Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 23
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- 1985 - Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, explodes off the Irish coast, killing all passengers. A terrorist bomb is suspected, but never confirmed.
- 1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies when his private aerobatic biplane has an accident.
- 1952 - June 23-24 - in the most intense use of airpower of the Korean War, US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft fly 1,200 sorties against North Korean power generation facilities.
- 1931 - June 23-July 1, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly around the world in a Lockheed Vega, the Winnie Mae, covering 15,474 miles in 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes - a new record
- 1924 - Lt Russell Maughan makes the first one-day crossing of the United States, completing the flight from Long Island to San Francisco in a Curtiss PW-8 in 21 hours, 48 minutes.
- 1919 - six Zeppelins (LZ 46, LZ 79, LZ 91, LZ103, LZ 110, and LZ 111) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
- 1916 - Victor Chapman of Lafayette Escadrille becomes the first US airman to be killed in action, shot down near Verdun.
- 1905 - Wright Flyer III first flight.
