Milestones and Models - Airliner history

January

Boeing 314 enters service with Pan Am
January 1939*

First Flight Lockheed L-749
January 9, 1943*

First Flight Vickers Vanguard
January 20, 1959*

First Flight Convair 880
January 27, 1959*

Boeing 747-100 enters service with Pan Am
January 21, 1970*

Concord enters service
January 26, 1976*

Boeing 757-200 enters service with Eastern
January 1, 1983*

February

First Flight Lockheed L-10 Electra
February 23, 1934

First Flight Douglas DC-6
February 15, 1946*

Convair 240 enters service with American Airlines
February 28, 1948*

Bristol Britannia enters service with BOAC
February 1, 1957*

Boeing 727-100 enters service with Eastern/United
February 1, 1964*

First Flight Douglas DC-9-10
February 25, 1965*

Boeing 737-100 enters service with Lufthansa
February 10, 1968*

First Flight Boeing 747-100
February 9, 1969*

First Flight Boeing 757-200
February 19, 1982*

Boeing 747-400 enters service with Northwest Airlines
February 9, 1989*

First Flight Airbus A320
February 22, 1987*

First Flight Tupolev Tu-334
February 8, 1999*

March

First Flight Sikorsky S42
March 30, 1934

First Flight Convair 240
March 16, 1947*

First Flight Concorde
March 2, 1969*

Fokker F-28 enters service with Braathens
March 28, 1969*

Quantas retires the last of it's Boeing 707's
March 25, 1979*

Quantas becomes the first all Boeing 747 airline
March 25, 1979*

Airbus A-320 enters service with Air France
March 28, 1988*

April

Boeing 377 enters service with Pan Am
April 1, 1949*

Vickers VC-10 enters service with BOAC
April 29, 1964*

First Flight Boeing 737-100
April 9, 1967*

Lockheed L1011 enters service with Eastern
April 26, 1972*

First Flight Airbus A-310
April 3. 1982*

May

First Flight Sikorsky S-38
May 25, 1928

Douglas DC-2 enters service with TWA
May 18, 1934*

First Flight Fokker F-28
May 9, 1967*

First Flight of Airbus A-300
May 30, 1972*

June

First Flight Ford Trimotor 4-AT
June 11, 1926*

First Flight Vickers VC-10
June 29, 1962*

First Flight Boeing 777-200
June 12, 1994*

Boeing 777-200 enters service with United
June 7, 1995*

July

London's first Airport opens at Hounslow Heath
July 1, 1919*

First Flight Dornier Do X
July 29, 1929

First Flight Lockheed L-14 Super Electra
July 29, 1937

First Flight Vickers Varsity
July 17, 1949*

First Flight DeHavilland Comet
July 27, 1949*

First Flight Boeing 367 "dash 80"
July 15, 1954*

First Flight of Vickers Viscount
July 16, 1948*

SE210 Caravelle enters service with Air France
July 22, 1959*

Airbus ceases production of A-300 and A-310
Last A-300 Delivered to Fed Ex
July 12, 2007*

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