Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 6
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- 2004- Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.
- 1964 - Silver City Airline announces that it has airlifted its one millionth car between England and continental Europe.
- 1927 - Canadian innovator Wallace Turnbull sells the parent of the variable-pitch propeller to Curtiss-Wright in the United States and Bristol in the United Kingdom. It will be successfully flight tested on June 29.
- 1915 - LZ 37 becomes the first Zeppelin destroyed in air-to-air combat when it is bombed by Flt Sub-Lt Reginald Warneford, RNAS.
- 1905 - Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
