1910: King Edward VII grants the title “Royal” to the Aero Club of the United Kingdom.
1926: The Ford Motor Co. becomes the first U.S. private air carrier to operate a contract airmail (CAM) route. Ford begins operations with CAM-6 between Detroit and Chicago and CAM-7 between Detroit and Cleveland.
1938: Six US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortresses begin a goodwill tour of Latin America, traveling 12,000 miles to Lima, Buenos Aires, Santiago and back.
1946: First flight of the Douglas DC-6.
1961: Members of a US skating team are among 73 killed when Belgian airliner Sabena Boeing 707 crashes during its landing approach near Brussels, Belgium.
1965: Mrs. Guy Maher arrives from Culver City, California to Medford, New Jersey in a Hughes 300 to complete the USA’s first transcontinental helicopter flight by a woman.
1973: U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km).
1985: STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad.
1994: First flight of the Eurocopter EC 135.
2010: Spanish airline Hola Airlines ceases operations.
2011: United Airlines temporarily grounds all 96 of its Boeing 757 aircraft to check on a recent software upgrade that had not been performed to spec.