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

• Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.

1 Events

• Cubana de Aviacion begins service.
• Pan Am begins service.

January

• January 1January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here a calendar year refers to the order in which the months are displayed, January to December. The first day of the medieval Julian year was usually a day other - PolishThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t airlineAn airline is an organization providing aviation services to passengers and/or cargo. It owns or leases airliners with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit. Airline service LOT formed.
• January 1- 7January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining (359 in leap years). The day is Jinjitsu , in Japan. Events 1325 Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 France takes Calais, the last continental possession of – Carl SpaatzCarl "Tooey" Spaatz ( June 28, 1891- July 14, 1974) was an American general in World War II. Carl Andrew Spatz (Spaatz added the second "a" in 1937 at the request of his wife and daughters to clarify the pronunciation of the name) was born on June 28, 189, Ira Eaker , and Elwood Quesada set an endurance record of 151 hours aloft in a Fokker F.VII a-3m.
• January 27January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 338 days remaining (339 in leap years). Events 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begin and later ends in their execution on January 31. 1785 The - 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.