1986 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1986:

Events

• General
  • Space Shuttle Challenger destroyed at launch on January 28.
  • December 14 - 23: First non-stop flight around the planet without refueling - the Rutan Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, on a distance of 26,366 statute miles (the FAI accredited distance is 40,212 km)

• January
  • 31, Canada: Boeing completes purchase of DeHavilland.
• February
  • 20, Iran: An Irani civilian airplane, a Fokker 28 model, is downed by an Iraqi Air Force plane, killing all passenges on the Iranian plane.
• March

• • 6, Frankfurt: The world's heaviest passenger, an 800 pound Austrian man, flies on Japan Airlines to Tokyo. The airline had to remove 16 seats from a Boeing 747 jet to accommodate him.
• April
  • 1, Kuwait: A Boeing 767 lands after a non-stop flight from Seattle, setting a world record for the longest, non-stop flight by a twin engined jet.
  • 18, France: Marcel Dassault (real name: Marcel Bloch) dies at 94.
  • 28, Soviet Union: Pan Am returns to the Soviet Union, using a Boeing 747 from JFK International Airport in New York.
• May
  • 3, Sri Lanka: 20 passengers die after an explosion caused by Tamil Tigers separatists aboard a Air Lanka Lockheed L-1011 jet.
  • 7, Dallas: Al Mooney dead at 80.

• June
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• October
• November
  • 6, Shetland Isles: A Boeing 234 Chinook crashes, killing 45 people. It is history's worst helicopter disaster.
• December
  • 2, Paris: An Air France Concorde returns to Paris after an 18 day around the world trip. with 94 passengers.

First flights

• February 15, United States: The Beech model 2000 Starship makes its first flight.
• March 3, Wichita, Kansas: A variant of the Cessna Model 208 Caravan I, specially built for Fed Ex, makes its first flight.
• May 19, England: The British Aerospace Hawk 200 helicopter flies for the first time.

• August 8 - British Aerospace EAP

• September 13, Italy; The Piaggio P.180 Avanti business turboprop flies for the first time.

Entered service

• January 8, Oklahoma: The first C-5B Galaxy plane delivered from Lockheed to the USAF.
• January 11, India: The first MiG-27 built by Hindustan Aeronautics is delivered.