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On This Day: November 28

Aviation events for November 28

1912: The Italian Air Battalion is made a fully operational command, the Flotta Aerea d’Italia.
 
1929: American Commander Richard Byrd and crew make the 1st flight over the South Pole, in a Ford 4-AT Trimotor monoplane, November 28-29.
 
1938: A Lufthansa Fw 200 takes off on the airline’s first flight to Japan, flying from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra, Karachi, and Hanoi. The 14,228 km (8,841 mile) flight breaks the distance record and takes 46 hours 18 minutes.
 
1942: Australian pilot F/Sgt Ron Middleton earns a posthumous VC for valour in bringing his crew and crippled bomber home after a raid on Turin, Italy.
 
1956: Ryan X-13 Vertijet makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight.
 
1964: NASA launches the first Mars fly-by spacecraft, Mariner 4.
 
1975: Evergreen International Airlines commences flight operations.
 
1978: United Airlines Flight 173 crashes in Portland, Oregon. Aircraft ran out of fuel while crew trouble shooted landing gear indicator problems.
 
1979: Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. Coincidentally it was the 50th anniversary of the first flight over the South Pole.
 
1983: Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on its sixth mission and the ninth shuttle mission overall, STS-9.
 
1987: South African Airways Flight 295, a Boeing 747-200 Combi, crashes into the Indian Ocean as the result of a fire, killing all 159 on board.
 
1995: First flight of the Gulfstream V.
 
 
 

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