One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University

1994
Galeb attack aircraft over Bosnia during the first combat in North
Atlantic Treaty Organization history.
April 10: Two F–16 Fighting Falcons struck a Bosnian Serb command post
near Gorazde in Serbia after Bosnian Serbs attacked United Nations
personnel in the enclave. This was the first close air support mission of
Operation DENY FLIGHT and the first air-to-ground bombing in the
history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
April 14: Two F–15 Eagles of the 53d Fighter Squadron mistakenly shot
down two Army UH–60 Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq,
killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.
May 3: The last B–52G Stratofortress went into storage at Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base, Arizona. The only B–52s left in the active USAF inventory
were H models.
May 6: 1st Lt. Leslie DeAnn Crosby became the first Air Force Reserve
woman fighter pilot after she graduated from an F–16 Fighting Falcon
training course in Tucson, Arizona.
June 26: A 60th Military Airlift Wing C–5 Galaxy airlifted a 34-ton magneticresonance
imaging system to Chernobyl, Ukraine, to help medical personnel
treat victims of a 1986 nuclear accident.
June 29: A U.S. space shuttle visited the Russian space station Mir for the
first time.
June 30: United States Air Forces in Europe ended its presence in Berlin,
Germany, after 46 years.
July 1: Responsibility for maintaining the readiness of the nation’s intercontinental
ballistic missile force transferred from Air Combat Command
to Air Force Space Command, which had previously assumed
responsibility for missile warning, space surveillance, space launch,
and satellite control.
July 1: The 184th Bombardment Group in Kansas became the first Air
National Guard unit to be equipped with the B–1B Lancer.
July 22: As part of Operation SUPPORT HOPE, a humanitarian-relief operation
for refugees from the Rwandan civil war, C–5s and C–141s began
airlifting equipment and supplies from Germany to Uganda and
Kenya. C–130s transported the cargo from there to refugee camps in
Zaire. By August 7, they had delivered 3,660 tons of relief cargo. At
least 22 airlift wings and groups participated.
August 2: Two B–52 Stratofortresses of the 2d Bombardment Wing on a
show-of-force mission to Kuwait set a world record circumnavigating
Earth. The 47-hour flight took five aerial refuelings and delivered 54
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