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	Yp3	1967
	Year	1968
	Ya1	1969
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	Dn2	1980s
	Dn3	1990s

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 Air Base Greenland , carrying four nuclear weapons.

March

March 27 - 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 Biafra n rebels

August 31 - the Rolls-Royce RB.211 is successfully ground-tested

September

September 11 - Air New Zealand flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith 's navigator to Sydney to commemorate 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

May

May 25 - Grumman EA-6B Prowler

June

June 30 - C-5 Galaxy

July

Nord N 500 (tethered)

September

September 8 - SEPECAT Jaguar

November

November 13 - Northrop HL-10

December

December 3 - Anahuac Tauro ''XB-TAX''

December 31 - Tupolev Tu-144

ENTERED SERVICE

February

Boeing 737 with Lufthansa