1929 in aviation

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

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

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Cubana de Aviacion begins service.

Beacon Plaque

Airway Beacon Tower
Pan Am begins service.
The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is formed.
First official airmail to the Mackenzie District of Canada's western Arctic by bushpilot.
Airway Beacon is built in St. Paul, Minnesota. It still exists in Indian Mounds Park.

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 30 - Imperial Airways commences the first scheduled air service between England and India.

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 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 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 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.

October 20 - The airfield at the Glenview Naval Air Station, located in Glenview, IL, was dedicated, and its hangar was deemed the largest in the world.