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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1964:
Events
February
- February 7 - The Canadian Golden Hawks aerobatic team is disbanded.
- February 19 - French troops are airlifted to Gabon to put down a coup by the army.
- February 29 - US President Lyndon Johnson reveals the existence of the CIA's Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft
April
- April 17 - Jerrie Mock arrives in Columbus, Ohio in a Cessna 180, completing a solo round-the-world flight and becoming the first woman to make such a journey.
May
- May 11 - Jackie Cochran sets a new women's airspeed record of 1,429 mph (2,300 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter
June
- June 1 - the Kenyan Air Force is established
- June 6 - Silver City Airways announces that it has airlifted its one millionth car between England and continental Europe.
July
August
- August 2 - US Navy aircraft are involved in skirmishes in the Gulf of Tonkin. F-8 Crusaders sink a North Vietnamese torpedo boat
- August 5 - US Navy aircraft attack North Vietnamese naval bases, spearheading direct US involvement in the Vietnam War.
- August 7-9 - the Turkish Air Force strikes Greek positions on Cyrpus
- August 23 - Greek Air Force F-4 Phantoms are recalled while en route to attack Turkish military positions
October
- October 1 - Derby Airways changes its name to British Midland Airways
- October 16 - the People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
November
- November 4 - First ever automatic blind landing by a passenger aircraft when a BOAC Hawker-Siddeley Trident landed in dense fog
- November 26 - Belgian paratroops are dropped into Congo by the US Air Force
December
- December 14 - The US Air Force launches Operation Barrel Roll , attacking the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos
First flights
January
- January 5 - Shorts Belfast XR362 G-ASKE
March
- March 7 - Hawker Siddeley Kestrel
April
- April 9 - de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
May
June
July
- July 15 - Aviomilano F.250 I-RAIE, prototype of the SIAI Marchetti SF.260
September
- September 21 - XB-70 Valkyrie
- September 27 - BAC TSR.2
- September 29 - LTV-Hiller-Ryan XC-142
October
November
December
Entered service
February
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