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1968 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968:
Events
January
- January 21 - a US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashes in the sea near Thule Air Base Greenland, carrying four nuclear weapons.
March
- March 27 - Yuri Gagarin is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
May
- May 5 - a Grumman Gulfstream II becomes the first executive jet to cross the Atlantic
August
- August 13 - Swedish Count Gustav von Rosen defies Nigerian air defences to fly in supplies to the Biafran rebels
- August 31 - the Rolls-Royce RB.211 is successfully ground-tested
September
- September 11 - Air New Zealand flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's navigator to Sydney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
- September 30 - the first Boeing 747 is rolled out
December
- December 24 - Apollo 8 orbits the moon carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.
First flights
May
June
July
- Nord N 500 (tethered)
September
November
December
- December 3 - Anahuac Tauro XB-TAX
- December 31 - Tupolev Tu-144
Entered service
February
- Boeing 737 with Lufthansa
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