This Day in Aviation History
August 15th, 1935
First flight of the Seversky P-35.

The Seversky P-35 was a fighter aircraft built in the United States by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in U.S. Army Air Corps to feature all-metal construction, retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit….

Source:
Wikipedia, Seversky P-35: http://gstv.us/1hDjMOT

YouTube, Late 1930s Restored Seversky AT-12 (Two-seat Version of the P-35 Fighter) – HISTORIC ! http://gstv.us/1hDjNCp

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