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This category lists confirmed incidents in which civil airliners have been shot down by military combat aircraft, typically by fighters.Incidents are listed regardless of cause or intent (i.e., factors such as alleged misidentification of the target or navigational errors are immaterial).
In 2010, Robert Christensen announced plans for a series of online initiatives, releasing e-book formats of the print magazine and establishing a social media presence. The magazine was re-titled Airliners & Airports. Popular components of past issues such as the Air Photo News section were being returned to the magazine's pages, but around the ...
The main volume focuses on aircraft in production while the second book describes older aircraft and upgrades, both military and civil. While 2009 was the centennial year of Jane's All the World's Aircraft , 2013 marked the 100th edition—the disparity due to disruptions (chiefly with volumes covering two years) during the two World Wars.
References CAB CAB GY-20 Cab two-seat cabin monoplane CAB GY-30 Supercab two-seat cabin monoplane CAMS CAMS 37 single-engine airmail flying boat CAMS 51 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat CAMS 53 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat CAMS 56 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat CAMS 58 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat CAMS 161 four-engine airliner ...
The national airline of Ecuador, Ecuatoriana de Aviación, is founded. It will begin flight operations in August . May 1 – An Eagle Aviation Vickers VC.1 Viking crashes into trees near Blackbushe Airport in Yateley , Hampshire , England , killing 34 of the 35 people on board.
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a civil derivative of the Boeing Model 367, the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, which first flew in late 1944. William Allen, who had become president of the Boeing Company in September 1945, sought to introduce a new civilian aircraft to replace reduced military production after World War II. [4]
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May 25 – The Spanish government airline CLASSA officially assumes all the rights, obligations, fleets, and staff of Iberia and the other airlines that merged to form it. May 26 – Flying a Junkers W 34 be/b3e (registration D-1119), Friedrich W. Neuenhofen sets a new world altitude record, reaching 12,739 meters (41,795 feet).