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March 19, 1941: The 99th Pursuit Squadron (later the 99th Fighter Squadron) also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-Black unit of the U.S. Army Air Corp, is activated. It was also the first all-Black flying squadron to deploy overseas (to North Africa in April 1943, and later to Sicily and other parts of Italy. The squadron was initially equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter-bomber aircraft.
March 19, 1989: The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft makes its first flight.
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March 22, 1948: Just over a year since being injured when the prototype P-80A was cut in half by a disintegrating turbojet engine, Lockheed test pilot Anthony W. “Tony” LeVier made the first flight of the prototype TP-80C-1-LO, a two-seat jet trainer. The airplane was redesignated TF-80C Shooting Star on June 11, 1948, and to T-33A, May 5, 1949.
March 23, 1948: The Douglas F3D Skyknight, with Douglas test pilot Russell Thaw in the cockpit, made its first flight. The Skyknight was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company in El Segundo, Calif. The aircraft had been trucked to Muroc Army Air Field from El Segundo for the flight test program
March 25, 1955: The prototype XF8U-1 Crusader, with Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation experimental test pilot John William Konrad at the controls, made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The new fighter had been transported from the factory at Dallas, Texas, aboard a Douglas C-124C Globemaster II, on March 3, 1955. It was reassembled and all systems were checked. Taxi tests began on March 14. During the first flight, the Crusader went supersonic in level flight.
March 25, 2009: A U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 10 Raptor, 91-4008, Raptor 07, of the 411th Flight Test Squadron, 412th Test Wing, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., crashed during a weapons integration flight test mission. The single-seater went down about 10 a.m. for unknown reasons, the officials said. Killed in the crash was David Cooley, 49, a 21-year Air Force veteran who joined Lockheed Martin, the plane’s principal contractor, in 2003. Cooley, of Palmdale, Calif., was pronounced dead at Victor Valley Community Hospital in Victorville, Calif. An Air Force investigation found that the accident occurred after the pilot lost consciousness in a high-gravity maneuver.
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