founded

Cirrus Aircraft

February 6 –

AIDC AT-3

February 14 –

Cessna Citation S/II

February 15 – [21]

Cessna T-47

February 24 – [22]

Boeing 737-300

Bell 214ST

(NATO reporting name "Mainstay") with the Soviet Air Forces

Beriev A-50

by the United States Air National Guard[30]

Republic F-105 Thunderchief

(NATO reporting name "Moss") by the Soviet armed forces

Tupolev Tu-126

April – , aviation engineer (b. 1901)

Maxine (Blossom) Miles

Deadliest crash[edit]

The deadliest crash of this year was Aeroflot Flight 3352, a Tupolev Tu-154 which crashed on landing in Omsk, Russian SFSR on 11 October, killing 174 of the 179 people on board, as well as four on the ground.

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Taylor, John W. R.

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