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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1987:
Events
January
- January 1 – US Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphins and US Navy H-3 Sea Kings help rescue people trapped inside the Dupont Plaza hotel Puerto Rico after a fire there on New Year's Eve
- January 7 – French Air Force jets attack the Libyan Air Force base in Ouadi Doum to avenge a raid by Libya against the French military 3 days before.
April
- April 2 – a Royal Air Force Vickers VC-10 sets a new record time between the UK and Australia, landing in Perth after a flight of 16 hours 1 minute.
May
- May 9 – An Ilyushin Il-62 of LOT Polish Airlines bound for New York, crashes on take-off, killing 183 persons.
- May 29 – Mathias Rust, 19 years old, a West German pilot, shocks people by landing his Cessna 172 plane in Red Square, Moscow.
June
- June 21 – Air France pilot Partick Fourticq and friend Henri Pescarolo once again walk into the record books, completing an around the world flight aboard a Lockheed 18, in 88 hours and 19 minutes.
August
- August 16 – a Douglas DC-9 of Northwest Airlines crashes on take-off for a flight from Detroit to Phoenix. 154 are killed.
- August 30 – Israel's government cancels the IAI Lavi programme
September
- September 15 – a Eurocopter Panther sets new time-to-altitude records for helicopters in its class
October
- October 23 – the last F-104 Starfighter is phased out of Luftwaffe service
- October 31 – British Airways accepts the airline's first women pilots.
November
- November 26 – a DC-9 of Continental Airlines crashes in Denver, Colorado on take-off during a snowstorm. 26 lose their lives and 56 are gravely injured.
First flights
February
March
April
- April 30 – Promavia Jet Squalus
June
- June 10 – Boeing Vertol Model 360
October
December
- AEA Maverick
- December 29 – Scaled Composites AT³
Entered service
April – Tu-160 in Soviet Air Forces (184th Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment in Pryluki)
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