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- 2004- America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.
- 1983 - Singapore Airlines announces it has bought six Boeing 747s and four Boeing 757s, making it the first Asian airline to buy the 757.
- 1964 - the Kenyan Air Force is established
- 1961 - United Air Lines absorbs Capital Airlines to become the largest airline in the West, with a fleet of 267 aircraft.
- 1960 - Trans-Canadian Air Lines begins transatlantic services, flying between Montreal and London
- 1956 - Eastern Airlines buys National Airlines.
- 1951 - BEA commences helicopter services between London and Birmingham
- 1950 - BEA commences the first regular passenger service to be flown by helicopter, between Liverpool and Cardiff.
- 1919 - A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.
- 1912 - The first aeroplane flight in Norway is made by Lt Hans Dons in a Etrich Taube.
- 1983 - An Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 jet burned shortly after making an emergency landing at Cincinnati Airport, killing 23 of the 46 people on board.
- 1973 - The first production Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner broke-up during a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, killing 14.
- 1957 - Cpt Joseph Kittinger sets a new balloon altitude record of 96,000 ft (29,261 m)
- 1954 - Yugoslavian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, which lands in Austria
- 1912 - The Lewis machine gun is first tested in an aircraft by the US Army. The results are extremely encouraging, and this weapon would go on to become the standard armament of many fighter aircraft during World War I.
- 1910 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel
- 1959 - Max Conrad flies a Piper Comanche from Casablanca to New York, setting a new lightplane distance record of 7,683 miles (12,365 km).
- 1940 - BOAC commences a twice-weekly service between England and Portugal, scheduled to connect with Pan Am flights from Lisbon to New York.
- 1934 - the US Navy commissions its first purpose-built aircraft carrier, USS Ranger.
- 1930 - Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 ft) in a F3W Apache
- 1920 - the US Army Reorganization Act is passed, dashing hopes for an independent air arm like Britain's Royal Air Force.
June 5 1967 - Boeing delivers its 1,000th jet airliner, a Boeing 707-120B for American Airlines
1967 - June 5-10 - the Six Day War is fought between Israel and her Arab neighbours. In a pre-emptive strike, the Israeli Air Force destroys half of the Egyptian Air Force on the first night. By the end of the six days, 452 Arab aircraft had been destroyed for a loss of 46 Israeli aircraft.
- 1944 - June 5-6 - "D-Day" - the Allied invasion of France is spearheaded by paratrooper drops and assault glider landings.
- 1927 - the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("Society for spaceship travel") is formed in Germany.
- 1783 unmanned flight of the Montgolfier brothers hot-air-balloon (Montgolfière) in Vivarais, France. The Montgolfiers demonstrate a hot air balloon in public, at Annonay.
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- 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel using pedal power.
- 1944, England suffers first V1 flying bomb attacks.
- 1928 - Emilio Carranza crashes in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey while returning from New York City to Mexico City on a historic goodwill flight.
- 1919 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).
1897, Friedrich Hermann Wölfert and his mechanic are killed in an accident when their airship powered by petrol caught fire at a demonstration at the Tempelhof field.
- 1980 - the last produced Concorde (number 16) is delivered to British Airways.
- 1921 - the US Army and Navy begin trials in Chesapeake Bay to test the effectiveness of aircraft in attacking ships. The captured German destroyer G-102, light cruiser Frankfurt and battleship Ostfriesland will all be successfully sunk by aerial bombing.
- 1917 - 14 Gotha bombers make the most destructive air-raid on London of the First World War. Attacking in daylight, 162 people are killed and 432 wounded.
- 1982 - Argentinan forces surrender to English forces on the Falkland Islands. During their war, the English had destroyed 109 Argentinian planes, compared to only 10 lost by the British.
- 1944 - June 14-15 (overnight), flying a Mosquito of 605 Sqn, Flt Lt J G Musgrave became first pilot to shoot down a V1 flying bomb.
- 1923 - New Zealand forms its first military aviation services, fore-runners of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- 1919 - Cpt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten Brown set out on the first successful non-stop Atlantic crossing, flying a Vickers Vimy from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours. They win £10,000 from the Daily Mail and are both knighted.
- 1985 - Amal guerrilla gunmen hijack a TWA Boeing 727 en route from Rome to Athens. The plane, which includes some Jewish passengers, is then re-routed and taken to Algiers, Beirut, and Algiers again before setting in Beirut. The 39 passengers and crew are freed on July 1 after Israel agrees to free 700 Shiite prisoners.
- 1927 - US businessman Van Lear Black charters a KLM Fokker F.VIIa for a flight from the Netherlands to Batavia, the first international charter flight.
- 1785, Pilâtre de Rozier and Jules Romain become the first known aeronautical fatalities when their balloon crashes during an attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1984 - Frontier Airlines pilot Emily Warner and co-pilot Barbara Cook make history by directing the first all-female commercial airline crew, on a flight from Denver to Lexington, Kentucky.
- 1959 - a US Navy P4M Mercator is attacked by North Korean Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s off the North Korean coast. The Mercator's crew returned the aircraft safely to Japan.
- [[1952 in aviation|1952 - June 16-17 - Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a Royal Swedish Air Force C-47 Dakota on an intelligence gathering mission over the Baltic Sea, and the PBY Catalina that is sent to search for survivors.
- 1939 - Air France commences hourly flights from Paris to London
- 1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates a primitive helicopter to the US Navy.
- 1991 - Alaska Airlines commences services to the Soviet Union
- 1965 - US Navy fighters from VF-21 shoot down two North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s
- 1947 - Pan Am begins a New York to San Francisco service flying west-to-east around almost the entire globe.
- 1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1916 - the first French ace, Jean Navarre, is shot down and wounded, ending his combat career with 12 confirmed kills.
- 1971 - Southwest Airlines founded
- 1965 - the first B-52 Stratofortress missions are flown against North Vietnam
- 1953 - a USAF C-124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo, killing 129 people in the worst air crash to date. It is the first crash in which over 100 people were killed.
- 1937 - June 18-20, Valery Chkalov, G.F.Baidukov, A.V.Belyakov flew from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, USA via the North Pole
- 1916 - the first German ace Max Immelmann is shot down and killed by a FE.2b from No. 25 Squadron RFC -- a symbolic end of the "Fokker Scourge". He had scored 15 kills.
- 1947 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-powered aircraft during World War II).
- 1918 - Italy's highest-scoring ace, Maggiore Francesco Baracca is killed by Austrian ground fire. He had claimed 34 victories.
- 1912 - The RFC's Central Flying School opened at Upavon, Wiltshire.
- 2004 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1972 - Airline pilots hold a world-wide strike, calling for tighter security
- 1966 - Sheila Scott completes a solo round-the-world flight
- 1956 - the US Navy commissions its first helicopter carrier, USS Thetis Bay
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
- 1987 - Air France pilot Partick Fourticq and friend Henri Pescarolo once again walk into the record books, completing an around the world flight aboard a Lockheed 18, in 88 hours and 19 minutes.
- 1972 - Jean Boulet pilots a Aérospatiale Lama to a new record altitude for helicopters, 12,441 m (40,820 ft)
- 1961 - June 21-22 - a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan makes the first non-stop flight from England to Australia
- 1954 - three USAF B-47 Stratojets cross the Pacific Ocean in under 15 hours
- 1990 - Bombardier purchases Learjet for $US 75 million
1984 - London: Richard Branson's airline, Virgin Atlantic, begins services to North America, using Boeing 747s.
- 1975 - Svetlana Savitskaya sets a new women's airspeed record of 2,683 km/h (1,667 mph) in the Mikoyan Ye-133, a modified MiG-25PU two-seat trainer
- 1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). 1,200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed on the first day alone.
- 1985 - an Air India Boeing 747 explodes off the Irish coast, killing all passengers. A terrorist bomb is suspected, but never confirmed.
- 1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies when his private aerobatic biplane has an accident.
- 1952 - June 23-24 - in the most intense use of airpower of the Korean War, US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft fly 1,200 sorties against North Korean power generation facilities.
- 1931 - June 23-July 1, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly around the world in a Lockheed Vega, the Winnie Mae, covering 15,474 miles in 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes - a new record
- 1924 - Lt Russell Maughan makes the first one-day crossing of the United States, completing the flight from Long Island to San Francisco in a Curtiss PW-8 in 21 hours, 48 minutes.
- 1919 - six Zeppelins (LZ 46, LZ 79, LZ 91, LZ103, LZ 110, and LZ 111) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
- 1916 - Victor Chapman of Lafayette Escadrille becomes the first US airman to be killed in action, shot down near Verdun.
- 1905 - Wright Flyer III first flight.
- 1944 - June 24-25 - the Luftwaffe makes its first operational use of "Mistel" composite aircraft, against Allied shipping in Seine Bay.
- 1943 - the RAF uses chaff, codenamed "Window", for the first time to foil German radar during the Operation Gomorrah raids on Hamburg.
- 1918 - the RAF deploys its new 1,650 lb (748 kg) bomb for the first time. One is dropped on Middelkerke, Belgium by a Handley Page O/400 of No. 216 Squadron RAF.
- 1988 - An Air France Airbus A320 on a demonstration flight at an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim crashes and kills four people, including the pilot and co-pilot.
- 1948 - the Berlin Airlift begins, with USAF, Royal Air Force, and British civil transport aircraft carrying supplies into West Berlin
- 1979 - Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagles shoot down four Syrian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s
- 1950 - A USAF F-82 Twin Mustang shoots down a North Korean Air Force Yak-9, the first air-to-air kill of the Korean War.
- 1950 - USAF B-29 Superfortresses of the 19th Bombardment Group attack Seoul railway station and the bridge over the Han River in the first strategic bombing mission of the war.
- 1912 - Following successes using aircraft against the Turks in North Africa, Italy forms a specialised Air Battalion (Battagliore Aviatori).
- 1955 - Jean Moire lands a Bell 47 helicopter on top of Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 4,807 m (15,772 ft)
- 1950 - USAF B-26 Invaders fly the first strike mission into North Korea.
- 1948 - Sdn Ldr Basil Arkel sets a new helicopter speed record of 124 mph (200 km/h) in a Fairey Gyrodyne.
- 1939 - Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force is formed.
- 1927 - June 28-29 - a US Army Fokker C-2 makes the first non-stop flight from the continental US to Hawaii.
- 1908 - Jacob Ellehammer makes the first piloted, powered aeroplane flight in Germany.
- 1966 - The U.S. Air Force bombs Hanoi for the first time
- 1934 - June 29-30 - Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz brothers, amateur pilots, flew across the Atlantic
- 1932 - a F9C Sparrowhawk parasite fighter hooks onto the USS Akron for the first time.
- 1927 - June 29 - July 1 - Richard Evelyn Byrd with crew flies Fokker F.VIIa/3m "America" from New York City to France.
- 1977 - US president Jimmy Carter cancels the B-1 Lancer program
- 1953 - A SNCASO S.O. 4000 (prototype of the Sud Vautour fighter-bomber) becomes the first European aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in a shallow dive.
- 1950 - P-51 Mustangs of No. 77 Squadron RAAF are sent to Korea as part of Australia's contribution to the war.
- 1926 - Alan Cobham sets out on a round trip from England to Australia in a de Havilland DH.50. He will arrive back in London on October 1 and receive a knighthood for his accomplishment.
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- European Helicopter Industries is formed.
- 1938 - A prototype Heinkel He 118 makes the first airborne tests of a turbojet engine
- 1921 - Boeing wins a $1,448,000 contract to build 200 Thomas-Morse MB-3 fighters for the US Army, allowing the company to abandon furniture-making.
- 1912 - Sopwith Aviation Company founded
- 1904 - The British Army tests Samuel Cody's person-carrying kites at Aldershot.
- 1896, Octave Chanute organises a flyer camp at Lake Michigan. Tested was a Lilienthal-glider (reconstruction) and a biplane built by Chanute, which was the basis for the further development of flight technique
