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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954:

1 Events

January

• January 10 - a BOAC de Havilland CometThis article deals with the de Havilland Comet jet airliner. For the 1930s racing aircraft see de Havilland DH. 88 The de Havilland Comet of Britain was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Design work began in 1946 under Ronald Bishop and the inten crashes into the Mediterranean SeaThe Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. 5 million km². The term Mediterranean derives from the Latin mediterraneus 'inland' mediu near ElbaSee Village of Elba, New York and Town of Elba, New York for the locations in the United States. Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto. It is the biggest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third biggest Italia with the loss of all 35 people aboard.

April

• April 1April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. Events 527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1789 In New York City, the United Stat - Last operational flight by a RAF SpitfireThe term Spitfire the euphemistic translation of Cacafuego a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake, can refer to: a warplane, see Supermarine Spitfire a ship, see HMS Spitfire a movie from 1934, see Spitfire (1934) The US title of the Bri, a photo-reconnaissance sortie against bandits in Malaya

June

• June 2June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. Events 455 The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem br - YugoslaviaYugoslavia Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century. Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs jug in Jugoslavija means south). The first was a kin Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, which lands in Austria
• June 21 - three USAF B-47 Stratojets cross the Pacific Ocean in under 15 hours

July

• July 22 - an Air Cathay Douglas DC-4 is shot down near Hainan Island
• July 26 - Soviet Air Force Lavochkin La-7s attack two US Navy A-1 Skyraiders searching for survivors from the Air Cathay flight. The Skyraiders respond and shoot down the La-7s

November

• November 2 - the VTOL Convair XFY transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
• November 7 - Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a USAF B-29 Superfortress off Hokkaido, claiming it was spying.
• November 17 - a B-47 is forced by bad weather to remain aloft for 47 hours 35 minutes, needing nine aerial refuellings.