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1971 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971:
Events
January
- January 6 - the US Marine Corps takes delivery of its first AV-8 Harriers
- January 22 - a US Navy P-3 Orion sets a distance record of 7,010 miles (11,282 km) for an aircraft in its class
June
- June 18 - Southwest Airlines founded
September
- First crossing of the Atlantic by Concorde
October
- The United States lifts its arms embargo from Israel.
- October 1 - Aurigny Air Services commences operations
December
- December 3-17 - Indo-Pakistan War . The Indian Air Force loses 72 aircraft and the Pakistan Air Force 94 aircraft.
First flights
February
- February 26 - Saab-MFI 15
March
- AEREON 26
- March 21 - Westland Lynx
- March 25 - Ilyushin Il-76 SSSR-86712
- March 26 - CASA C.212 Aviocar
- March 31 - SH-2 Sea Sprite
May
- May 28 - Dassault Mercure F-WTCC
April
- April 22 - Aero Boero AB-210
- April 29 - Piper Enforcer
July
- July 14 - VFW 614 D-BABA
- July 20 - Mitsubishi T-2
- July 23 - GAF Nomad VH-SUP
August
September
- September 3 - EMBRAER Xavante
- September 10 - Bell Model 309 N309J
- September 12 - Bede BD-5
Entered service
January
- January 29 - EA-6 Prowler with VAQ-129 at NAS Whidbey Island
August
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