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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1980:

1 Events

January

• January 8 - a Mooney 231 lands in San Francisco, after flying coast to coast non-stop, setting a record by completing the flight in 8 hours and 4 minutes.
• January 16January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 349 days remaining (350 in leap years). Events 27 BC Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. 1362 One of the North Sea's greatest stormtides ever destroys th - British Island Airways and Air Anglia merge to form Air UK .

February

• an AeroflotAeroflot — Russian Airlines ( Russian: — ), or Aeroflot , is the Russian national airline and is the biggest carrier in Russia. It was also the national airline of the Soviet Union and the largest airline in the world. It is based in the Aerostar Hotel at Ilyushin Il-18Two aircraft have shared the designation Ilyushin Il-18 The first was a propeller-driven airliner of 1946 based on the B-29 Superfortress. After a year of test flights, the programme was abandoned. Il-18 on display at a Moscow's Domodedovo International A flies 30,000 km (18,642 miles) from MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is to the Molodezhnaya observatory in the Antarctic

March

• March 12March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). There are 294 days remaining. Events 515 BC Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem. 1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. 1894 For the first time Coc- 14March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years). There are 292 days remaining. Events 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille ordered her 150 000 Jewish - two B-52 Stratofortresses make a non-stop round-the-world flight in 42.5 hours
• March 28 - The 1,000th production Learjet is delivered.

April

• April 18 - Air Zimbabwe is formed.
• April 24 - helicopters from USS Nimitz participate in the abortive Operation Eagle Claw, a plan to rescue US hostages from Iran

June

• European Helicopter Industries is formed.
• June 13 - the last produced Concorde (number 16) is delivered to British Airways.
• June 19 - Sikorsky delivers its last of the S-61 commercial helicopeters.
• June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies when his private aerobatic biplane has an accident.

July

• July 6 - the largest light airplane meet outside the United States brings 750 small planes to the Popular Flying Associations annual meeting in Leicester.
• July 17 - a Vickers Viscount plane of charter airline Alidair lands safely in Devon after suffering damage to all four engines.
• July 17 - Cathay Pacific begins a Hong Kong- London service
• July 21 - the F-16 is officially nicknamed the Fighting Falcon in a ceremony.

August

• August 7 - Janice Brown pilots the MacCready Gossamer Penguin on its first solar powered flight.
• August 19 - tragedy strikes, as a Lockheed L-1011 of Saudia makes a safe emergency landing in Riyadh, but panicked passengers suffocate and burn in a subsequent stampede. All inside the plane died.

September

• September 22 - Iraq attacks Iran, various military bases and oil wells affected.
• September 28 - Iraqi Tupolev Tu-22s land in Riyadh after bombing Iran

October

• October 2 - a Westland Sea King performs the rescue of 22 passengers from the Swedish ship Finneagle in the North Sea.
• October 20 - first dogfights of the Iran-Iraq War. An Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is shot down by Iranian F-4 Phantoms

November

• November 1 - British Airways terminates Concorde services to Bahrain and Singapore
• November 9 - Dan-Air registers the last commercial flight by a de Havilland Comet. The plane flew enthusiasts on a round-trip flight from London.
• November 12 - Delta Air Lines orders 60 Boeing 757s, the largest single order to this time for a single airliner type.

December

• December 7 - Pan Am's Boeing 747, the China Clipper, arrives from JFK International Airport in New York, to Beijing, after a stop in Tokyo. It marks the first time since 1949 that a commercial flight between the United States and mainland China is completed.