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A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...

Timeline of Events

1939

6.1.1939

Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane

1942

6.23.1942

World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

1959

2.20.1959

The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

1965

4.4.1965

The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.

1971

6.6.1971

A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.

1973

2.21.1973

Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.