Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 18
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- 1971 - Southwest Airlines founded
- 1965 - the first B-52 Stratofortress missions are flown against North Vietnam
- 1953 - a USAF C-124 Globemaster II 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.
- 1937 - June 18-20, Valery Chkalov, G.F.Baidukov, A.V.Belyakov flew from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, USA via the North Pole
- 1916 - the first German ace Max Immelmann is shot down and killed by a FE.2b from No. 25 Squadron RFC -- a symbolic end of the "Fokker Scourge". He had scored 15 kills.
