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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1958:

Events

Gulfstream Aerospace founded in Savannah, Georgia, USA.
London Gatwick Airport opens after two years of extensive reconstruction. It is the first multimodal airport in the world, with direct rail connections from the main terminal to London and Brighton.

January

January 14 - Qantas becomes the first foreign airline permitted to fly across the United States February

February 13 - the British Ministry of Defence White Paper makes Britain's nuclear weapons programme public knowledge. March

March 17 - Air Inter commences operations May

May 16 - Cpt W. W. Irwin sets a new airspeed record of 1,404 mph (2,259 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter, the first record over 2,000 km/h

May 17 - four F3H Demons and four F8U Crusaders make a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic

May 23 - the Short S.C.1 VTOL aircraft makes its first hovering flight September

September 30 - Britain's last flying boat airliners are put out of service when Aquila Airways terminates it Southampton-Madeira route.

First flights

March

March 5 - Yakovlev Yak-28

Aerfer Ariete

March 25 - The Avro CF-105 Arrow (RL201) made its maiden flight in Malton (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). April

April 22 - Boeing Vertol 107-II

April 30 - Blackburn Buccaneer XK 486 May

May 12 - Dassault Mirage III

May 27 - McDonnell XF4H-1 June

June 9 - Agusta AZ8-L July

July 30 - de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou CF-KTK-X August

August 31 - North American A3J-1 Vigilante September

September 16 - North American NA265-40 Sabreliner November

Adams-Wilson Hobbycopter December

December 4 - Baade B-152 V1 Prototype

Entered service

January

F-104 Starfighter with the 83rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron USAF at Hamilton AFB April

April 9 - Handley Page Victor with No. 10 Squadron RAF at RAF Cottesmore

April 21 - Vertol Model 44 with New York Airways May

May 26 - Republic F-105B Thunderchief with the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron USAF at Eglin AFB August

Boeing 707 with Pan Am November

de Havilland Sea Vixen to 700 Naval Air Squadron December

Lockheed L-188 Electra with American Airlines

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