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August 10, 2012
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US Airways Files For Bankruptcy: August 10 in Aviation History

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A US Airways Airbus A319 at LaGuardia Airport
A US Airways Airbus A319 at LaGuardia Airport. (Photo by Ryan Spellman)
2010: US Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is killed when the de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbo Otter he’s aboard crashes in Alaska.

2007: Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, former Tuskegee Airman during World War II, dies in Tampa, Fla.

2002: US Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1990: The Magellan spacecraft reaches the orbit of Venus.

1947: A Douglas Skystreak hits 640 mph, setting a new world airspeed record.

1947: British European Airways launches the world’s first cargo-only airline service.

1868: Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Graf Zeppelin for many of its record-setting flights, is born in Flensburg, Germany.