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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1992:

1 Events

• The European Commission approves three new regulations to liberalize air travel within the European Union. EU airlines are gradually given unlimited rights to serve airports in other member states, with the final round of reforms complete by April 1997.
• The Operations of AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count's two government airlines, Australian Airlines & QantasQantas is Australia's oldest and largest airline, and the world's third oldest airline (after KLM and Avianca). Its IATA designator is QF. History The company was founded on 16 November 1920 as " Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited", are merged in preparations for Qantas's privatisation, which will happen in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja. Australian Airlines ceases to exist as a separate airline until 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, when it re-emerges as a low-cost airline flying to destinations in South-East Asia.

January

• January 10January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years). Events 49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signaled civil war. 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo. 1776 Thomas Paine publishes - TWA files for bankruptcy
• January 11 - the US FAA approves a helicopter rating for a pilot based solely on flight simulator performance for the first time.
• January 15 - the USAF loses a Lockheed U-2 in the Sea of Japan
• January 18 - the United States armed forces retire the last F-4 Phantom II from front-line service

March

• Two USAF B-52 Stratofortresses visit a Russian Air Force base near Moscow - the first visit by US military aircraft to the former Soviet Union.
• March 24 - The United States Department of Transportation announces that it will sign open skies treaties with any states that wish to reciprocate. The first open skies treaty is signed between the U.S. and the Netherlands later in the year.

April

• April 22 - the YF-22 prototype is damaged beyond repair
• April 24 - a USAF C-130 Hercules carrying out an anti-narcotics mission over Peru is attacked by Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s.

May

• Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95s visit Barksdale AFB in the United States
• May 8 - excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base , near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes supposedly buried there in 1919 - the first two aircraft built by that company. The search proves fruitless.
• May 16 - the 2,000th C-130 Hercules rolls off the production line.

July

• July 6 - the final F-4 Phantom IIs are retired from Royal Air Force service.

October

• October 16 - Flt Lt Nicky Smith, graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF's first female helicopter pilot, October 16.

December

• December 27 - USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons shoot down an Iraqi Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in Southern Iraq's "no fly zone"