Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 22
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- 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.