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

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 .

NASA initiates the Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) program to develope technology to help revitalize the slumping General Aviation industry.

January

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

March

Two USAF B-52 Stratofortress es 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-22 s.

May

Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95 s visit Barksdale AFB in the United States

May 8 - excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base , near Auckland , in search of two Boeing Seaplane s 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 Falcon s shoot down an Iraqi Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 in Southern Iraq's "no fly zone"

FIRST FLIGHTS

March

March 26 - Saab 2000

April

Sikorsky Cypher

July

July 8 - Bede BD-10

August

August 20 - HAL Dhruv

November

November 2 - Airbus A330

December

December 18 - McDonnell Douglas MD 900

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