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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976:
Events
March
- March 17 – A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 makes the first non-stop flight from Tokyo to New York, taking 11.5 hours for the 10,139 km (6,300 mile) journey.
April
- April 5 – Howard Hughes dies aboard a Learjet, aged 70.
May
- May 3 – A Pan Am Boeing 747SP makes a record around-the-world flight, taking 1 day 22 hours.
- May 24 – Three hijackers and seven hostages die as Filipino troops storm a hijacked Philippines Airlines Douglas DC-9.
July
- July 1 – Clive Canning arrives in the United Kingdom, having flown from Australia in a Thorp T-18 homebuilt aircraft
- July 3 – Three Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules carry commandos to Entebbe, Uganda to rescue the 258 passengers of an Air France Airbus hijacked six days earlier
September
- September 6 – Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Union defects to the West, landing his MiG-25 FoxBat in Japan.
- September 14 – A F-14 Tomcat rolls off the deck of USS John F. Kennedy and sinks in international waters. A major salvage operation is launched to retrieve the fighter lest it fall into Soviet hands.
- September 10 – In the worst mid-air disaster to this point, 176 people die when a British Airways BAC Trident and a Inex Adria Douglas DC-9 collide over Zagreb.
First flights
August
- August 9 – Boeing YC-14
- August 12 – Aermacchi MB-339
- August 13 – Bell Model 222
- August 27 – PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader
October
- October 10 – EMBRAER EMB-121 Xingu
- October 12 – Sikorsky S-72
December
Entered service
January
- January 21 – Concorde, with British Airways and Air France
August
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