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February 26 - Production of the A-4 Skyhawk ends after 26 years, with the
delivery of the 2,690th and final aircraft to the United States Marine
Corps.
March 25 - Qantas retires
its last Boeing 707
and becomes the world's first airline with a fleet of exclusively
Boeing 747s
May
May 16 - a New York Airways Sikorsky S-61 tips
over while taking on passengers at the Pan Am Building in
New York City,
killing four. The heliport is permanently closed afterward.
August 14 - Steve Hinton sets a new piston-engined airspeed
record in a specially-modified P-51 Mustang named the Red Baron.
He reaches 499 mph (803 km/h) over Nevada.
August 17 - Two SovietAeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over
Ukraine, killing 156
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