1995 IN AVIATION

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1995:

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

August

November

First flights

June

August

September

October

November

December

Entered service

May

Events

★ A Concorde sets a new speed record for a round-the-world flight. It returns to JFK International Airport in New York after a journey lasting 31 hours 27 minutes, passing through Toulouse, Dubai, Bangkok, Guam, Honolulu and Acapulco.

January

★ January 26 - Outbreak of the Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian Mil Mi-8 and Mil Mi-25, as well as Ecuadorian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters begin ground attack operations.

February

★ February 9-12 - Heavy fighting continues between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian and Ecuadorian air forces step up their activities.

★ February 10 - Two Peruvian Sukhoi Su-22Ms are shot down by a pair of Ecuadorian Mirage F.1JAs. Almost simultaneously, a Peruvian Cessna A-37B is also shot down by an Ecuadorian Kfir C.2.

★ February 10 - the prototype Antonov An-70 is destroyed after a mid-air collision with an An-72 chase plane. All seven aboard are killed in the crash.

★ February 13 - $US 5 million in damage is caused when a violent thunderstorm hits Miami International Airport. Four airliners and nine airbridges are seriously damaged.

March

★ March 14 - an Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashes near Baku after running out of fuel. Crew negligence is blamed, and it is suggested that the flight crew were drunk.

April

★ April 4 - Russian Air Force warplanes are deployed to support the mobilisation of troops into Chechnia

May

★ May 16 - a Royal Air Force BAe Nimrod is forced to ditch in Moray Firth

★ May 25 - a combined force of NATO aircraft attack a Serb ammunition depot near Jahorinski Potok

★ May 28 - Serb forces shoot down a Mil Mi-8 carrying the Bosnian foreign minister and a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon

August

★ August 30 - Operation Deliberate Force is launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb forces. Two hundred sorties are flown during the first 24 hours, including the first combat missions flown by the Luftwaffe since World War II. Raids continued until September 14.

November

★ November 17 - Rollout of the first HAL Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) technology demonstrator, TD-1.

First flights

★ Cirrus SR20

June

★ June 9 - Eurocopter Colibri

August

★ August 17 - Embraer ERJ 145 family

★ August 25 - Airbus A319

September

★ September 18 - Lambach HL II

October

★ October 7 - Learjet 45

November

★ November 2 - Fokker F60

★ November 28 - Gulfstream V

December

★ December 1 - Air Tractor AT-602

★ December 18 - NHI NH90

Entered service

May

★ June 17 - Boeing 777 with United Airlines