The airline used five DC-3 aircraft to launch scheduled operations on the Jeddah-Riyadh-Hofuf-Dhahran route in March 1947, followed by its first international service between Jeddah and Cairo also in that same month.

Indian society is traditionally divided into castes or clans, not ethnicities, and these categories have had no official status since Independence in 1947, except for the scheduled castes and tribes which remain registered for the purpose of positive discrimination.

In June 1947, after four non-title bouts, Robinson was scheduled to defend his title for the first time in a bout against Jimmy Doyle.

* May 7 – Kraft Television Theater premieres on NBC, the first regularly scheduled drama series on a network ( 1947 – 1958 ).

* May 9 – The first regularly scheduled American variety show, Hour Glass, premieres on NBC ( 1946 – 1947 ).

The deep underwater test, Charlie scheduled for early 1947, would take place in the ocean west of Bikini.

The first scheduled airline flights were Northwest and Trans-Canada in 1947 ; Western and United moved from Boeing Field in the next couple of years, and Pan Am in 1952 – 53, but West Coast stayed at Boeing Field until after the Hughes merger.

It was made into a film in 1947, with a remake starring Ben Stiller scheduled for release in 2013.

A third series of eight vintage Cooper scripts was scheduled to run in the summer of 1947 as well.

Due to BEA's inability to take over the UK domestic flights of independent scheduled operators such as Railway Air Services, Allied Airways ( Gandar Dower ) and British Channel Islands Airways on 1 August, these independents continued to ply their scheduled routes under contract to BEA until they were absorbed into the corporation in 1947.

1947 was also the year BEA operated its first scheduled all-cargo flight from Northolt to Brussels with a DC-3 freighter.

Following the inauguration of scheduled services between Land's End in Cornwall and St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly in 1947, BEA continued serving this route with Dragon Rapides due to a lack of a suitable fixed-wing alternative until BEA Helicopters took it over on 2 May 1964.

* On 15 April 1947, de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AHKR crashed into Slieau Ruy while operating a scheduled passenger flight from Speke Airport, Liverpool, Lancashire to Ronaldsway Airport, Isle of Man.

East Anglian Flying Services moved to Southend on 5 January 1947, their first scheduled service being a Southend — Rochester feeder service.

Green End Farmhouse predated the Knibbs ' ownership of the farm and was a scheduled monument under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947.

Tractors were scheduled to arrive by February 1947, but only 16 smaller tractors had reached the site by April.

Eugene Talmadge was elected governor once again in 1946, but he died a month before he was scheduled to take office in January 1947.

Straffan station was last used for scheduled services in 1947 and the last special train stopped at Straffan in 1963.

Filming began in early 1947 in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, but Selznick was unhappy with the results and scheduled re-shoots as well as hiring and firing five different writers before the film was completed in October 1948.

From early 1946 to June 1947, the U. S. Army Disciplinary Barracks for convicted criminals was located at Camp Gordon, and the installation was scheduled for deactivation.

In December 1947 a Southwest Airways DC-3 flying into the airport made the world's first blind landing on a scheduled commercial airliner using Ground-Controlled Approach ( GCA ) radar, Instrument Landing System ( ILS ) devices and Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation ( FIDO ) oil-burning units adjacent to the runway.

A full meeting of the Central Executive Committee was scheduled for 6 March 1947 at which the complaints against Lai Teck were to be aired in his presence.

Due to the baby boom and passing of a $ 25 million building levy by the school district in 1947, 29 portables dating back to World War I were scheduled for replacement.

Starting in 1947, the Soviets, also with the help of German teams, launched sub-orbital V-2 rockets and their own variant, the R-1, including radiation and animal experiments on some flights.

After the war United Airlines used the Pan Am terminal for its DC-6 flights to Hawaii starting in 1947.

From 1947 until September 2012, there were 96 known stowaway attempts worldwide in wheel wells of 85 separate flights, which resulted in 73 deaths with only 23 survivors.

Trans World Airlines ( TWA ) and United Airlines flights to San Francisco / Oakland and Los Angeles moved from Chandler Field to Fresno Air Terminal in 1947 ; TWA ceased serving Fresno in 1963.

In the winter of 1946 – 47, Reeve filed with the CAA for a license to operate on the run between Anchorage and Attu, and in the summer of 1947 he was making weekly flights down the chain.

By 2 November 1947, all of the corporation's London – Guernsey flights had moved from Croydon to Northolt as well.

Drew also helped spur post-war immigration to Ontario from 1947 to 1948 by setting up immigration offices throughout the United Kingdom and initiating cheap charter flights to bring an estimated 20, 000 British immigrants to the province in what has been called the world's first mass migration by air.

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to be the first person to break the sound barrier.

The September 1947 ABC Guide shows 27 passenger flights a week west across the North Atlantic to the US and Canada on BOAC and other European airlines and 151 flights every two weeks on Pan Am, AOA, TWA and TCA.

Civil flights recommenced at the airport in 1947, after Geoff Rennard fought for Leeds and Bradford to have an aerodrome, and eventually gained permission for an Aero Club.

On 29 June 1947, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines began domestic flights between Burgas, Plovdiv and Sofia, using Junkers Ju 52 / 3m aircraft.

The airline was formed in 1947 to feed into flights by Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux and Air France, and upon the independence of Madagascar, it became the national airline.

Air Madagascar was formed in March 1947 by Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux in order to feed into flights by TAI and Air France.

* 6th Bombardment Group ( Very Heavy ) ( June 1947 – October 1948 ) ( B-29 ) Participated in show-of-force flights over Japan and dropped food and other relief supplies to newly freed Allied prisoners of war.

Blackburn, however, maintains that a record on the Muroc radar theodolite, of the two flights Welch made on November 13, 1947 indicated supersonic flights, as well, noting 20 minutes before the X-1 broke the record, a sonic boom was heard over the desert, centered on the Happy Bottom Riding Club, dude ranch restaurant and hotel operated by Pancho Barnes.

It was initiated by NZ National Airways Corporation in 1947 using Short Sunderlands but after a survey, was taken over by TEAL in 1951 with the inaugural Auckland — Suva and Suva — Labasa flights in June.

Following 27 flights by the Navy and Douglas the second D-558-1 aircraft was delivered to the NACA in November 1947.

The ABC Guide for September 1947 shows six flights a week from Sydney to England: three Lancastrians that took 77 hr 30 min to Heathrow and three flying boats that took 168 hr 55 min to Poole.

NAC began regular commercial flights between Whangarei and Auckland in 1947.