1929 in aviation
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1924\n|-\n|align=center|
1925\n|-\n|align=center|
1926\n|-\n|align=center|
1927\n|-\n|align=center|
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1929\n|-\n|align=center|
1930\n|-\n|align=center|
1931\n|-\n|align=center|
1932\n|-\n|align=center|
1933\n|-\n|align=center|
1934\n|}
This is a list of
aviation-related events from
1929:
Events
\nJanuary\n* January 1 - Polish airline LOT formed.\n* January 1-7 – Carl Spaatz, Ira Eaker, and Elwood Quesada set an endurance record of 151 hours aloft in a Fokker F.VIIa-3m.\n* January 27 - USS Saratoga carries out a successful simulated dawn raid on the Panama Canal in a training exercise.
March\n* March 30 - Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between England and India.
April\n* 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\n* July 3 - Lt A. W. Gordon hooks a Vought VO-1 onto US Navy airship USS Los Angeles in successful parasite fighter experiments.\n* 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.\n* 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\n* August 8-29 airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight, from and to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
September\n* 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).\n* September 24 - Lt James Doolittle makes a completely blind take-off, flight, and landing. \n* 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\n* November 27-28 - Richard Byrd and crew make the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford Trimotor.
First flights
\nJanuary\n* Gloster Gauntlet
July\n* July 29 - Dornier Do X
September\n* September 9 - De Havilland Puss Moth
November\n* November 6 - Junkers G.38
Entered service
\nMay\n* Bristol Bulldog with No.3 Squadron RAF
