Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/August 30

• 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11 (pictured), its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

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