1993 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1993:
Events
- The 1,000th Boeing 747 comes off the production line 26 years after the first 747 was built.
February
- the last F-86 Sabre (a Bolivian Air Force machine) is withdrawn from service amongst the world's air forces
- February 10 - McDonnell Douglas produces its 10,000th aircraft
- February 27 - The USAF begins supply drops into Bosnia
March
- General Dynamics sells the rights to the F-16 Fighting Falcon to Lockheed
- March 15 - Iranian Air Force bombers attack a hospital in Raniya, Iraq.
- March 24 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.
April
- April 1 - Queen Elizabeth II of England reviews 70 Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
- April 9 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery
- April 18 - USAF aircraft attack and destroy an Iraqi radar station
August
- August 11-14 - two B-1 Lancers complete a round-the-world trip in 47 hours.
- August 19 - USAF aircraft are attacked by Surface-to-air missiles over northern Iraq. The launch site is destroyed in retaliation
- August 23 - the Russian Air Force flies Open Skies missions over Luftwaffe bases
September
- September 17 - the F/A-18 Hornet logs its 2 millionth flying hour - achieved in only ten years of operations.
First flights
March
April
- April 2 - Fokker F70
July
December
- December 18 - Sukhoi Su-34
- December 21 - Cessna Citation X
Entered service
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