JUNE03

1932 - 1st flight of The RWD-6, Polish Two-seater sport and touring strutted high-wing monoplane of a mixed construction, designed specially for the purpose of competing in the international tourist aircraft contest Challenges.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWD-6

1936 - Death of Godwin Brumowski, most successful fighter ace of the Austro-Hungarian Air Force during WWI, while instructing a student at Schipol Airfield, in Holland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin_Brumowski - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/austrhun/brumowski.php

1936 - Death of Walther Wever, pre-WWII Luftwaffe Commander. His Heinkel He 70 Blitz that he was flying had not been properly examined during preflight checks, and the aileron gust locks were not removed. The aircraft was airborne when the wing dipped, and the Heinkel stalled and went into a horizontal cartwheel (apparently akin to a ground loop, but at low altitude instead). It crashed and exploded in flames

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Wever_(General)

1937 – Spanish Nationalist commander General Emilio Mola dies when his plane crashes on the hill of Alcocero de Mola, near Burgos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Mola#Death

1937 - Ira Clarence Eaker takes off for the 1st blind (instruments only) transcontinental flight from New York to Los Angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_C._Eaker#Air_Service_and_Air_Corps_career

1940 - The Cuban Academia Nacional de Aviación Civil y Reserva Aérea (ANACRA) is created.

http://www.cubaaereo.com/pilot.asp?pg=history

1941 - RCAF 405 Squadron Wellington bombers made the 1st raid on Germany.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801120/On-this-day-in-Canadian-Aviation-History-June

1942 – In an effort to decoy U.S. forces away from planned Japanese landings on Midway Atoll and to cover planned Japanese landings on Attu and Kiska, aircraft from the carriers Junyo and Ryujo strike Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. Although only 12 planes, all from Ryujo, manage to reach Dutch Harbor, they inflict considerable damage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dutch_Harbor

1942 - Operation Style : 32 Spitfires Mk VcT are flown off HMS Eagle bound for Malta. 28 of them arrived safely, with the other 4 being shot down en route.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Style#June_1942_.E2.80.93_Operation_Style

1942 - 1st attack on a surfaced submarine at night using a Leigh Light (powerful 22 million candela carbon arc searchlight of 24 inches (610 mm) diameter) is carried out by a Vickers Wellington of No.172 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, flown by Squadron Leader J.H. Greswell. The target is the Italian Navy Marconi Class submarine Luigi Torelli. Believing the aircraft to be friendly. The Wellington drops four Mk8 depth charges, damaging the submarine.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1942.aspx

1944 - F/L RE McBride and crew in a Consolidated Canso of No. 162 Squadron sank the German submarine U-477 north of the Shetland Isles.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801120/On-this-day-in-Canadian-Aviation-History-June

1946 - Henry A. Johnson sets a Speed record over a closed circuit of 1 000 km without payload at 463 mph (745.08 km/h) with a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet

http://www.fai.org/records

1949 – The sole Sukhoi Su-15 (Aircraft P), Soviet twin-engined jet all-weather interceptor prototype, develops severe vibration during 39th test flight, breaks up in mid-air forcing pilot S. N. Anokhin to eject. Project is abandoned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-15_(1949)

1949 - 1st flight of The Lockheed XF-90, American long-range penetration jet fighter and bomber escort prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XF-90

1950 - 1st flight of the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak (Prototype designed YF-96A), American-built swept-wing turbojet fighter-bomber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-84F_Thunderstreak

1953 - 1st flight of The Saab 29 Model S29C reconnaissance version of the popularly called Flygande tunnan ("The Flying Barrel") Swedish fighter.

http://www.aviastar.org/gallery/tunnan.html

1954 - A Sabena Douglas C-47A-1-DK is attacked by Yugoslavian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s near Maribor (Slovenia). The crew carried out a forced landing at Thalerhof, Austria where it ran off the runway into rough ground, killing one over 4.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19540603-0

1962 - Air France Flight 007, a 707-300, crashed while attempting to takeoff from Paris's Orly Airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_007

1962 - 1st flight of the Scintex ML 250 'Rubis', French 4 seat civil utility aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintex_Rubis - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9905

1963 - A Northwest Orient Airlines DC-7C on Military Air Transport Service from Tacoma, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska, crashed into the Pacific near Annette Island, Alaska, with the loss of all 101 people aboard. The cause of the crash remains unknown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-7#Accidents_and_incidents

1964 - Jacqueline Cochran sets a jet speed record over a closed circuit of 500 km without payloadwith with a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter at 1,135 mph (1 814.37 km/h) over a 500-kilometer course at Edwards AFB, California

http://www.fai.org/records

1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the 1st multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the 1st American spacewalk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Higgins_White

1965 - Death of Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Norwegian aviation pioneer, polar explorer and businessman. Among his achievements, he is generally regarded as the founder of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Riiser-Larsen

1966 - A Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C entered a deep stall from which the crew were unable to recover. The aircraft crashed at Felthorpe, Norfolk killing all four crew. This was the 1st loss of a Trident aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Felthorpe_Trident_crash

1966 - Launch of Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A), NASA manned spaceflight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_9A - http://www.astronautix.com/thisday/june03.htm

1967 - Air Ferry Ltd Douglas C-54A Skymaster operating a non-scheduled passenger flight from Manston to Perpignan in France struck the Canigou mountain at 4,000 feet while in the descent, killing all 88 occupants (five crew and 83 passengers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Ferry_Limited#Accidents_and_incidents - http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19670603-1

1969 - 1st flight of An airworthy Vickers Vimy replica (British WWI heavy bomber aircraft) built by the Vintage Aircraft Flying Association at Brooklands

http://rafmuseum-1.titaninternet.co.uk/london/collections/aircraft/vickers-vimy.cfm

1973 - 1st crash of a supersonic transport aircraft occurs as a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up during a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, killing soviet test pilot Vladimir Nikolayevich Benderov.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_crash - http://www.astronautix.com/astros/benderov.htm

1974 - 1st flight of The Berger BX-110, prototype light helicopter built in Switzerland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger_BX-110

1974 - Death of George Buchanan Foster, Canadian WWI flying ace and member of the Legislative Council of Quebec.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_Foster - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/foster1.php

1975 - 1st flight of The Mitsubishi F-1, Japan's 1st post-WWII domestically developed jet fighter, and 1st fighter to enter production in Japan since the end of WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_F-1

1977 - Death of Aleksandr Ivanovich Lysenko, Soviet test pilot, in the crash of his Mig-23.

http://www.astronautix.com/astros/lysenko.htm

1979 - 1st flight of The PZL Kania (Kitty Hawk), Polish small, lightly armored transport helicopter (follow-up to the Mil Mi-2 helicopter)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_Kania

1980 - Soyuz 35, Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station returns on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_35

2003 - Final round trip from New york for Air France's Concorde bringing back airline staff and long-time employees in the airline's Concorde operations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

2006 - Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force KJ-200 crashed in Guangde County in the Anhui province in the People's Republic of China. All 40 people on board were killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_PLA_Air_Force_KJ-200_Accident

2007 - Paramount Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Lungi International Airport in Sierra Leone, killing all 22 over 23.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Paramount_Airlines_Mil_Mi-8_crash

2011 – An American unmanned aerial vehicle strike in South Waziristan, Pakistan, killing Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al-Qaeda member and leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri#Death

2012 - Dana Air flight 992 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashes into a building on approach at Lagos, Nigeria after hitting an electric line, killing all on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Air_Flight_992