Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/August in aviation/August 30
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- 1995 - Operation Deliberate Force is launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb forces. Two hundred sorties are flown during the first 24 hours, including the first combat missions flown by the Luftwaffe since World War II. Raids continued until September 14.
- 1994 - Lockheed and Martin Marietta announce their intention to merge. They will form Lockheed-Martin the following year.
- 1914 - Paris is bombed by a German aircraft for the first time - an Etrich Taube flown by Lt Ferdinand von Hiddessen.
