Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 2
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- 1983 - An Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 jet burned shortly after making an emergency landing at Cincinnati Airport, killing 23 of the 46 people on board.
- 1957 - Cpt Joseph Kittinger sets a new balloon altitude record of 96,000 ft (29,261 m)
- 1954 - Yugoslavian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, which lands in Austria
- 1912 - The Lewis machine gun is first tested in an aircraft by the US Army. The results are extremely encouraging, and this weapon would go on to become the standard armament of many fighter aircraft during World War I.
- 1910 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel
