This is a list of aviation-related events from 1969:
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Events
March
- March 3 - The United States Navy establishes TOPGUN.
- March 18-19 - the Royal Air Force airlifts 300 troops to Anguilla in response to the civil unrest that had broken out on the island.
May
- May 4-11 - the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's crossing. It is won by a Royal Navy F-4 Phantom, taking 4 hours 47 minutes.
- May 26 - the US Army cancels the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne program, worth $US 900 million.
June
- June 5 - US bombing of North Vietnam recommences, after a seven month ceasefire.
July
- No. 1 Squadron RAF became the first operational fixed wing VTOL squadron in the world
- July 20 - Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
August
- August 16 - Darryl Greenamyer sets a new piston-engine airspeed record in a heavily modified F8F Bearcat named Conquest I. His record speed of 478 mph (769 km/h) topples a record that had stood for 30 years.
- August 31 - World champion boxer Rocky Marciano dies when the plane in which he was a passenger crashes.
October
- October 20 - Finnair introduces an inertial navigation system on its aircraft, becoming the first airline to dispense with the need for a navigator aboard.
December
- December 18 - the England-Australia Commemorative Air Race is flown in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Smith brothers' flight. It is won by W. J. Bright and F. L. Buxton in a Britten-Norman Islander
First flights
February
- February 9 - Boeing 747
- February 12 - Mil Mi V-12
March
- Aero Boero AB-115
- March 2 - BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde
April
June
August
September
- September 15 - Cessna FanJet500, the prototype which led to the Cessna Citation.
- September 19 - Mil Mi-24, the most widely exported helicopter gunship.
Entered service
October
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