This is a list of aviation-related events from 1929:

Years in aviation: 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932

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January

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February

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March

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  • March 2 – Seeking a safe route across the Andes between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, to avoid the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) detour aircraft routinely made to avoid the mountains, a Latécoère 25 piloted by Jean Mermoz and carrying his mechanic, Alexandre Collenot, and Count Henry de La Vaulx as passengers is caught in a downdraft and forced to land on a 300-meter-wide (986-foot-wide) plateau at an altitude of 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). The three men spend four days repairing and lightening the plane and clearing a path to the edge of the plateau, after which they roll it off the edge, Mermoz dives to gain airspeed, and they arrive safely in Santiago. The event is widely celebrated.
  • March 13 – The Spanish government airline CLASSA is formally established as a company, formed by the merger of Iberia and several other Spanish airlines.
  • March 17 – The Colonial Western Airways Ford 4-AT-B Trimotor NC7683 suffers a double engine failure during its initial climb after takeoff from Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey. It fails to gain height and crashes into a railroad freight car loaded with sand, killing 14 of the 15 people on board the aircraft. At the time, this is the deadliest airplane accident in American history.[8][9]
  • March 19 – The newly completed Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor NC9674, which had made its first flight only five days earlier, crashes when its wing strikes the ground on landing while it returns to Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, during a Ford Motor Company flight prior to delivery to its customer. All four people on board die.[10]
  • March 30 – Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between the United Kingdom and British India.

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  • May 16 – At the first Academy Awards ceremony, the first award in history for Outstanding Picture (later renamed "Best Picture") goes to an aviation-themed film, the 1927 silent film Wings about two fighter pilots in World War I.[13]
  • May 20 – The Peruvian Army's aviation branch and the Peruvian Navy's Naval Aviation Corps are combined to form the Peruvian Aviation Corps, forerunner of the Peruvian Air Force.
  • May 25 – The Spanish government airline CLASSA officially assumes all the rights, obligations, fleets, and staff of Iberia and the other airlines that merged to form it.
  • May 26 – Flying a Junkers W 34 be/b3e (registration D-1119), Friedrich W. Neuenhofen sets a new world altitude record, reaching 12,739 meters (41,795 feet).
  • May 30 – Logan Field is opened at Baltimore, Maryland.[7]

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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First flights

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January

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February

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Entered service

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February

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June

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October

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Retirements

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Notes

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  1. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 95.
  2. ^ Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909–1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55750-432-6, p. 40.
  3. ^ Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849–1922, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87021-210-9, p. 106.
  4. ^ century-of-flight.net Century of Flight: History of the Helicopter: Contributions of the Autogyro
  5. ^ Allen, Richard Sanders, Revolution in the Sky: Those Fabulous Lockheeds, The Pilots Who Flew Them, Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964, p. 53.
  6. ^ a b Daniels, C. M., "Speed: The Story of Frank Hawks," Air Classics, Vol. 6, No. 2, December 1969, p. 47.
  7. ^ a b Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 58.
  8. ^ Larkins, William T. (1958). The Ford Story: A Pictorial History of the Ford Tri-Motor, 1927-1957. Wichita, Kansas: Robert R. Longo Company. p. 133. hdl:2027/mdp.39015002911553. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  9. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  10. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  11. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  12. ^ O'Connor, Derek, "Going Long," Aviation History, March 2016, p. 53.
  13. ^ Anonymous, "Today in History," The Washington Post Express, May 16, 2013, p. 26.
  14. ^ O'Connor, Derek, "Italy's Consummate Showman," Aviation History, July 2014, p. 51.
  15. ^ A Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation: The Early Years, 1915–1938.
  16. ^ "First Flights". www.deltamuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  17. ^ O'Connor, Derek, "The Other Franco," Aviation History, January 2018, p. 59.
  18. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 108.
  19. ^ a b O'Brien, Lora, "Lady Heath," Aviation History, March 2016, p. 15.
  20. ^ Sturtivant, Ray, British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917–1990, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87021-026-2, p. 14.
  21. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  22. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  23. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 462.
  24. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  25. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  26. ^ Althoff, William F. Drift Station: Arctic outposts of superpower science (Potomac Books Inc., Dulles, Virginia. 2007. p. 35)
  27. ^ "Carl Ben Eielson" (PDF). University of Alaska Anchorage. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  28. ^ "Carl Ben Eielson: The Father of Alaskan Aviation - 1897–1929". USAF Fact Sheet. May 2006. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  29. ^ a b "planecrashinfo.com Famous People Who Died in Aviation Accidents: 1920s". Archived from the original on 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  30. ^ Thetford, Owen, British Naval Aircraft Since 1912, Sixth Edition, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991, ISBN 1-55750-076-2, p. 127.
  31. ^ "La traversée de l'Atlantique Sud par Léon Challe". 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
  32. ^ O'Connor, Derek, "Going Long," Aviation History, March 2016, pp. 52, 54.
  33. ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 72.
  34. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 257.
  35. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 425.
  36. ^ a b c Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 78.
  37. ^ "Pietenpol Aircraft Company - Pietenpol Air Camper History". pietenpolaircraftcompany.com. Pietenpol Aircraft Company. Retrieved June 20, 2017. By now Henry Ford had come out with his new car, the Model A, powered by a bigger four cylinder engine. At an estimated 40 horsepower, this engine seemed just the thing for Bernard Pietenpol's new aircraft design's needs, and having been on the market for several years, junk yards were starting to get as many of them as Model T engines...So Bernard Pietenpol went to work converting the Ford Model A engine for his new monoplane. In May 1929 Bernard Pietenpol test flew his Air Camper with the new engine. It was a complete success – a perfect match of airframe to power plant.
  38. ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 433.
  39. ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 125.
  40. ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, pp. 124-125.
  41. ^ Polmar, Norma, "Historic Aircraft: The Hall Contribution," Naval History, February 2014, p. 15.
  42. ^ rafmuseum.org.uk "Handley Page Hyderabad and Hinaidi"