1963 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1963:
Events
January
February
- February 14 - the Indian Air Force receives its first batch of Soviet fighters, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s
March
- March 18 - the Dassault Balzac makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
July
- July 19 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
October
- In an exercise named Operation Big Lift, the US Air Force airlifts an entire armoured division of 15,000 troops to Europe within 5 days.
First flights
January
- January 7 - Short Skyvan
- January 26 - [Hiller OH-5]]
February
March
April
June
August
December
- December 17 - C-141 Starlifter
- December 17 – Matra Jupiter
- December 21 - Hawker Siddeley Andover