Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 29
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- 1987 - Mathias Rust, 19 years old, a West German pilot, shocks people by landing his Cessna 172 plane in Red Square, Moscow.
- 1952 - aerial refueling is used on a combat mission for the first time, with twelve F-84 Thunderjets of the 159th Fighter Bomber Squadron being refueled by a KB-29 Superfortress on their way to Sariwon
- 1951 - Cpt C. Blair makes the first solo flight over the North Pole, in a P-51 Mustang
- 1944 - aircraft carrier USS Block Island is torpedoed and sunk near the Azores. She is the only US Navy carrier lost in the Atlantic.
- 1941 - the USAAC forms Ferrying Command to fly newly manufactured aircraft across the Atlantic to Britain.
- 1934 - Highland Airways commences the first regular airmail service within the United Kingdom, between Inverness and Kirkwall
