Nigger was the name given to a black Labrador dog that belonged to British Royal Air Force Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1940s.

* December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a chartered McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, crashes shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland ( now Newfoundland and Labrador ), while taking 248 soldiers of the United States Armys 101st Airborne Division from West Germany to the United States for Christmas, killing all 256 people on board.

Italian Air Force General Italo Balbo led a group of 25 Savoia-Marchetti S-55X seaplanes, powered by twin Isotta-Fraschini Asso engines, from Orbetello, Italy, to Amsterdam, Iceland, Labrador, and Chicago.

SAC immediately ordered the group's other two squadrons to Goose Bay Air Base, Labrador to prepare for immediate deployment to Germany.

* August 31 – Six United States Army Air Service aviators flying Douglas World Cruisers arrive in Labrador, completing the transatlantic leg of their first aerial circumnavigation of the world.

After briefly allowing nuclear weapons to be temporarily stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada agreed to a long term lease of the Goose Bay base to the US Strategic Air Command.

Canada hosted no intercontinental strategic bombers but the Strategic Air Command base at Goose Bay Labrador hosted a large number of KC-135 air refueling tankers.

* Air Labrador

* Air Labrador

Flights to Nain are at Nain Airport, and are available from Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Air Labrador and Provincial Airlines.

That year, EPA's bush operations were sold to some senior staff as a separate airline-Labrador Airways, now Air Labrador.

Labrador Airways Limited, operating as Air Labrador, is a regional airline based in Goose Bay ( CFB Goose Bay ), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

It was purchased in 1983 by Provincial Investments Inc., owned by Roger Pike, along with associate company, Labrador Aviation Services Ltd. Air Labrador was owned by the Pike Family, but then taken over by Philip Earle in 2010.

On February 3, 2012, the company announced that the Nunatsiavut Government bought a 51 % share in Air Labrador.

Air Labrador operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations ( as of July 2012 ):

Air Labrador Dash 8 at Sept-Îles Airport ( aircraft now retired from the fleet )

As of July 2012 Transport Canada listed 10 aircraft registered to Air Labrador.

The 64th AD continued to train and provided air defense combat ready forces for the aerospace defense of of North America, including 24 eastern states, Puerto Rico, Greenland, as well as the Atlantic providences of Canada for ADCOM by commanding the Goose Air Defense Sector ( Manual ) at Goose Air Force Base, Labrador, Canada.

The first settlers to the area came from coastal Labrador to work with McNamara Construction Company, which was contracted to build the Goose Bay Air Force Base.

There were ticket offices for Eastern Provincial Airways, Air Canada, Gander Aviation and Labrador Airways, a large waiting area, a secure departure lounge, a self-serve restaurant, a licensed lounge, a number of food concessions and car rental facilities.

The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

* 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

A year later on July 18, August 4, and August 25, the US Eighth Air Force conducted three additional Peenemünde raids to counter suspected hydrogen peroxide production.

Depending on the category of airspace in which the flight is being conducted, VFR aircraft may be required to have a transponder to help Air Traffic Control identify the aircraft on radar in order that ATC can provide separation to IFR aircraft.

* Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted killing in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force on March 22, 2004.

* Grissom Hall at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, where Minuteman missile maintenance training was conducted.

Subsequent SEAL operations during the invasion of Afghanistan were conducted within Task Force K-Bar, a joint special operations unit of Army Special Forces, United States Air Force Special Tactics Teams, and special operations forces from Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Turkey, under the command of Navy SEAL Captain Robert Harward.

She conducted research with the National Institute of Mental Health, the United States Air Force and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early experiments using rockets to boost gliders into the air were conducted in Germany in the 1920s ( Lippisch Ente ), and later both the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe introduced such systems in World War II.

Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was conducted by about 178 Free French paratroops of the 4th Special Air Service ( SAS ), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, southern Brittany, in Plumelec, at 1130 on the night of 5 June and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

While a nuclear penetrator ( the " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ", or " RNEP ") was never built, the U. S. DOE was allotted budget to develop it, and tests were conducted by the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

The bombing of Tokyo, often referred to as a " firebombing ", was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.

It was the only mission in the Pioneer program carried out by the United States Air Force, as subsequent missions were conducted by NASA.

* Space Test Program, a program conducted by the USAF Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base

The tests were conducted successfully and assured the nation of access to space for Air Force launch vehicles.

On 5 March 1965, the last test launch of a Titan I ICBM conducted by the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg was successful.

LGM-30F Minuteman II testing began in August 1965 with the first launch conducted by Air Force Systems Command, was successful.

Air Force Systems Command conducted the final Peacekeeper launch from the aboveground TP-01 launch pad on 30 June 1985.

are used for year-round training conducted by the U. S. National Guard, as well as active and reserve components of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy.

Construction of facilities was conducted by the 4224th Air Base Squadron until October 20, 1952, when the base was turned over to the 340th Bombardment Wing.

After being awarded his " Wings ", he moved onto more advanced training on the Sea King helicopter, and conducted operational flying training until 1982, when he joined his first front-line unit, 820 Naval Air Squadron, serving aboard the aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.

Air interdiction missions are conducted against preplanned targets or targets of opportunity.

While at Cannon, the units conducted ground attack training for Air Force pilots.

* Air search providing aerial spotting for the emergency services, such as conducted by the Civil Air Patrol in the US, or Sky Watch in the UK.