1992 In Aviation

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 Australia's two government airlines, Australian Airlines & Qantas are merged in preparations for Qantas's privatisation, which will happen in 1995. Australian Airlines ceases to exist as a separate airline until 2002, when it re-emerges as a low-cost airline flying to destinations in South-East Asia.

• January 10 - 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

• 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 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.

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

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

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

First flights

• March 26 - Saab 2000

• Sikorsky Cypher

• July 8 - Bede BD-10

• August 20 - HAL Dhruv

• November 2 - Airbus A330

• December 18 - McDonnell Douglas MD 900

Entered service

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