Milestones in U. S. Naval Aviation

This section provides a year-at-a-glance summary of events related to U. S. naval aviation.

Two types of events are listed.

The first, in the Ships & Aircraft column, are actions directly involving carriers and carrier-based aircraft. For ships, these are launches, commissionings, losses and so forth. For aircraft, these include items such as test flights, entry into squadron service and retirements.

The second, Events, involves administrative, political and combat actions. Administrative and political actions, marked by the quill pen symbol (

), include things such as treaties, laws, declarations of war, fleet reorganisations and authorisations for carrier/aircraft construction and procurement. Combat actions (

) are battles, campaigns and invasions. Other events of significance may be marked by an appropriate event symbol. National flags will indicate the countries involved.

This section is separated into several pages, each corresponding with a specific time period, as used elsewhere on the site.

Page/Period	Years
Timeline
To 1920	1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1921-1940	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1941-1945	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1948 1948 1949
1946-1960	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1961-Present	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Dedication

Milestones in U. S. Naval Aviation