Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 26
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- 1983 - a Learjet 55 sets a world speed record in its class of 448 mph (722 km/h) over the 5,655 mile (9,101 km) between Los Angeles and Le Bourget.
- 1972 - the United States and Soviet Union sign the SALT-1 strategic arms limitation treaty
- 1972 - Cessna builds its 100,000th aircraft, the first company in the world to achieve this figure.
- 1970 - the Tupolev Tu-144 exceeds Mach 2 in level flight, the first commercial aircraft to do so.
- 1969 - the US Army cancels the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne production contract, worth $US 900 million.
- 1965 - Sir Geoffery de Havilland dies aged 82.
- 1941 - Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm aircraft play a key role in finding and sinking the German battleship Bismarck.
- 1915 - Oberleutnant Kästner and Lt Georg Langhoff score the first German air-to-air victory of World War I.
