1991 IN AVIATION

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1991:

Contents

Events

January

February

June

July

October

December

First flights

February

April

May

June

September

October

Entered service

Events

January

★ January 16 - Eastern Air Lines is dissolved after 64 years of operation. Many of its remaining assets are parceled out to American and Continental.

★ January 17 - US-led forces attack Iraq in a massive air assault after a United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait passes unheeded.

February

★ February 28 - The US calls a ceasefire in Iraq, with airpower having neutralized practically all of the country's ability to make war.

June

★ June 17 - Alaska Airlines commences services to the Soviet Union

July

★ July 8 - a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet is forced to shoot down an E-2 Hawkeye after its crew abandons it following an engine fire

October

★ October 29 - a Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 707-368C Registered A20-103 conducting an asymmetric flight demonstration crashes into the Pacific Ocean 43Km South of East Sale, Victoria, Australia

December

★ December 4 - Pan Am, bankrupt since August 11, is finally dissolved after 63 years of operation.

First flights

February

★ February 13 - Swearingen SJ-30

April

★ April 27 - Eurocopter Tiger

★ April 29 - Cessna CitationJet

May

★ May 10 - Canadair Regional Jet

★ May 31 - Pilatus PC-12

June

★ June 18 - BAe RJ70

September

★ September 15 - C-17 Globemaster III

October

★ October 25 - Airbus A340

Entered service