1929 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1929:
- Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
Events
- Cubana de Aviacion begins service.
- Pan Am begins service.
- The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is formed.
January
- January 1 - Polish airline LOT formed.
- January 1-7 – Carl Spaatz, Ira Eaker, and Elwood Quesada set an endurance record of 151 hours aloft in a Fokker F.VIIa-3m.
- January 27 - USS Saratoga carries out a successful simulated dawn raid on the Panama Canal in a training exercise.
March
- March 30 - Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between England and India.
April
- April 24-26 - Sqn Ldr A. G. Jones-Wiliams and Flt Lt N. H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from England to India using a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane
July
- July 3 - Lt A. W. Gordon hooks a Vought VO-1 onto US Navy airship USS Los Angeles in successful parasite fighter experiments.
- July 7 - Transcontinental Air Transport commences a regular service transporting passengers right across the United States in 48 hours, using a combination of trains and aircraft for different legs of the journey.
- July 22 - Lufthansa uses a catapult to launch a Heinkel He 12 mailplane from the passenger liner Bremen, 400 km (249 miles) out of New York, speeding the mail on its way before the ship reached port.
August
- August 4 - 16 - the first International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1929 in Paris, with 5,942 km race over Europe, won by the German crew of Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23 plane.
- August 8-29 airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight, from and to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
September
- September 6 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Calshot Spit, UK. Won by Flt. Off. Henry Waghorn in a Supermarine S.6 at 528.9 km/h (328.7 mph).
- September 24 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle makes a completely blind take-off, flight, and landing.
- September 29 - Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte arrive in Manchuria in a Breguet 19, having set a new distance record of 7,905 km (4,912 miles) from Le Bourget, France.
November
- November 27-28 - Richard Byrd and crew make the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford Trimotor.
First flights
January
July
September
October
November
Entered service
May
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