2010 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2010:

Events

January

2 January

• Boeing 727-231F 9Q-CAA of Congolese airline Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation was substantially damaged when it departed the side of the runway at N'djili Airport, Kinshasa.^[1] The aircraft was later reported as damaged beyond repair.^[2]
• In Slovakia, a package containing the explosive RDX was placed in the luggage of a passenger at Poprad-Tatry Airport by Serbian police as part of a training exercise. Due to an error, the package was not recovered and the luggage was loaded onto a Danube Wings flight to Dublin. The error was not realised until the plane had departed. The Garda Síochána were not informed until 5 January, causing a bomb alert in Dublin. The innocent passenger was arrested but later released when the Slovak Government admitted he was blameless.

3 January

• Air Berlin Flight 2450, operated by Boeing 737–800 D-ABKF overran the end of the runway after an aborted take-off at high speed due to an airspeed discrepancy on the two pilots' instruments. The incident happened at Dortmund Airport. There were no injuries among the 171 people on board.^[3]

10 January

• United Airlines Flight 634, operated by Airbus A319-131 N816UA made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport when the right main landing gear failed to deploy. The aircraft sustained some damage when the right engine contacted the runway. The 53 passengers and crew evacuated the aircraft via the emergency chutes without injury.^[4] Initial fears that the wing had been damaged in the accident later proved groundless, with damage being confined to the engine and nacelle.^[5]

13 January

• German airline Blue Wings ceased operations.^[6]

15 January

• Iran Air Fokker 100 EP-IDA, operating Flight 223 was substantially damaged when the nose gear collapsed after landing at Isfahan International Airport.^[7]

16 January

• UTair Aviation Boeing 737–500 VQ-BAC departed the runway on landing at Vnukovo International Airport and was substantially damaged when the nosewheel collapsed.^[8]

19 January

• Japanese flag carrier Japan Airlines files for protection from bankruptcy.
• BinAir Swearingen SA-227-C Metro D-CKPP was damaged when the right main undercarriage collapsed on landing at Stuttgart Airport.^[9]
• PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 N246PS overran the runway at Yeager Airport, Charleston, West Virginia following a rejected take-off. The aircraft was stopped by the EMAS at the end of the runway, sustaining substantial damage to its undercarriage.^[10]

20 January

• British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that commercial flights between the United Kingdom and the Yemen would be suspended, owing to British concerns over terrorist activity in Yemen, and will not resume until the security situation in Yemen improves.^[11]

21 January

• Cargolux Flight 7933, operated by Boeing 747-400 LX-OCV struck a vehicle on landing at Luxembourg International Airport. The van suffered major damage and the aircraft sustained a damaged tyre. Three investigations have been launched into the incident.^[12]

24 January

• Taban Air Flight 6437 crashed on landing at Mashhad International Airport Iran. All 170 people on board escape from the burning aircraft.

25 January

• Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, Boeing 737-8AS, crashed into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, for Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All 90 people on board die.

26 January

• Spanish airline Quantum Air ceased operations.

31 January

• American airline Northwest Airlines is merged into Delta Air Lines.
• Guicango Yakovlev Yak-40 D2-FES suffered the collapse of all landing gears on landing at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola on a flight from Cabinda.^[13]

February

4 February

• Yakutia Airlines Flight 425, operated by Antonov An-24 RA-47360 suffered an engine failure on take-off from Yakutsk Airport for Olekminsk Airport. During the subsequent landing, the nose and port main undercarriage were retracted, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.^[14]

11 February

• Trigana Air Service Flight 168, operated by ATR-42-300F PK-YRP made a forced landing in a paddy field at Bone, Indonesia. Two people were seriously injured and the aircraft was written off.
• Click Mexicana Flight 7222, operated by Fokker 100 XA-SHJ suffered an undercarriage malfunction on approach to Quetzalcóatl International Airport, Nuevo Laredo. A low fly-past confirmed that both main gears had not deployed. The aircraft diverted to General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, Monterrey, where it was substantially damaged in the landing, having departed the runway and spun through 180°.^[15]

15 February

• Spanish airline Hola Airlines ceases operations.

18 February

• After setting fire to his house and leaving behind a suicide note expressing displeasure with government and taxation, Andrew Joseph Stack III crashes his Piper Dakota into an office building housing an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and an IRS manager and injuring 13 others, two of them seriously.

March

1 March

• ACT Airlines Airbus A300B4-200 TC-ACB sustained substantial damage when the port undercarriage collapsed on landing at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.^[16] The port engine and wing were also damaged.^[17]
• Air Tanzania Flight 100, operated by Boeing 737–200 5H-MVZ sustained substantial damage when it departed the runway on landing at Mwanza Airport and the nosewheel collapsed. Damage was also caused to an engine.^[18]

18 March

• Exin Flight 3589, operated by Antonov An-26 SP-FDO received an unsafe gear warning on approach to Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, Tallinn, Estonia on a flight from Helsinki Airport, Helsinki, Finland. A go-around was initiated, during which an engine failed and a wheels-up landing was made on the frozen surface of Lake Ülemiste. Two of the six crew were injured.^[19]

22 March

• Aviastar-TU Flight 1906, operated by Tupolev Tu-204 RA-64011 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow. The aircraft was written off, the first hull loss for Aviastar and the first of a Tu-204.

25 March

• Scottish airline Highland Airways ceases operations.^[20]

30 March

• Aeroméxico resumes its twice-a-week service to Shanghai, China, from Mexico City via Tijuana, Mexico. Aeroméxico becomes only the third Latin American airline in history to offer service to Asia. It had suspended the service due to the 2009 influenza pandemic.

31 March

• The Canadian airline Skyservice ceases operations.
• Aloha Airlines ceases operations and declares bankruptcy. It halts all passenger operations and transfers all of its cargo operations to Aloha Air Cargo.

April

8 April

• British Airways and Iberia confirm that they have agreed to merge.

10 April

• A Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M carrying the Polish President Lech Kaczyński and many other Polish officials crashes in poor visibility on approach to Smolensk North Airport in Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board.^[21] In addition to Kaczyński, the crash kills his wife, Maria Kaczyńska; his personal Roman Catholic chaplain, Roman Indrzejczyk; the head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Władysław Stasiak; the Secretary of State at the Chancellery, Paweł Wypych; the Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery, Mariusz Handzlik; Deputy Minister of National Defence Stanisław Komorowski; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Kremer; the Director of Diplomatic Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mariusz Kazana; the Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage and General Conservator of Monuments, Tomasz Merta; the head of the National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczygło; the Ombudsman for Civil Rights, Janusz Kochanowski; the head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, Janusz Krupski; the Deputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, Krystyna Bochenek; two other members of the Polish Senate (Janina Fetlińska and Stanisław Zając); Deputy Marshals of the Sejm Krzysztof Putra and Jerzy Szmajdziński; 12 other members of the Sejm (Leszek Deptuła, Grzegorz Dolniak, Grażyna Gęsicka, Przemysław Gosiewski, Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, Sebastian Karpiniuk, Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, Maciej Płażyński, Arkadiusz Rybicki, Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, Zbigniew Wassermann, Wiesław Woda, and Edward Wojtas); the chief of the Polish General Staff, General Franciszek Gągor; the commander of the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski; the commander of the Polish Air Force, Lieutenant General Andrzej Błasik; the commander of the Polish Navy, Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta; the commander of the Polish Land Forces, Major General Tadeusz Buk; the commander of the Warsaw Garrison, Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski; the commander of the Special Forces, Major General Włodzimierz Potasiński; the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Armed Forces, Major General Tadeusz Płoski; Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Armed Forces Miron Chodakowski; former president of the Polish government-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski; Chancellor of the Order of Virtuti Militari, Brigadier General Stanisław Komornicki; the President of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers, Czesław Cywiński; the president of the Institute of National Remembrance, Janusz Kurtyka; Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites Andrzej Przewoźnik; the president of the Polish Bar Council, Joanna Agacka-Indecka; the rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Ryszard Rumianek; the president of the National Bank of Poland, Sławomir Skrzypek; the president of the Polish Olympic Committee, Piotr Nurowski; co-founder of the Solidarity trade union Anna Walentynowicz; actor Janusz Zakrzeński; and sculptor Wojciech Seweryn.

12 April

• Jamaican airline Air Jamaica ceases operations. All services taken over by Caribbean Airlines.

13 April

• Unable to adjust their thrust settings due to an engine malfunction, the flight crew of Cathay Pacific Flight 780, an Airbus A330-342 with 322 people on board, is forced to land at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China, at 230 knots (265 mph; 426 km/h), 95 knots (109 mph; 176 km/h) higher than normal landing speed. The aircraft makes a successful landing, but 57 passengers are injured during the subsequent emergency evacuation.
• Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836 operated by Boeing 737–300 PK-MDF overran the runway at Rendani Airport, Manokwari, Indonesia. All 103 passengers and crew escape alive.

• Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302 operated by Airbus A300B4F XA-TUE crashed on approach to General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, Monterrey, Mexico. All five crew were killed, as was one person in a car that was hit by the crashing aircraft.

15 April

• Following the second eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, large areas of controlled airspace were closed, causing widespread suspension of services across Europe.

21 April

• Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines Flight 7815, operated by Antonov An-12 UR-AN216 crashed on approach to Clark International Airport (formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport), Philippines after a fire broke out in flight. Three of the six crew were killed.^[22]

22 April

• On Earth Day, the United States Navy conducts a flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, of an F/A-18 Super Hornet powered by a biofuel blend. The aircraft, nicknamed the "Green Hornet," flies for about 45 minutes on a 50/50 blend of conventional jet fuel and a biofuel made from Camelina sativa. The flight is the first of a planned 15 test flights totaling about 23 flight-hours, scheduled for completion by mid-June 2010.^[23]

May

12 May

• Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 operated by Airbus A330-202 5A-ONG crashed on approach to Tripoli International Airport, Libya, killing 103 people.

13 May

• TAM Airlines joins the Star Alliance.

15 May

• A Blue Wing Airlines Antonov An-28 crashed shortly after take-off from Godo Holo Airstrip killing all eight on board.

17 May

• Pamir Airways Flight 112, operated by Antonov An-24 YA-PIS crashed in the Salang Pass killing all 43 on board.

22 May

• Air India Express Flight 812, operated by Boeing 737–800 VT-AXV crashed at Mangalore International Airport with the loss of 162 lives.

26 May

• Iraqi Airways ceases operations.
• Launched from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Pacific Ocean, the Boeing X-51A Waverider makes a successful first flight, reaching nearly Mach 5. It is the first time in history that an aircraft flies powered by a practical thermally balanced hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet engine.^[24][25]

28 May

• The first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of flying both day and night thanks to batteries charged by solar power that provide it with power during darkness, makes its first flight powered entirely by solar energy, charging its batteries in flight. The flight takes place at Payerne Airport outside Payerne, Switzerland.^[26]

June

• The European Union (EU) and the United States sign phase two of the EU–US Open Skies Agreement.

6 June

A wheel-well stowaway inside a Boeing 747 survives a flight from Vienna to London.^[27]

Royal Air Maroc Flight 685R, a Boeing 737-4B6 (registration CN-RMF) with 162 people on board, strikes several geese during takeoff from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The airliner's crew manages t turn the badly damaged airliner back to the airport and land safely.^[28][29]

10 June

Vietnam Airlines joins the SkyTeam airline alliance.

11 June

Lufthansa inaugurates Airbus A380 service with a flight from Frankfurt-am-Main to Tokyo.

16 June

Trans States Airlines Flight 8050, operated by Embraer ERJ-145 N847HK overran the runway at Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport and was substantially damaged when the nose gear collapsed.^[30]

19 June

Berlin Air Services Douglas DC-3 D-CXXX crashed shortly after take-off from Berlin Schönefeld Airport on a local sightseeing flight. Eight people were injured and the aircraft was substantially damaged.

21 June

Aero Service CASA C-212 Aviocar TN-AFD crashed in the Republic of the Congo killing all eleven people on board, including Australian mining magnate Ken Talbot

30 June

Aegean Airlines joins the Star Alliance.

July

8 July

The first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power, makes its first overnight flight, taking off from Payerne Airport outside Payerne, Switzerland, and returning after 26 hours 10 minutes 19 seconds in the air, the first overnight flight by a solar-powered aircraft and the longest flight in history up to this time by a manned solar-powered aircraft. The flight also sets a record for the highest altitude ever attained by a manned solar-powered aircraft, reaching 8,744 meters (28,687 feet) above ground and 9,235 meters (30,298 feet) in absolute altitude.^[31][32]

18 July

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first international appearance at the Farnborough Airshow, UK.^[33]

26 July

An Israeli Air Force (IAF) Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashes during a joint Israeli-Romanian aviation exercise in the Carpathian Mountains in northern Romania, killing six IAF officers and one Romanian Air Force officer.^[34][35]

27 July

Lufthansa Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 D-ALCQ crashes at King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

28 July

Airblue Flight 202, operated with an Airbus A321, crashes in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad. Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 00-0173 of the United States Air Force crashed near Elmendorf Air Force Base killing all four people on board.

August

1 August

• All West Freight Fairchild C-123 Provider N7099R crashes at Mount Healy, Alaska killing all three crew.^[36]

2 August

• Todd Reichert of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies pilots a human-powered ornithopter, Snowbird, in Ontario, sustaining 19.3 seconds of flight, covering a distance of 145 metres (475 ft). The 42.6 kg (92.59 lb) craft has 32-metre- (105-foot-) span flapping wings.^[37]
• The Mexican airline Mexicana files for insolvency proceedings in Mexico and bankruptcy protection in the United States.

3 August

• Katekavia Flight 9357 crashes in Igarka, Russia, killing eleven people.

9 August

• A de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbo Otter crashes near Aleknagik, Alaska, killing five people including former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator and later EADS North America CEO Sean O'Keefe is among the four survivors.

13 August

• Regional Spanish airline Andalus Lineas Aereas ceases operations.

16 August

• AIRES Flight 8250, operated by Boeing 737-73V HK-4682, crashes short of the runway at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport, San Andrés, Colombia and breaks into three sections. One passenger dies from a heart attack following the accident. The other 124 passengers and six crew survive.

24 August

• Saudi Arabian airline SAMA ceases operations.
• Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Nepal killing all 14 people on board.
• Henan Airlines Flight 8387 overruns the runway on landing at Lindu Airport, China. 42 of the 96 people on board were killed.

25 August

• Filair Let L-410 Turbolet 9Q-CCN crashes short of the runway at Bandundu Airport, killing all 14 people on board.
• Passaredo Transportes Aéreos Flight 2231, operated by Embraer E-145 PR-PSJ, lands short of the runway at Vitória da Conquista Airport and is substantially damaged but all 27 people on board survive.^[38]
• Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 773, operated by a Fokker 100, overruns the runway on landing at Tabriz International Airport. The aircraft is substantially damaged.^[39]

27 August

• Five days of flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, of alternative fuels by a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III end with the C-17 flying using a blend of 50 percent conventional JP-8 jet fuel, 25 percent HRJ biofuel made from beef tallow, and 25 percent coal-based fuel made through the Fischer–Tropsch process, becoming the first United States Department of Defense aircraft to fly on such a blend and the first aircraft to operate from Edwards using a fuel derived from beef tallow. The flight is a culmination of a series of test flights, with the C-17 flying using JP-8 in three of its engines and a 50/50 blend of JP-8 and biofuel in one engine on 23 August, followed by a flight with the same 50/50 blend in all four engines on 24 August.^[40]

28 August

• The Mexican airline Mexicana de Aviacion suspends operations due to insolvency.

September

• Star Alliance member airlines serve 1,172 airports in 181 countries, with approximately 21,200 daily departures.

3 September

• UPS Flight 6, operated by Boeing 747-44AF N571UP crashed shortly after take-off from Dubai International Airport, killing both crew and destroying the aircraft. N571UP was operating an international cargo flight to Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany.^[41]

4 September

• A Fletcher FU24 crashed on take-off from the Fox Glacier, killing all nine people on board. This was the worst aircraft accident in New Zealand for 21 years, and at the time the 7th worst in New Zealand.

5 September

A De Havilland Tiger Moth biplane crashes into spectators at an air show at the Lauf-Lillinghof airfield near Nuremberg, Germany. One woman is killed and 38 people are injured, five of them seriously.^[42] Four years later, a trial in Hersbrucker District Court determined that the cause of the crash was pilot error, finding the pilot guilty of "… fahrlässiger Tötung und fahrlässiger Körperverletzung …" (involuntary manslaughter and negligent injury)." ^[43]

7 September

• Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514, operated by Tupolev Tu-154M RA-85684 suffered a complete electrical failure in flight. A successful emergency landing was made at Izhma Airport, Russia but the aircraft overran the runway. All 81 passengers and crew escaped uninjured. The aircraft involved was repaired in 2011.^[44]

13 September

• Conviasa Flight 2350, operated by ATR 42–400 YV-1010 crashed shortly after take-off from Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela on a domestic scheduled passenger flight to Del Caribe "Santiago Mariño" International Airport, Porlamar, Isla Margarita. The aircraft was carrying 47 passengers and crew. Initial reports suggest 24 survivors.^[45]

15 September

• DHC-8-103B LN-WIF of Widerøes Flyveselskap was substantially damaged in a hard landing at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka when the undercarriage collapsed. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Bodø Airport.^[46]

24 September

• Wind Jet Flight 243, operated by Airbus A319-132 EI-EDM,^[47] landed short of the runway at Punta Raisi Airport, Palermo, Italy after encountering a thunderstorm and windshear on approach. The aircraft was substantially damaged when it impacted the localiser. Both main undercarriage sets collapsed and the aircraft was evacuated by the emergency slides.^[48] Around 20 passengers were injured in the evacuation.^[47]

25 September

• PIA Flight 782, carrying 273 people bound from Toronto for Karachi, landed at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport in September 2010 because of a "hoax" bomb threat on board. After evacuating the passengers from the plane, a thorough check was made to find any explosives, if present, on the aircraft. Police operation leader Stephan Radman said later that no explosives were found on board.^[49]

30 September

• After Pakistani troops at a border post along the border with Afghanistan fire warning shots at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) attack helicopters flying a combat mission over Afghan territory against Afghan insurgents near the border, the helicopters mistake them for insurgents and return fire, killing three Pakistanis.^[50]

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October

12 October

• Transafrik International Flight 662, operated by Lockheed L-100 Hercules 5X-TUC crashed into a mountain 19 miles (31 km) east of Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, killing all eight crew.

28 October

• A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter crashed in Antarctica, killing four people.

29 October

• A terrorist plot to send bombs by air freight from Yemen to the United States via the United Kingdom is uncovered.

31 October

• Shanghai Airlines leaves the Star Alliance.

November

4 November

• Qantas Flight 32, operated by Airbus A380 VH-OQA suffered an uncontained engine failure over Batam Island, Indonesia. Falling debris injured one person on the ground. The aircraft dumped fuel and returned to Singapore Changi Airport, where a safe landing was made.
• Aero Caribbean Flight 883, operated by an ATR 72 crashed at Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba killing all 68 people on board.

5 November

• A Jahangir Siddiqui Air Beechcraft 1900 crashed near Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 people on board.

10 November

• An Israeli Air Force F-16I crashes in Makhtesh Ramon while on a training over the Negev desert in southern Israel, killing both the pilot and navigator of the plane.^[52]

15 November

• S7 Airlines joins the Oneworld airline alliance as a full member. Its subsidiary Globus Airlines joins as an affiliate member.

28 November

• Sun Way Flight 4412, operated by Ilyushin Il-76 4L-GNI on a cargo flight crashed in a populated area of Karachi, Pakistan, shortly after taking off from Jinnah International Airport. All eight people on board were killed, as were a further two people on the ground. The aircraft was reported to have been trying to return to Jinnah after suffering an engine fire.^[53]

29 November

• The shareholders of British Airways and Iberia approve the merger of the two airlines.

December

• The Royal Australian Air Force retires the world's last operational General Dynamics F-111.^[54]
• Turkey sends two firefighting aircraft to Israel to assist in aerial firefighting efforts against the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.^[55]

3 December

• South East Airlines Flight 372, operated by Tupolev Tu-154M RA-85744 crashed on landing at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia. Of the 168 people on board, two passengers were killed. The aircraft was written off.

5 December

• The U.S. Evergreen 747 Supertanker, the world′s largest firefighting aircraft, deploys to Israel to assist in fighting the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.

15 December

• A Tara Air flight operated by DHC-6 Twin Otter 9N-AFX crashed into a mountain shortly after departure from Lamidanda Airport, Nepal. The aircraft was operating a chartered passenger flight to Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. All 19 passengers and crew were killed.^[56]
• Last operation by a Harrier Jump Jet, from RAF Cottesmore.

28 December

• Antonov An-22 RA-09343 of the Russian Air Force crashed at Krasny Oktaybr, Russia killing all twelve crew. The aircraft was on a positioning flight from Voronezh Airport to Tver-Migalovo Airport.^[57]

First flights

January

26 January

• Kawasaki C-2^[58]

29 January

• Sukhoi T-50 in Russia.^[59]

February

8 February

• Boeing 747-8 in the United States.^[60]

March

10 March

• KAI KUH-1 Surion^[61]

29 March

• HAL Light Combat Helicopter^[62]

April

28 April

• Antonov An-158^[63]

September

10 September

• Eurocopter X3^[64]

December

30 December

• TAI Anka^[65]

Retirements

September

17 September

• Boeing T-43^[66]

References

• Butowski, Piotr (March 2010). "Raptorski's Maiden Flight". Air International. Vol. 78 no. 3. pp. 30–37. ISSN 0306-5634.