1993 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1993:
[edit] Events
- The 1,000th Boeing 747 comes off the production line 26 years after the first 747 was built.
February
- the last F-86 Sabre (a Bolivian Air Force machine) is withdrawn from service amongst the world's air forces
- February 10 - McDonnell Douglas produces its 10,000th aircraft
- February 27 - The USAF begins supply drops into Bosnia
March
- General Dynamics sells the rights to the F-16 Fighting Falcon to Lockheed
- March 15 - Iranian Air Force bombers attack a hospital in Raniya, Iraq.
- March 24 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.
April
- April 1 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reviews 70 Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
- April 9 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery
- April 18 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi radar station
May
- May 5 - Jet Airways began airline operations.
August
- Chicago Express began operations.
- August 11 -14 - two B-1 Lancers complete a round-the-world trip in 47 hours.
- August 19 - USAF aircraft are attacked by Surface-to-air missiles over northern Iraq. The launch site is destroyed in retaliation
- August 23 - the Russian Air Force flies open skies missions over Luftwaffe bases
September
- September 17 - the F/A-18 Hornet logs its 2 millionth flying hour - achieved in only ten years of operations.
October
- October 26 - ValuJet Airlines started operations.
[edit] First flights
March
- March 11 - Airbus A321
April
- April 2 - Fokker F70
July
- July 10 - Bell Eagle Eye
December
- December 18 - Sukhoi Su-34
- December 21 - Cessna Citation X
[edit] Entered service
July
- July 14 - C-17 Globemaster III
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