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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968:
Events
January
- January 21 - a US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashes in the sea near Thule AFB Greenland, carrying four nuclear weapons.
March
- March 28 - Yuri Gagarin is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
May
- May 5 - a Grumman Gulfstream II becomes the first executive jet to cross the Atlantic
August
- August 13 - Swedish Count Gustav von Rosen defies Nigerian air defences to fly in supplies to the Biafran rebels
- August 31 - the Rolls-Royce RB.211 is successfully ground-tested
September
- September 11 - Air New Zeland flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's navigator to Sydney to commemmorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
- September 30 - the first Boeing 747 is rolled out
December
- December 24 - Apollo 8 orbits the moon carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.
First flights
June
September
November
- November 13 - Northrop HL-10
December
Entered service
February
- Boeing 737 with Lufthansa
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