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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1952:
Contents
Events
January
February
- February 10 - Maj George A. Davis Jr is awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, after attacking a group of 12 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s that were about to bounce other US aircraft. He shot down two before being shot down himself.
May
- May 1 - the IATA agrees on new "tourist class" fares, which are adopted by Pan Am on its NewYork-London "Rainbow service"
- May 2 - BOAC introduces the de Havilland DH.108 Comet on its London-Johannesburg route, the first regular service flown by a jet airliner. G-AYLP makes the first flight.
- May 12 - Sqn Ldr P. G. Fisher makes the first non-stop, unrefuelled flight from England to Australia in an English Electric Canberra bomber in a record 23 hours 5 minutes.
- May 29 - aerial refueling is used on a combat mission for the first time, with twelve F-84 Thunderjets of the 159th Fighter Bomber Squadron being refueled by a KB-29 Superfortress on their way to Sariwon
June
- June 16-17 - Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a Swedish Air Force C-47 Dakota on an intelligence gathering mission over the Baltic Sea, and the PBY Catalina that is sent to search for survivors.
- June 23-24 - in the most intense use of airpower of the Korean War, US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft fly 1,200 sorties against North Korean power generation facilities.
July
- July 1 - the Portuguese Air Force is formed by the amalgamation of the nation's various previous air arms.
- July 8 - New York Airways begins inter-airport helicopter services to link Idlewild, La Guardia, and Newark airports.
- July 15-31 - a pair of USAF H-19 Chickasaws make the first transatlantic crossing by helicopter
- July 29 - a USAF RB-45 Tornado makes the first non-stop crossing of the Pacific by jet
August
- August 9 - Lt Peter Carmichael of No. 802 Squadron FAA aboard HMS Ocean claims the Fleet Air Arm's first MiG-15 kill, from a Hawker Sea Fury.
- August 28 - a F6F Hellcat is loaded with explosives and flown as a remote-controlled drone against a railway bridge at Hungnam
September
- September 6 - the de Havilland Sea Vixen prototype disintegrates at the Farnborough Air Show, killing 28 spectators as well as its pilot
October
- October 26 - a BOAC Comet is badly damaged in an accident during take-off from Rome
December
- December 20 - USAF C-124 Globemaster crashed on take-off from Larsen AFB in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 86 servicemen en route home from the Korean War. At the time, this was the worst aviation accident in history.
First flights
January April June July August- August 6 - Boulton Paul P.120
- August 16 - Bristol Britannia
- August 22 - Saunders-Roe Princess
- August 30 - Avro Vulcan
- September 10 - BOMARC surface-to-air missile
- September 20 - Douglas X-3 Stiletto
- September 28 - Dassault Mystère IV
- September 30 - GAM-63 Rascal surface-to-air missile
Entered service
January- January 22 - de Havilland DH.108 Comet with BOAC
- March 13 - Airspeed Ambassador with BEA
- de Havilland Venom with the RAF
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