June 16, 1922
Lt. Clayton Bissell initiated night cross-country flights from Bolling Field, D.C. to Langley Field, Va. and back.
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June 16, 1936
Seversky Aircraft Company received a contract to build P-35s for the Army. It was the Army's first single-seat fighter with a closed cockpit and retractable landing gear.
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June 16, 1941
Consolidated's B-24 Liberator entered the Air Corps inventory. It flew faster and farther than the B-17. More 18,000 B-24s entered the inventory.
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June 16, 1959
The first F-105s arrived at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C.
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