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1921 - 1st regular scheduled airline service in Latin America commences, with Colombian airline SCADTA operating float-equipped Junkers F.13s between Barranquilla and Girardot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/September_in_aviation/September_19

1922 - Birth of Robert Howden 'Bob' Fowler, Canadian WWII pilot and De Havilland Canada Test pilot.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=153266007#fbLoggedOut

http://thetartanterror.blogspot.fr/2007/10/robert-h-fowler-1922.html

1924 - 1st flight of The Junkers G 24, German three-engine, all-metal low-wing monoplane passenger aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_G_24

1925 - Birth of Masajiro "Mike" Kawato, Japanese WWII fighter ace.

http://zekekawato.homestead.com/ - http://www.cieldegloire.com/010_kawato_m.php

1928 - 1st flight of a Diesel engined aircraft : American Packard Motor Company of Detroit placed a Diesel engine in a Stinson-Detroiter, which was flown successfully by Captain Woolson and Walter Lees, Packard pilot.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/stinson_detroiter.php - http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/pimage21.htm

1935 - Death of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

1935 - Birth of Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 1st Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to be selected for Flag rank in the US Navy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Thurman_Hacker

1936 - Death of Tom Campbell Black, famous English aviator, killed in his Percival Mew Gull collided by a Hawker Hart while taxiing after landing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Campbell_Black#The_incident_at_Speke_Airport

1937 - 1st Junkers EF 61, German prototype twin-engined high-altitude bomber aircraft which provided valuable information on pressure cabins, crashed on that day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_EF_61_V1

1938 - 1st flight of the Short S.31, half scale version of the Short S.29 (later Stirling), British 4 engine bomber, Prototype used for aerodynamic tests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Stirling#Design_and_development

1940 - 1st convoy of aircraft to use the West African Reinforcement Route, six Hawker Hurricanes, led by a Bristol Blenheim carrying a navigator, leave Takoradi in the Gold Coast en route across the African Continent to Abu Sueir in Egypt

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1940.aspx -

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar///////UN/UK/UK-Med-I/maps/UK-Med-I-12.jpg

1940 - RAF Squadron No. 71 is formed at RAF Church Fenton, with Brewster Buffalos. Part of the 'Eagle Squadrons' composed of American volunteers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._71_Squadron_RAF

1942 - RAF Bomber Command mounts the 1st Allied daylight raid on Berlin. Six de Havilland Mosquito BIVs of No.105 Squadron, RAF, take off from Horsham at 1230hrs for a high-level raid on the city, however, due to poor weather over the target, only one aircraft bombs Berlin, through cloud. Two aircraft bomb the alternate target (Hamburg), two return with mechanical problems and one fails to return.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1942.aspx

1944 - Death of Guy Penrose Gibson, 1st CO of the RAF's 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid (Operation Chastise). Killed with his navigator in the crash of his de Havilland Mosquito while acting as a Pathfinder Master Bomber on a bombing raid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gibson#Return_to_operations

1945 - No.273 Squadron RAF (Supermarine Spitfire IXs) is deployed to Tan Son Nhut airfield in French Indo-China.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1945.aspx

1946 - Transportes Aéreos Portugueses, SGPS, S.A. (TAP),national airline of Portugal, begins operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAP_Portugal

1946 - The Avro 691 Lancastrian Jet , British high-speed transport derived from the Lancaster bomber for testing the new jet and turboprop engines, acted as the world's 1st jet airliner by making three passenger flights carrying representatives of the Press as well as Ministry officials and other passengers

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/avro_lancastrianjet.php

1949 - 1st flight of The Fairey Gannet, British carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare and airborne early warning aircraft. Mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, and double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet

1953 - A new world speed record of 709mph over a 100 kilometre closed course is established by Squadron Leader N.F. Duke in a Hawker Hunter at Dunsfold in Surrey.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1953.aspx

1957 - Birth of Richard Michael Linnehan, American veterinarian and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Linnehan

1961 - Death of Armond Jean Berthelot, French WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armond_J._Berthelot - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/berthelot.php

1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill_abduction

1962 - 1st flight of The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy, American large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft, developed from the Boeing 377, 1st of the Guppy line of aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Pregnant_Guppy

1965 - Birth of Sunita Williams (born Sunita Pandya Krishna), US Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut, who holds the record of the longest space flight (195 days) among female space travelers,most number of spacewalks for a female, and most spacewalk time for a female.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita_Williams

1969 - 1st flight of The Mil Mi-24 (Hind), Soviet large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for 8 passengers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-24

1976 - 2 Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 Boeing 727-2F2 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_452

1985 - 1st flight of The Gulfstream IV (G-IV or GIV), American twin-jet aircraft, mainly for private or business use, re-engined,stretched fuselage derivative of the Gulfstream III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_IV

1988 - Launch of Ofeq 1, Israeli reconnaissance satellite wich accomplished mainly solar cell and radio transmission tests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq#Launch_history

1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772

1999 - 1st flight of the PZL-104MW Wilga 2000 Hydro, Floatplane variant of the Polish designed and built short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) Civil Aviation utility aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-104_Wilga#Variants

2000 - STS-106, Atlantis Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-106

2006 - Death of John "Jack" Lawrence Finley, US Navy aviator, test pilot and astronaut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Finley

2007 - Death of Ján Režnák, Most succesfull Slovak WWII fighter ace who served on the Eastern front with the Axis Forces.

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Re%C5%BE%C5%88%C3%A1k

2009 - Efly, Malta-based private airline, begins operations.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090919/local/efly-operates-inaugural-flight.273972

2012 - Death of Jean Dabos, French WWII fighter pilot, Test pilot and aircraft designer.

http://www.aeromorning.com/chroniques.php?ch_id=1274 - http://www.helico-fascination.com/recits/jean-marie-potelle/344-jean-dabos-nous-a-quittes.html