1969 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1969:

Table of contents

1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

First flights

• March 2 - The Concorde supersonic aircraft makes its first test flight, in Bristol, England.
• Boeing 747 is unveiled. At the time the largest passenger carrying aircraft ever built and one which was to revolutionise commercial air travel.
• July: Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
• World champion boxer Rocky Marciano perishes when his plane, which he was piloting himself, crashes.

Entered service