Deaths
- 13 January
Australian aviator Nancy Bird Walton, 93.
- 8 February
American aviator Wesley L. McDonald, 84.
- 2 June
British Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting, 81.
- 20 June
American aviator Kenneth L. Reusser, 89.
- 18 July
British World War I veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force, Henry Allingham, 113.
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