10 May 1948 - A North American T-6 Texan from the Royal Hellenic Air Force Shot down by ground fire over Grevena Province.
[23] The helicopter was later repaired and flown back to base [99] On February 4, 2023, at 2:39 p.m. EST an F-22 Raptor, with Pilot Frank 01, fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at a military spy balloon belonging to China that had traversed North America over the previous several days.
The balloon was brought down six nautical miles off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
[351] US officials called the craft an "intelligence gathering" balloon, while Chinese authorities claimed it was a weather research device.
[352] (This is the first confirmed time since WWII that the United States has taken down a foreign military asset over US territory[citation needed]).