She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic.

* 1965 – After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.

During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a radar station on top of Ward Hill during the battle of the Atlantic.

* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

During the Cold War, Naval Air Station Keflavik played an important role in monitoring marine and submarine traffic from the Norwegian and Greenland Seas into the Atlantic Ocean.

A U. S. Army Air Corps bomber flying out of a secret South Atlantic airbase on Ascension Island attacked the U-boat.

* 1957 – Michael Cretu, Romanian-German musician and producer ( Moti Special, Enigma, and Trance Atlantic Air Waves )

The national flag carrier of Nigeria is now Air Nigeria, in which Virgin Atlantic owns 49 % and the remaining 51 % by Nigerian investors.

The largest of these installations were the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, and the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility ( AFWTF ) on Vieques ( all now closed ), the National Guard training facility at Camp Santiago in Salinas, the Army's Fort Buchanan in San Juan, the former U. S. Air Force Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, and the Puerto Rico Air National Guard at Muñiz Air Force base in San Juan.

* On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean following instrument failure, making it the deadliest crash in Air France history.

* June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31, 000 feet ( 9, 500 m ) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.

Pratt and Whitney's customers include United Airlines, Air India, Martinair, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and JetBlue.

* June 23, 1985: Air India Flight 182 bombing over the Atlantic Ocean-329 killed

He obtained a contract with the French firm L ' Air Liquide to import the new scuba equipment into the US for sale on the Pacific coast ( SPACO had the contract for the Atlantic coast ).

* Atlantic Coast Airlines, later Independence Air

In late 2005 / early 2006, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic came forward about their involvement in large price-fixing schemes for cargo and passenger surcharges in which 21 airlines were involved since 2000 ( amongst which were British Airways, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM ).

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.

* Royal Canadian Air Force

* C-12 Huron / RC-12 Guardrail / CT-145 Super King Air Super King Air for US and Canadian Militaries.

Later this same year, the Royal Canadian Air Force placed an additional order for 180 T-50s.

* 1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.

* 1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.

It carried an 11-man crew, with Kenneth C. Maclure of the Royal Canadian Air Force in charge of all scientific observations.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

* Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

* Canadian Special Air Service Company, a Canadian unit from 1947 to 1949

His government also made the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a crown corporation in 1936, created Trans-Canada Airlines ( the precursor to Air Canada ) in 1937, and formed the National Film Board of Canada in 1939.

To re-arm Canada he built the Royal Canadian Air Force as a viable military power, while at the same time keeping it separate from Britain's Royal Air Force.

* Ada Air, regional airline based in Tirana, Albania

* Atlas Air, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York

* Air Paradise, a defunct Indonesian airline by IATA code

* AI, IATA airline designator for Air India

* Air Botswana UK-The national airline of Botswana

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

Recently formed from the failed Air Ivoire, the airline operates an aging fleet of Western-built aircraft.

* Capitol Air Lines, a U. S. charter airline in the 1970s and 1980s

The national airline was Air Comores.

The national carrier of France is Air France, a full service global airline which flies to 20 domestic destinations and 150 international destinations in 83 countries ( including Overseas departments and territories of France ) across all 6 major continents.

Air Berlin became second largest airline in recent years by absorbing LTU and dba.

* Air Georgian, an airline based in Ontario, Canada

Both airports are home to the country's national airline, Air Jamaica.

* Air São Tomé and Príncipe's IATA airline designator

* Druk Air ( IATA code: KB ), the national airline of Bhutan

Air Malawi Limited is the national airline of Malawi which operates regional passenger service.

Air Mali was liquidated in April 2003, but intercontinental services from Bamako are provided by Air France and a Belgian airline, among others.

The national airline is Air Malta

* Japan Transocean Air IATA airline designator

Air New Zealand is the only airline serving Niue, with a weekly flight from Auckland.

* 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

A jet of the national airline, Air Senegal International.

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (), formerly Ülemiste Airport is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline Estonian Air.