1975 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1975:

Events

January

• A specially modified McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle sets eight time to climb records, including one of 3 minutes 27 seconds from standstill on the runway to a height of 30,000 metres (98,425 feet).
• January 12 - British Airways begins Europe's first no-booking shuttle service, between London and Glasgow.
• January 14 - the F-16 Fighting Falcon is announced as the winner of the LWF (Light Weight Fighter) competition
• January 20 - terrorists hijack an Air France Boeing 707 and have it flown to Baghdad

April

• April 1 - Republic of Singapore Air Force is formed
• April 30 - the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps evacuate 7,000 US and South Vietnamese officials from Saigon

June

• June 22 - Svetlana Savitskaya sets a new women's airspeed record of 2,683 km/h (1,667 mph) in the Mikoyan Ye-133, a modified MiG-25PU two-seat trainer

August

• August 3 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.

• August 9 - Japan Air Lines establishes Japan Asia Airways as a subsidiary

First flights

• January 25 - Birdman TL-1, lightest piloted powered aircraft

• February 22 - Sukhoi T-8-1, prototype of the Su-25 attack aircraft

• March 7 - Yakovlev Yak-42

• June 3 - Mitsubishi F-1

• July 1 - Valmet L-70 Vinka

• August 26 - McDonnell Douglas YC-15

• September 16 - Mikoyan Ye-155MP
• September 30 - Hughes YAH-64

• October 1 - Bell YAH-63

Entered service

• March 5 - Shin Meiwa US-1 with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force

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