This is a list of aviation-related events from 1960:

Events

January

• January 1 - Fiji Airways is reconstituted, becoming equally owned by BOAC, QANTAS, and Tasman Empire Airways.

February

• February 9 - the US Air Force opens its National Space Surveillance Control Centre at Bedford, Massachusetts.
• February 13 - France detonates its first nuclear weapon

April

• April 6 - the Short SC.1 makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back.
• April 10 - BOAC re-opens its air routes to Cairo. They had been suspended at the time of the Suez Crisis.
• April 13 - the United Kingdom terminates ballistic missile research, preferring to simply purchase the US-developed Skybolt missile.

May

• May 1 - CIA pilot Gary Powers is captured by the Soviet Union when his Lockheed U-2 is shot down near Sverdlovsk
• May 12 - a USAF C-130 Hercules drops a record 35,000 lb (15,876 kg) by parachute.

June

• June 1 - Trans-Canadian Air Lines begins transatlantic services, flying between Montreal and London

July

• July 1 - British United Airways is formed
• July 9 - Sabena begins airlifting Belgian nationals out of Congo. Over the next three weeks, 25,711 will fly home

August

• August 12 - Maj Robert White (USAF), pilots the North American X-15 to a record altitude of 136,500 ft (41,600 m)
• August 16 - Captain (later Colonel) Joseph Kittinger (USAF) sets a world record for highest parachute jump (102,200 ft or 31,150m) and longest parachute freefall (84,700 ft or 25,815 m) while testing high altitude parachute escape systems in Project Excelsior.
• August 18 - a C-119 Flying Boxcar recovers a data capsule from the Discoverer 14 satellite in mid-air.

September

• September 10 - NORAD carries out Operation Sky Shield, testing US and Canadian radar systems.
• September 15 - Tasman Empire Airways retires its last flying boat from service.
• September 17 - East African Airways commences jet services between London and Nairobi

October

• October 27 - Air Mali is established
• October 31 - BEA retires its last piston-engined airliners.

First flights

January

• Mil Mi-8
• January 14 - Piper Cherokee

February

• February 5 - PZL TS-11 Iskra
• February 29 - Beechcraft Baron

April

• April 19 - Grumman A2F-1, A-6 Intruder prototype

June

• June 24 - Avro 748

October

• Dassault Mirage IIIC (production model)
• October 21 - Hawker P.1127 (tethered flight)

November

• November 16 - Canadair CL-44

December

• December 6 - Sikorsky S-61

Entered service

June

• June 29 - English Electric Lightning with No. 74 Squadron RAF at RAF Coltishall