1 November 1928 (USA) — Stout Air Services starts six times weekly passenger service between Detroit and Chicago, 252 miles.

1 November 1944 (USA) — The International Civil Aviation Conference opens in Chicago, Illinois.

1 November 1943 (Tunisia) — The Fifteenth Air Force (15^th AF) was in Tunis, Tunisia as part of the United States Army Air Forces in the World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations as a strategic air force and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed 2/11/1943.) The first commander was General Jimmy Doolittle.

1 November 1949 (USA) — The Bell Aircraft Corporation announces its 12-passenger helicopter with all-metal fuselage, engineered to use either a 600 or 800-hp engine to cruise at more than 100-mph.

1 November 1949 (USA) — American Aviation reports commercial transport aircraft backlog that $96,259,000.

1 November 1949 (USA) — The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II United States Air Force heavy transport, goes on the pre-flight line. The aircraft weighs 175,000 pounds and features a built-in ramp and clamshell doors.

1 November 1949 (USA) — An Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 and a military Lockheed P-38 Lightning crash at Washington National Airport, killing 55 persons.

1 November 1954 (USA) — The United States Air Force retires its last Boeing B-29 Superfortress from service.

1 November 1957 (USA) — The Bell GAM-63 Rascal air-to-surface guided missile officially becomes operational with the Strategic Air Command at Pinecastle AFB, Florida.