Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/March in aviation/March 16
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- 2006 - The New Kitakyushu Airport opens in Japan.
- 1983 - a Boeing 767 lands at Boeing Field in Washington, after a record breaking non-stop flight from Lisbon, Portugal. The 5,499 miles (8,798 km) flown non-stop constitute a record for twin engined airliners.
- 1940 - The United Kingdom suffers its first civilian air-raid casualties of the war after a raid by KG 26 on Scapa Flow
- 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1916 - US military aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico.
