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Keith Willshaw wrote:

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We know. It was the second short haul jet, the first being the French
Caravelle.

Deliveries began in 1965 , the Boeing 727 entered service in 1964
and the Tupolev TU-124 entered service between Moscow and
Ulyanovsk in December 1962

And - though for various reasons it didn't enter service - the Avro
Canada C-102 was flying at the end of the 1940s. That probably
as the best claim to being the first regional-distance jet. Next
one - the Tu-104, maybe?

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