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  1917 – Captain William Avery Bishop, 60 Squadron,
                                                             flying a Nieuport 17, made a single-handed attack on a
                                                             German aerodrome and shot down three enemy
                                                             aircraft. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for this
                                                             action.
                                                           June 3
         Canadian Aviation Facts for June                  1941 – RCAF 405 Squadron Wellington bombers made

        June 1                                               the first raid on Germany.
          1960 – Trans-Canada Air Lines begins          June 4
            transatlantic services, flying between         1919 – The British offer Canada Imperial a Gift of 100
            Montreal and London                              aircraft with support equipment.

          1953 – No. 423 Squadron was reformed at         1784 – First untethered balloon flight by a woman.
            St. Hubert, Quebec and equipped with Avro        Madamne Elizabeth Thible, a French opera singer, in
            Canada CF-100 fighters.                          order to entertain Gustav III of Sweden in Lyon.

          1948 – First flight of Cessna 170.  The       June 5
            Cessna 170 is a general aviation aircraft      1950 – RCAF Colours were presented to the Force by
            produced by the Cessna Aircraft Company          the Governor-General, Field Marshal Earl Alexander of
            between 1948 and 1956.  Over 5,000 were          Tunis, at Ottawa, Ontario.
            built, and over 2,000 are still accounted for
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            today.  The Cessna 170 landing gear is a
            taildragger configuration. It was replaced     1964 – The historic aircraft collections of the Canadian
                                                             War Museum, National Aviation Museum, and the Royal
            by the Cessna 172 which became the most
                                                             Canadian Air Force were displayed together for the first
            popular light plane in history.
                                                             time at the Rockcliffe RCAF Station.  The three
          1944 – North West Air Command was                 collections together were designated the National
            formed at Edmonton under the command             Aeronautical Collection.
            of A/V/M T. A. Lawrence.
                                                           1944 - Thirty-seven RCAF bomber, fighter and coastal
          1943 – In response to the Nazi dictatorship,      squadrons took part in operations for the invasion of
            the RCAF Second Tactical Air Force (2nd T.       Normandy. The Allied invasion of France is spearheaded
            A. F.) was formed.                               by paratrooper drops and assault glider landings. The

          1927 – Western Canada Airways                     Luftwaffe offers almost no resistance to the invasion.
            inaugurated weekly air service from            1927 – Canadian innovator Wallace Turnbull sells the
            Winnipeg to Long Lake, Manitoba via Lac du       parent of the variable-pitch propeller to Curtiss-Wright
            Bonnet.                                          in the United States and Bristol in the United Kingdom.

        June 2                                               It will be successfully flight tested on June 29.
          1983 – Air Canada Flight 797, a McDonnell-    June 7
            Douglas DC-9, catches fire during flight over     2009 – A Strait Air Britten-Norman Islander crashes on
            Kentucky; 23 of 46 passengers die from           approach to Port Hope Simpson Airport, Canada, killing
            smoke inhalation even after the crew             the pilot. The aircraft is destroyed.
            successfully lands the aircraft in Cincinnati,
                                                           1944 – Nos. 401, 411 and 412 (Fighter) Squadrons of No.
            Ohio.
                                                             126 (RCAF) Wing destroyed 12 enemy aircraft and
          1936 – First flight of the LACAB GR.8             probably destroyed or damaged five more over the

          1923 – First flight of the Boeing Model 15        Normandy beaches.




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