1962 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1962:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 April 1.4 July 1.5 September 1.6 October 1.7 December 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

January

• US Army CH-21 Shawnees are dispatched to Vietnam, the first US military aircraft to be deployed there
• January 10-11 - a B-52 Stratofortress is flown from Okinawa to Madrid, establishing a new distance record of 12,532 miles (20,168 km)
• January 24 - two US Navy F-4 Phantoms are seconded to the US Air Force as the air force plans to adopt the type.

February

• February 20 - John Glenn becomes the first US astronaut to orbit the earth in Mercury Atlas 6

April

• the United States Marine Corps arrives in Vietnam
• April 26 - Lou Schalk pilots the 1st unofficial flight of the A-12 Article 131
• April 30 - Lou Schalk pilots the 1st official flight of the A-12 Article 131

July

• July 7 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152 sets a new airspeed record of 2,681 km/h (1,666 mph)
• July 17 - Maj Robert M. White (USAF), pilots the North American X-15 to a record altitude of 314 750 feet (59 miles, 96 km).
• July 25 - the US Army forms its first armed helicopter company, using UH-1 Hueys

September

• September 18 - United States Armed Forces are directed by the United States Department of Defense to use a unified designation system for aircraft. See 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system for more information.

October

• October 14 - a US Air Force Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba reveals the presence of launchpads for Medium Range Ballistic Missiles, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis
• October 24 - aircraft carriers USS Enterprise, USS Independence, USS Essex, and USS Randolph take part in blockading Cuba.
• October 26 - the last B-52 off the production line is delivered to the US Air Force
• October 27 - a USAF U-2 is shot down over Cuba

December

• December 8 - British troops are airlifted to Borneo to quell uprisings in the region

First flights

January

• January 9 - Hawker Siddeley Trident

April

• April 14 - Bristol Type 188

June

• June 29 - Vickers VC10

August

• August 13 - Hawker Siddeley HS.125 G-ARYA

October

• October 12 - Dassault Balzac (tethered flight)
• October 28 - Westland Wasp

December

• December 7 - Aérospatiale Super Frelon
• December 22 - Lockheed A-12

Entered service

March

• March 18 - Convair CV-990 with American Airlines

June

• McDonnell F4H-1 with US Marine Corps VMF(AW)-314

July

• July 1 - Boeing Vertol 107 with New York Airways

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