Airline history from 1978, this page lists 34 airline related events from 1978.
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34 dates in airline history from 1978:
Sunday, January 01, 1978
British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley, and Scottish Aviation are absorbed into British Aerospace. View airlines from United Kingdom.
January 03, 1978
Aerolineas Condor was founded at Simon Bolivar Airport at Guayaquil. View airlines from Ecuador.
January 3rd, 1978
Big Bend Airways was incorporated. View airlines from USA.
Friday, February 03, 1978
de Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprop-powered regional airliner with STOL capabilities, was introduced in service by Rocky Mountain Airways.. View airlines from USA.
March 1st, 1978
Magnum Airlines (ii) was founded in Johannesburg through the merger of Air Lowveld, Avna Airways and Mafeking Aviation Services. View airlines from South Africa.
Sunday, March 26, 1978
Air Cargo Egypts' aircraft returned was to lessor and company closed. View airlines from Egypt.
Saturday, April 01, 1978
New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) merged with Air New Zealand. View airlines from New Zealand.
May 3rd, 1978
Air Foyle was established (+>Air Foyle Heavylift). View airlines from United Kingdom.
Monday, May 22, 1978
Tonga Air Service began operations. View airlines from Tonga.
Saturday, May 27, 1978
Constellation International Airlines was founded as Unijet. View airlines from Belgium.
May 31st, 1978
IFA (International Freight Airways) was declared bankrupt and ceased operations. View airlines from Belgium.
Thursday, June 08, 1978
Wardair became the first operator of the de Haviland Dash 7 (>Air Canada). View airlines from Canada.
Friday, June 30, 1978
Aklak Air operations restarted. View airlines from Canada.
Friday, June 30, 1978
Air Inuit, established in 1978 by the Makivik Corporation, restarted operations. View airlines from Canada.
Friday, June 30, 1978
Capital Air Services' last flight before being renamed to James Air. View airlines from New Zealand.
Saturday, July 01, 1978
Yemen Airways was renamed to Yemenia. View airlines from Yemen.
Saturday, July 01, 1978
Capital Air Services, last flight was 30Jun1978, & was renamed to James Air. View airlines from New Zealand.
Tuesday, July 04, 1978
Airnorth started operations as Air North International. View airlines from Australia.
Friday, July 07, 1978
Airbus launched the A.310. View airlines from France.
Saturday, July 15, 1978
Air Rarotonga, founded in Feb1978, restarted operations. View airlines from Cook Islands.
Friday, July 21, 1978
Air Niagara Express was established. View airlines from Canada.
August 01, 1978
In Mar1978, the government of Swaziland announced that it was setting up a national airline, Royal Swazi National Airways Corporation, and informed Swazi Air that they had to close down operations on this date. View airlines from Swaziland.
August 14th, 1978
Fast Air was formed (>LATAM Express). View airlines from Chile.
Tuesday, September 05, 1978
Germania operations started as SAT Flug (Special Air Transport). View airlines from Germany.
Thursday, September 14, 1978
ONA (Overseas National Airways) was formed in Jun1950 & ceased operations on this date. View airlines from USA.
Friday, September 15, 1978
Germania operations start on this date as SAT Flug (Special Air Transport). View airlines from Germany.
Friday, September 15, 1978
Big Sky Airlines, established in 1978, start operations on this date. View airlines from USA.
Thursday, September 21, 1978
NCA (Nippon Cargo Airlines) was established as Japan’s first all-cargo airline. View airlines from Japan.
Monday, October 16, 1978
The L.1011-500 TriStar first flew (this was a longer-range variant). View airlines from USA.
Thursday, November 02, 1978
CTA (Compagnie de Transport Aerien), formed in Sep1978 to succeed the privately owned charter airline SATA, began operations. View airlines from Switzerland.
Saturday, November 18, 1978
Business Flyers Basel changed name to Crossair (>Swiss). View airlines from Switzerland.
Friday, December 01, 1978
Suidwes Lugdiens merged into Namib Air. View airlines from Namibia.
Friday, December 15, 1978
NCA - New Central Airservice was established. View airlines from Japan.
Monday, December 18, 1978
Nationwide Air International was incorporated. View airlines from New Zealand.
