR200
'August'

★ August 4 - Agusta A109
'September'

★ September 3 - EMBRAER Xavante

★ September 10 - Bell 309 KingCobra ''N309J''

★ September 12 - Bede BD-5 ''N500BD''

★ September 30 - Avro Shackelton AEW2 ''WL745''
'October'

★ October 21 - Italair F.20 Pegaso ''I-GEAV''
'December'

★ Aerosport Quail ''N88760''

Entered service

'January'

★ January 20 - McDonell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II with Luftwaffe

★ January 29 - EA-6 Prowler with VAQ-129 at NAS Whidbey Island
'April'

★ April 1 - Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B with British European Airways

★ April 15 - Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier with VMA-513 of the United States Marine Corps
'August'

★ August 5 - McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with American Airlines
'October'

★ October 1 - Britten-Norman Trislander with Aurigny Air Services