Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 16
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- 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 - 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.
