Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in the 1940s

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1940s
1940	Lovettsville air disaster (August 1940)
1941	Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 (February 1941) Northwest Airlines Flight 5 (October 1941)
1942	TWA Flight 3 (January 1942) American Airlines Flight 28 (October 1942)
1943	Pan Am Flight 1104 (January 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) (July 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Missouri) (October 1943) Tamaqua, PA crash (November 1943)
1944	American Airlines Flight 2 (February 1944) TWA Flight 277 (June 1944) South Portland A-26 Invader crash (July 1944)
1945	American Airlines Flight 6001 (January 1945) Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 (July 1945) National Airlines Flight 16 (October 1945)
1946	Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105 (January 1946) Mount Tom B-17 crash (July 9 1946) TWA Flight 513 (July 11 1946)
1947	United Air Lines Flight 521 (May 29 1947) Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 (May 30 1947) Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 (June 1947) United Air Lines Flight 608 (October 24 1947) Pan Am Flight 923 (October 26 1947)*
1948	Mantell UFO incident (January 7 1948) Los Gatos DC-3 crash (January 28 1948) Delta Air Lines Flight 705 (March 10 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 (March 12 1948) United Air Lines Flight 624 (June 1948) Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash (July 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 421 (August 1948) Georgia USAF Boeing B-29 crash (October 1948) Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance (December 1948)
1949	Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash (June 1949) Standard Air Lines Flight 897R (July 1949) Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 (November 1 1949) American Airlines Flight 157 (November 29 1949)
This list is incomplete. An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that took place in a U.S. territory, including Alaska and Hawaii prior to statehood..