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Years in aviation:	1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
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Years:	1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972

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

Events

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 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 5 - US bombing of North Vietnam recommences, after a seven month ceasefire.
June 16 - USS PCF 19 is sunk by friendly fire from US aircraft. Five of her crew are killed. HMAS Hobart is also attacked with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, and two crewmen killed.
June 17 - USS Edson, USS Boston, USCGC Point Dume and two US patrol boats are attacked by US aircraft friendly fire in the Vietnam War.

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 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 his plane, which he was piloting himself, crashes.

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 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

September 15 - Cessna FanJet500, the prototype which led to the Cessna Citation.

October

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