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15 July 1923. Soviet state airline Dobrolet began its first scheduled domestic service between Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod with a Junkers F.13. Aboard were two crew and four passengers. It was renamed Aeroflot when the USSR consolidated their airlines in 1932.
13 July 1986. First flight of the third prototype PZL-130T Turbo Orlik (SP-PCC). Polish turboprop, single engine, two seat trainer, export version with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25A turboprop.
11 July 1952. First flight of the F-500 'Monitor' I. French, two seat single engine monoplane trainer prototype.
11 July 1935. Laura Houghtaling Ingalls flew from Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, in her Lockheed Orion 9D Special, NR14222 non-stop to the Union Air Terminal at Burbank, California. The flight took 18 hours, 19 minutes, 30 seconds.
10 July 1950. Avro Canada TR.5 Orenda, the first production jet engine from Avro Canada's Gas Turbine Division, made its first flight with a converted Avro Lancaster of which the two outboard Merlin engines were replaced with the Orendas.
10 July 1942. First flight of the Douglas XA-26 Invader prototype (AAC Ser. No. 41-19504) at Mines Field, El Segundo, with test pilot Benny Howard at the controls. American twin-engine light attack bomber.
John Allman Hemingway, DFC. Born 17 July 1919, WW2 Royal Air Force fighter pilot who served in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy. The last verified surviving Battle of Britain airman.
10 July 1940. The preliminary phase of the Battle of Britain, the Kanalkampf, or Channel battle, began with German attacks on convoys in the English Channel and the ports along Britain's southern coast.
Oeffag Albatros D.III Ba.153 of Flik 42J s/n 153.42 flown by Stabsfeldwebel Ferdinand Udvardy.
9 July 1959. Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant XD858 made the first non-stop flight from Marham, England to Cape Town. The pilot was MRAF Sir Michael James Beetham DFC, AFC, GCB, CBE, DL. He and his crew returned to Marham on 14 July 1959.