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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1955:
Events
February
- February 26 – George F. Smith becomes the first person to survive a supersonic ejection, from a North American F-100 Super Sabre travelling (Mach 1.05).
March
- March 10 – Pakistan International Airlines is formed
April
- April 1 – post-World War II bans on powered flight in West Germany are lifted
June
- June 28 – Jean Moire lands a Bell 47 helicopter on top of Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 4,807 m (15,772 ft)
July
- July 26 – Capital Airlines adopts the Vickers Viscount, the first US airline to select a British airliner.
- July 27 – an El Al Lockheed Constellation is shot down by Bulgarian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s. All 58 aboard are killed
August
- August 29 – an English Electric Canberra sets a new altitude record of 65,876 ft (20,079 m)
September
- September 3 – J. S. Fairfield makes the first ejection from an aircraft on the ground, escaping from a Gloster Meteor traveling at 120 mph (193 km/h) along a runway
- September 9 – American Airlines, TWA, and United Airlines agree to adopt a domestic "coach class" for transcontinental flights across the United States.
October
- October 10 – helicopters from USS Saipan play a key role in rescuing people stranded by flooding in Tampico, Mexico
- October 16 – the Boeing 367–80 (707 prototype) crosses the United States in just 3 hours 58 minutes.
November
- November 1 – a United Airlines Douglas DC-6 is destroyed by a bomb planted by a man attempting to cash in his mother's life insurance policies. 58 people are killed
December
- December 4 – Glenn A. Martin dies at age 69
- December 15 – the de Havilland Mosquito flies its final operational sortie with the Royal Air Force
First flights
February
- February 14 – Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2, prototype of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
March
- March 2 – Dassault Super Mystère
- March 12 – Aérospatiale Alouette II
May
June
- June 17 – Tupolev Tu-104
- June 25 – Dassault Mirage I
- June 25 – Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
July
August
- August 4 – Lockheed Article 001, prototype of the Lockheed U-2
September
- September 7 – Sukhoi S-1, prototype of Su-7.
- September 20 – Nord 1500 Griffon
October
November
December
Entered service
January
- January 9 – Vickers Valiant with No. 138 Squadron RAF
June
- June 29 – B-52 Stratofortress with the 93rd Bomb Wing
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