It's Christmas Day, and I didn't get any presents, so I thought I'd sit back with a glass of Old Curmudgeon's and test my remembory of the year past.
Anniversaries
100 years: powered vertical flight (Paul Cornu)...75 years: (Hawker) Beechcraft (and 60 years for the Bonanza)...50 years: Boeing 707
Milestones
8,000th Cessna piston single (since restart)...7,000th Boeing 737 (order)...5,000th Airbus (33 years) and Cessna Citation (35 years)...3,000th Boeing widebody...1,000th Boeing 777 (order) and Cessna CitationJet (delivery)
First flights
Lockheed CATBird (Jan)...Piasecki X-49A (Jun)...Boeing X-48B (Jul)...Embraer Phenom 100 (Jul)...Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (Aug)...Kawasaki XP-1
Rolled out (but not flown)
Boeing 787 (Jul)...Kawasaki C-X (Jul)...Sukhoi Superjet 100(Sep)...Lockheed Martin F-35B (Dec)...ACAC ARJ21 (Dec)