* 1977 – Gabriela Cano, Mexican actress

* 1977 – Ville Nieminen, Finnish hockey player

* 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player

* 1977 – Teddy Sears, American actor

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1977 – Jason Price, Welsh footballer

* 1977 – Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer

* 1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actor

* 1977 – Jeannie Haddaway, American politician

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer

* 1977 – Jennifer Lyons, American actress

* 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer

* 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer

* 1977 – Csaba Csordás, Hungarian footballer

* 1977 – Jason Frasor, American baseball player

* 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player

* 1977 – Adewale Ogunleye, American football player

* 1977 – Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer

* 1977 – Ime Udoka, Nigerian-American basketball player

* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

* The 1977 crash of a chartered DC-3 carrying the entire University of Evansville men's basketball team, in a field near the Evansville, Indiana airport.

On 28 October 1977, a Douglas DC-3 of Air Vietnam was hijacked to U-Tapao International Airport where the four hijackers surrendered.

The Air Atlantique name was adopted in June 1977 when freight charter flights were launched with Douglas DC-3 aircraft.

On 15 January 1977, Douglas DC-3 N73KW crashed shortly after take-off from Miami International Airport, Florida on a domestic scheduled passenger flight to Key West International Airport, Florida.

* 28 October 1977, a Douglas DC-3 was hijacked to U-Tapao International Airport where the four hijackers surrendered.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

* 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer ( b. 1894 )

In 1977, major aircraft companies and shipbuilding were nationalised.

* 1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse.

He authorized the GSG 9 anti-terrorist unit to end the Palestinian terrorist hijacking of the Lufthansa aircraft Landshut, undertaken to secure the release of RAF leaders imprisoned in Stuttgart, after it landed in Mogadishu by assaulting the aircraft during the German Autumn of 1977.

CATIA started as an in-house development in 1977 by French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault, at that time customer of the CAD / CAM CAD software to develop Dassault's Mirage fighter jet, then was adopted in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and other industries.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

From about 1977, aircraft simulators for Commercial Air Transport ( CAT ) aircraft were designed with ancillaries such as Instructor Operating Stations ( IOS ), computers, etc., being placed on the motion platform along with the replica cockpit, rather than being located off the motion platform.

Other aircraft assigned to Sawyer over the years included H-43B and HH-1H rescue helicopters of the 48th and 39th Air Rescue and Recovery Wings at Eglin AFB, Florida at the K. I. Sawyer Helicopter ( later re-designated Training ) Annex, 14 Mar 1975-1 Oct 1977.

The last aircraft assigned to Sawyer were six T-37 Tweet jet trainers of the 71st Flying Training Wing assigned to " Accelerated Copilot Enrichment Program " in 1977 and are presently assigned to the " Companion Trainer Program " under the 410 BW and the Air Combat Command.

In 1977 the KC-10 Extender was the second McDonnell Douglas transport aircraft to be selected for use by the US Air Force ; the first being the C-9 Nightingale / Skytrain II.

The Air New Zealand flyover service, for the purposes of Antarctic sightseeing, was operated with McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 aircraft and began in February 1977.

In August 1977 the F-111 aircraft and crews were transferred to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and the 474th Wing absorbed the F-4D Phantom II aircraft, crews, and resources of the inactivating provisional 4474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis in April 1977.

Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (; – February 9, 1977 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.

A Soviet Tupolev Tu-126 AEW aircraft in flight in 1977

* Learjet 28 / 29, the first production jet aircraft to use winglets ( 1977 )

Prunariu worked as a Diploma Engineer at " Industria Aeronautică Română IAR-Braşov ", an aircraft industry facility, prior to enrolling in the Romanian Air Force Officers Training School in 1977.

Reeve sold two of these aircraft to Peninsula Airways ( PenAir ) in 1977. In March 1949, four days ' notice was given that Shemya was to close.