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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1940:
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- 1939 in aviation
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- 1940 in aviation
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- 1941 in aviation
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- 1942 in aviation
- 1943
- 1943 in aviation
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- 19th Century
- 19° Gruppo Autonomo
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Admiral
- Adolf Hitler
- Aichi D3A
- Aichi H9A
- Aileron
- Aircraft carrier
- Aircraftman
- Albert Kesselring
- Algeria
- Alps
- Amiot 354
- Amphibious invasion
- Armor
- Artillery
- Australia
- Auxiliary ship
- Aviation
- Avro Anson
- Avro Manchester
- Axis powers
- Bardia
- Bardufoss
- Barge
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Calabria
- Battle of Taranto
- Battlecruiser
- Battles of Narvik
- Battleship
- Belgian Air Force
- Belgium
- Bell P-39 Airacobra
- Bell XFL Airabonita
- Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
- Benghazi
- Bergen
- Beriev Be-4
- Berlin
- Berliner-Joyce P-16
- Bjerkvik
- Blackburn Roc
- Blackburn Skua
- Blohm & Voss BV 222
- BOAC
- Bomb
- Bomber
- Bomber aircraft
- Bomber Command
- Bow (ship)
- Breda Ba.88 Lince
- Bremen
- Brewster F2A Buffalo
- Bristol Beaufighter
- Bristol Beaufort
- Bristol Blenheim
- Brudenell White
- Bunker
- Burma Road
- Butler, Pennsylvania
- Cagliari
- Calais
- Canberra
- Cant Z.501
- Capital ship
- Caproni Campini N.1
- Caproni-Campini N.1
- Case Yellow
- Channel Islands
- Charles de Gaulle
- Cherbourg
- Chungking
- Cologne
- Colonel
- Conscription
- Corpo Aereo Italiano
- Corsica
- Coventry
- Cruiser
- Curtiss CW-21
- Curtiss P-36 Hawk
- Czechoslovakia
- Dakar
- Denmark
- Destroyer
- Dewoitine D.520
- Dive bomber
- Dornier Do 17
- Dortmund
- Douglas DC-3
- Duisburg
- Dunkirk
- Dunkirk evacuation
- Dutch Air Force
- England
- English Channel
- Ernest Lundeen
- Estonia
- Fairey Albacore
- Fairey Barracuda
- Fairey Battle
- Fairey Fulmar
- Fairey Swordfish
- Ferry flight
- Fiat BR.20
- Fighter (aircraft)
- Fighter Command
- Finland
- Finnair
- Finnish Air Force
- Flap (aircraft)
- Fleet Air Arm
- Floatplane
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Flugzeugträger B
- Flying boat
- Flying Officer
- Fokker D.XXI
- Force H
- France
- Free French
- French Air Force
- French Indochina
- Freya radar
- General (Australia)
- Genoa
- Geoffrey Street
- George Antheil
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Gloster Gladiator
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Grumman F4F Wildcat
- Grumman Martlet
- Gulf of Finland
- Hamburg
- Handley Page Halifax
- Handley Page Hampden
- Hangar
- Hanoi
- Harstad
- Hauptmann
- Hawaiian Air Force
- Hawker Hurricane
- Hawker Typhoon
- Heinkel He 111
- Heinkel He 178
- Heinkel He.111
- Helen Richey
- Heligoland
- Henry Gullett
- Herjangsfjorden
- Hermann Göring
- Hilo, Hawaii
- Hitler
- HMS Argus (I49)
- HMS Ark Royal (91)
- HMS Eagle (1918)
- HMS Furious (47)
- HMS Glorious
- HMS Gloucester (62)
- HMS Hermes (95)
- HMS Illustrious (87)
- HMS Valentine (1917)
- HMS Warspite (03)
- HMS Wessex (D43)
- HMS Whitley (1918)
- Hörnum
- Iceland
- Ikarus Aero 2
- Ilyushin DB-3
- Ilyushin Il-2
- Inigo Campioni
- Interceptor aircraft
- Intruder (tactic)
- Italy
- James Fairbairn
- Jet aircraft
- Jorma Sarvanto
- Josef Frantisek
- Junkers Ju 288
- Junkers Ju 52
- Junkers Ju 88
- Kaleva (airplane)
- Kampfgeschwader 26
- Kawasaki Ki-48
- Kawasaki Ki-56
- Kiel
- Lava
- Lava tube
- Leros
- Lesjaskogsvatnet
- Leutnant
- Libya
- Lieutenant
- Light cruiser
- Lisbon
- List of air forces
- List of aircraft
- List of airlines
- List of airports
- List of centuries
- List of decades
- List of missiles
- List of rotorcraft
- List of years
- Lockheed Hudson
- London
- Ludwigshafen
- Luftwaffe
- Luxembourg
- Maasmechelen
- Malta
- Mannheim
- Marseilles
- Mauna Loa
- Mechelen Incident
- Mediterranean Fleet
- Merchant ship
- Merchant shipping
- Mers-el-Kébir
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Midway Atoll
- Miles M.20
- Minnesota
- Mitsubishi A6M
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero
- Mitsubishi G3M
- Mitsubishi Ki-57
- Mobilization
- Monoplane
- Motorjet
- Mönchengladbach
- Nakajima B5N
- Nakajima Ki-44
- Nakajima Ki-58
- Narvik
- Nationalist Chinese
- Naval mine
- Netherlands
- Neuss
- Neutral country
- New South Wales
- New York
- Night fighter
- No. 10 Squadron RAF
- No. 207 Squadron RAF
- No. 263 Squadron RAF
- No. 35 Squadron RAF
- No. 46 Squadron RAF
- No. 71 Squadron RAF
- No. 806 Squadron FAA
- No. 826 Squadron FAA
- North American P-64
- North Sea
- Northrop N-3PB
- Norway
- Oahu
- Oberfeldwebel
- Observation balloon
- Ocean liner
- Ofotfjord
- Operation Grab
- Operation Hurry
- Operation Rachel
- Operation Sea Lion
- Operation Smash
- Operation White
- Orkney Islands
- Ostend
- P-51 Mustang
- Pan Am
- Parachute flare
- Paratroops
- Patrol boat
- Pennsylvania
- Poland
- Polikarpov I-153
- Polikarpov I-16
- Polish 303 Squadron
- Portugal
- Quiberon Bay
- Radar
- RAF Coastal Command
- Regia Aeronautica
- Regia Marina
- Republic P-43 Lancer
- Rhodes
- River Meuse
- RMS Lancastria
- RNAS Hatston
- Rotterdam
- Rotterdam Blitz
- Royal Air Force
- Royal Navy
- Ruhr
- Ruhr Valley
- Ruokalahti
- Saaborn 17
- Sardinia
- SB2C Helldiver
- Scapa Flow
- Scheldt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Seaplane
- Searchlight
- Senegal
- Short Hill Mountain
- Sicily
- Sikorsky VS-300
- Southampton
- Soviet Air Force
- Soviet Union
- St. Malo
- Stampalia
- Stavanger
- Storage tank
- Strategic bombing
- Submarine
- Supermarine Walrus
- Sylt
- Szechuan Province
- Tachikawa Ki-54
- Tallinn
- Taranto
- Territory of Hawaii
- Thermojet
- Thunderstorm
- Timeline of aviation
- Tobruk
- Torpedo
- Torpedo bomber
- Toulon
- Trainer aircraft
- Transport (ship)
- Tripoli
- Trondheim
- Trondheimsfjord
- Tunisia
- Turbojet
- Turin
- U.S. Army Air Corps
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Army
- United States Navy
- USS Saratoga (CV-3)
- Utrecht
- Vaernes
- VF-3
- Vichy France
- Vickers Wellington
- Virginia
- Vought F4U Corsair
- Winter War
- Wolfgang Falck
- World War II
- Yakovlev Yak-1
- Years in aviation
- Yokosuka D4Y
- Åndalsnes
- Algeria
- Australia
- Bardia
- Bardufoss
- Battle of Calabria
- Battle of Taranto
- Battles of Narvik
- Belgium
- Benghazi
- Bergen
- Berlin
- Bjerkvik
- Cagliari
- Calais
- Canberra
- Corsica
- Coventry
- Czechoslovakia
- Dakar
- Denmark
- Dunkirk
- Dunkirk evacuation
- England
- English Channel
- Estonia
- Finland
- Floyd Bennett Field
- France
- Genoa
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Hamburg
- Hanoi
- Harstad
- Iceland
- Italy
- Libya
- London
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Minnesota
- Narvik
- Netherlands
- New South Wales
- New York
- Norway
- Operation Sea Lion
- Pennsylvania
- Poland
- Portugal
- RMS Lancastria
- RNAS Hatston
- Rotterdam
- Ruhr
- Sardinia
- Scapa Flow
- Senegal
- Sicily
- Southampton
- Soviet Union
- Stavanger
- Sylt
- Tallinn
- Taranto
- Tobruk
- Toulon
- Tripoli
- Trondheim
- Trondheimsfjord
- Tunisia
- Turin
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Utrecht
- Vichy France
- Virginia
- Åndalsnes
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