1992 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1992:

Events

The European Commission approves three new regulations to liberalize air travel within the European Union. EU airlines are gradually given unlimited rights to serve airports in other member states, with the final round of reforms complete by April 1997.
The Operations of Australia's two government airlines, Australian Airlines & Qantas are merged in preparations for Qantas's privatisation, which will happen in 1995. Australian Airlines ceases to exist as a separate airline until 2002, when it re-emerges as a low-cost airline flying to destinations in South-East Asia.

January

January 10 - TWA files for bankruptcy
January 11 - the US FAA approves a helicopter rating for a pilot based solely on flight simulator performance for the first time.
January 15 - the USAF loses a Lockheed U-2 in the Sea of Japan
January 18 - the United States armed forces retire the last F-4 Phantom II from front-line service

March

Two USAF B-52 Stratofortresses visit a Russian Air Force base near Moscow - the first visit by US military aircraft to the former Soviet Union.
March 24 - The United States Department of Transportation announces that it will sign open skies treaties with any states that wish to reciprocate. The first open skies treaty is signed between the U.S. and the Netherlands later in the year.

April

April 22 - the YF-22 prototype is damaged beyond repair
April 24 - a USAF C-130 Hercules carrying out an anti-narcotics mission over Peru is attacked by Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s.

May

Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95s visit Barksdale AFB in the United States
May 8 - excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes supposedly buried there in 1919 - the first two aircraft built by that company. The search proves fruitless.
May 16 - the 2,000th C-130 Hercules rolls off the production line.

July