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June 1

  • 1948 - BEA commences the first helicopter airmail service in the UK
  • 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.

June 2

June 4

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.

  • 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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June 10

  • 1940 - Italy declares war on Britain and its allies and begins an aerial assault on Malta.

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June 12

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.

June 13

  • 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.

June 14

  • 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.

June 15

  • 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.

June 16

June 17

  • 1916 - the first French ace, Jean Navarre, is shot down and wounded, ending his combat career with 12 confirmed kills.

June 18

  • 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.

June 19

  • 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.

June 20

  • 1972 - Airline pilots hold a world-wide strike, calling for tighter security

June 21

June 22

1984 - London: Richard Branson's airline, Virgin Atlantic, begins services to North America, using Boeing 747s.

  • 1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). 1,200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed on the first day alone.

June 23

  • 1916 - Victor Chapman of Lafayette Escadrille becomes the first US airman to be killed in action, shot down near Verdun.

June 24

June 26

June 27

  • 1912 - Following successes using aircraft against the Turks in North Africa, Italy forms a specialised Air Battalion (Battagliore Aviatori).

June 28

June 29

June 30

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  • 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