Aircraft encyclopedia: 1960s

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1960
Hawker Siddeley HS 748
The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 was the regional turboprop with which Avro set out to replace the Douglas DC-3 on feeder routes around the world. It flew on 24 June 1960, and a ruggedness aimed at unprepared strips kept it working long after…
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James Petts from London, England (CC BY SA), vía commons
James Petts from London, England (CC BY SA), vía commons
James Petts from London, England (CC BY SA), vía commons
Ank Kumar (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1961
Convair 990 Coronado
The Convair 990 Coronado was the last jet airliner designed and built by Convair, the San Diego division of General Dynamics, and the fastest four-engined passenger jet of its generation. It grew out of a specific request from American…
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Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland (CC BY SA), vía commons
VISIT YOUR LOCAL AIR MUSEUM (HawkeyeUK) (CC BY SA), vía commons
David Dixon (CC BY SA), vía commons
Swissair (CC BY SA), vía commons
Swissair (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1962
Hawker Siddeley Trident
The Hawker Siddeley Trident is a British short/medium-haul trijet airliner that first flew on 9 January 1962 and entered service with British European Airways on 1 April 1964. A total of 117 were built, and the last examples were retired…
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SAC Neil Chapman (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
SAC Sarah Burrows (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
SAC Sally Raimondo (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
SAC Taz Hetherington (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Airliner · 1962
Vickers VC10
The Vickers VC10 was a British long-range jet airliner designed to operate from the short, hot and high runways of BOAC's route network. It first flew in 1962 and, after its airline career, soldiered on with the Royal Air Force until 2013.
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Eduard Marmet (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1963
Ilyushin Il-62
The Ilyushin Il-62 (NATO reporting name «Classic») was the first long-range passenger jet built in the Soviet Union. Conceived in 1960 as a successor to the turboprop Il-18, it is a narrow-body quadjet with its engines paired on either…
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Eduard Marmet (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Aleksandr Markin (CC BY SA), vía commons
Curtibonbon (CC BY), vía commons
Airliner · 1963
Tupolev Tu-134
The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined Soviet narrow-body jet airliner with rear-mounted engines and a T-tail, built for short and medium-haul routes between 1966 and 1989. The original version was distinguished by the glazed nose inherited…
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Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Aaron Headly (CC BY), vía commons
Reconnaissance · 1964
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was the fastest and highest-flying reconnaissance aircraft ever to enter operational service: a two-seat machine able to cross continents above Mach 3 and beyond 80,000 feet, built to photograph hostile…
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Dietmar Rabich (CC BY SA), vía commons
Cpl Rich Denton (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Cpl Rich Denton (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Cpl Rich Denton (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
Cpl Rich Denton (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons
General aviation · 1965
Britten-Norman Islander
The Britten-Norman Islander is a British light utility twin carrying a pilot and up to nine passengers, designed in the 1960s for short-haul work between small and poorly prepared airstrips. It first flew on 13 June 1965, was certified in…
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Aleksander Markin (CC BY SA), vía commons
Lentokonefani (CC BY SA), vía commons
Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia (CC BY SA), vía commons
Nikita Zhuravlev (CC BY SA), vía commons
Aleksander Markin (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1966
Yakovlev Yak-40
The Yakovlev Yak-40 (Як-40; NATO reporting name "Codling") was the world's first jet airliner designed specifically for local air routes: a straight-winged trijet with a T-tail and retractable tricycle gear, able to work from grass or…
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Andrew Thomas from Shrewsbury, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Pete Macklin (CC BY), vía commons
Pete Macklin (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1967
Fokker F28 Fellowship
The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a twin-engined short-haul jet airliner designed and built by the Dutch manufacturer Fokker, conceived in the early 1960s as a companion to the turboprop F27 Friendship rather than its replacement. Announced in…
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Mike Burdett from CROMER, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Rod Allday (CC BY SA), vía commons
Andrew Thomas from Shrewsbury, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Rob Schleiffert from Holland (CC BY SA), vía commons
Attack · 1967
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier was the first attack and reconnaissance aircraft with vertical or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) capability to reach genuine operational service, and the only design of its kind to survive the wave of…
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Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Airliner · 1968
Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante is a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed for both civil and military use. Its name recalls the bandeirantes, the Portuguese settlers who pushed ever deeper into the interior of what is…
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Airliner · 1969
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 was history's first wide-body airliner and, for half a century, the very symbol of intercontinental flight. Nicknamed the "Jumbo", its partial double-deck silhouette made it the most recognisable aircraft ever built:…
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Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (CC BY SA), vía commons
Björn Strey (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Marcualico (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1969
Fairchild Metroliner
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner brought the regional market a pressurised 19-seat twin grown out of the Swearingen Merlin business aircraft. It flew on 26 August 1969, entered service in 1972, and its long, narrow fuselage became a…
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