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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1984.

Events

  • Cirrus Aircraft founded

January

  • Frontier Horizon, a low-cost subsidiary of Frontier Airlines operating Boeing 727-100s, begins flight operations.
  • January 10 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 strikes a power line and crashes on approach to Sofia Airport in Sofia, Bulgaria, in heavy snow, killing all 50 people on board.
  • January 24 &ndash; A United States Air Force F-15A Eagle performs the first of five test launches of the ASM-135 anti-satellite missile. In this first launch, the missile does not carry its third stage, the Miniature Homing Vehicle (MHV) interceptor.

February

  • February 1
  • In the Iran–Iraq War, Iraq threatens air and missile attacks against Iranian cities, including Abadan, Ahwaz, Dezful, Ilam, and Kermanshah, and warns their residents to evacuate.
  • Iraqi Air Force aircraft attack a convoy of four Cypriot cargo ships – Breeze, Neptune, Skaros, and City of Rio – in the Persian Gulf near the Iranian port of Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni. Missile hits set fire to Breeze and Skaros, and they are lost, and Neptune also catches fire but is not seriously damaged. City of Rio strikes a naval mine and runs aground.
  • February 3 – Iran threatens air attacks against Basra, Kanaqin, and Mandali, Iraq.
  • February 21 – 14 hours and 2&nbsp;minutes after taking off from New York, Air France pilot Patrick Fourticq and his companion, race driver Henry Pescarolo, land their Piper Malibu in Paris, setting a world record for a trans-Atlantic flight by a single engined light aircraft.
  • February 27 – Iraqi aircraft raid the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island.
  • American Airlines sets an industry record by ordering 67 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 airliners, with options to order 100 more in the future.
  • Late February – Iraq threatens to attack any ship putting into the Iranian ports of Bushehr and Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni.

April

  • April 18 – An Iraqi Air Force missile strike slightly damages the empty 52,000-gross-ton Panamanian oil tanker Robert Star in the Persian Gulf while she is on her way to the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island.
  • May 16 – Two Iranian F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers circle the 215,000-gross-ton Saudi oil tanker Yanbu Pride, carrying 120,000 tons of Saudi crude oil in the Persian Gulf within Saudi Arabias territorial waters near the port of Jubail, to identify her, then fire five rockets at her. Two rockets strike Yanbu Pride, causing explosions and starting a fire in one of her holds that is quickly extinguished.
  • May 24
  • The Iraqi Air Force conducts a missile strike against the fully loaded, 140,000-ton Panamanian oil tanker Arizona in the Persian Gulf south of Kharg Island, narrowly missing her.
  • During an air show at Großostheim, West Germany, a Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR3 loses thrust at an altitude of after launching vertically for a demonstration flight, crashes next to the runway, and bursts into flames about away from the audience. Although the pilot ejects safely, the falling ejection seat kills a spectator.
  • June 5
  • Saudi F-15s, guided by U.S. Air Force E-3A Sentry aircraft, shoot down an Iranian jet flying over Saudi territorial waters. Iran ceases air operations over Saudi waters and never again challenges Saudi air defenses.
  • June 6 – Iraqi aircraft raid Dezful, Masjid-e Suleiman, and Nahavand, Iran.
  • The Rutan Voyager makes its first flight.
  • June 24 – The Iraqi Air Force attacks Kharg Island, damaging oil facilities at Sea Island on the western side of the island. One missile strikes the 152,000-gross-ton Greek oil tanker Alexander the Great, which is fully loaded with Iranian oil, penetrating an oil tank but failing to explode.

July

  • July 1 – An Iraqi Air Force missile attack damages the 6,200-gross-ton South Korean cargo ship Wonju-Ho in the Persian Gulf while she is on a voyage to the Iranian port of Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni and seriously damages the 13,000-gross-ton Greek cargo ship Alexander-Dyo. Two crewmen die and four suffer injuries.
  • July 3 – Air Florida suspends all its flights after declaring bankruptcy.
  • July 5 – Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force jets hit the Japanese-owned Liberian-registered supertanker Primrose with two rockets in the Persian Gulf. Primrose suffers no important damage and continues her voyage at full speed. With a total death toll of 49 people, it is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Bangladeshi soil.
  • August 7 – An Iraqi Air Force missile attack slightly damages the fully loaded 123,000-gross-ton Greek oil tanker Friendship L. in the Persian Gulf south of Kharg Island. A missile pierces one of Friendship L.s oil tanks and starts a small fire which spreads to her engine room and accommodation area, but is quickly extinguished.
  • August 30 – While taxiing out for takeoff at Douala International Airport outside Douala, Cameroon, Cameroon Airlines Flight 786, a Boeing 737-2H7C with 116 people on board, suffers an uncontained compressor failure in its number two engine which starts a fire. All on board evacuate the plane, although the fire kills two of them after they exit the cabin. The aircraft is destroyed.

September

  • September 4 – 61-year-old Elaine Yadwin, who is not a pilot, lands a Piper Cherokee Warrior II safely in Florida after her husband, the planes pilot, dies during the flight.
  • September 11 – An Iraqi Air Force Exocet anti-ship missile strikes the fully loaded 251,000-gross-ton Norwegian-owned, Liberian-registered oil tanker St. Tobias in the Persian Gulf south of Kharg Island, blowing a hole in her side and starting a small fire that is quickly extinguished. She heads for Abu Dhabi under her own power.
  • November 10 – Provincetown-Boston Airlines is grounded after the FAA withdrew its Air operator's certificate, claiming a number of violations of regulations. Following the resignation of its chief executive officer and vice president operations, operations by part of the airline's fleet resume on November 25.
  • November 13 &ndash; A United States Air Force F-15A Eagle performs the second of five test launches of the ASM-135 anti-satellite missile and the first in which the missile carries its third stage, the Miniature Homing Vehicle (MHV) interceptor. The missile fails when the MHV is pointed at a star, simulating the targeting of a satellite.
  • December 4 – An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-4 Phantom II fires rockets into a Kuwaitii supply boat operating in the Iraqi exclusion zone around Kharg Island.

First flights

February

  • February 6 – AIDC AT-3
  • February 14 – Cessna Citation S/II
  • February 15 – Cessna T-47
  • February 24 – Boeing 737-300

March

  • March 6 – Airship Industries Skyship 600

April

  • April 24 – Dornier SeaStar D-ICDS

May

  • May 7 – Pilatus PC-9

June

  • June 22 – Rutan Voyager

July

  • July 4 – Bell Twin Ranger
  • July 18 – Latécoère 225
  • September 17 – Avtek 400 N400AV

July

  • July 2 – Mirage 2000 with Escadron de Chasse 1/2

Retirements

  • Republic F-105 Thunderchief by the United States Air National Guard
  • Tupolev Tu-126 (NATO reporting name "Moss") by the Soviet armed forces

March

  • March 31 – Avro Vulcan