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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1952:

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January

• January 5 - Pan Am commences trans-atlantic freight services.

February

• February 10February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 324 days remaining, 325 in leap years. Events 1258 Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens. 1635 The Academie francaise in Paris is expanded - Maj George A. Davis Jr is awarded the Medal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States of America. It is awarded "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty. Three different medals currently exist, one each for th posthumously, after attacking a group of 12 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 ( NATO reporting name "Fagot") was a jet fighter developed for the USSR. History Design began under the bureau designation I-310 which first flew in 1947. Previous Soviet efforts like the MiG-9 had been hampered by the poor quas that were about to bounce other US aircraft. He shot down two before being shot down himself.

May

• May 1May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). There are 244 days remaining. Events 305 Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. 1328 Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-North - the IATA agrees on new "tourist class" fares, which are adopted by Pan Am on its NewYork- LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri "Rainbow service"
• May 2May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). There are 243 days remaining. Events 1194 King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1335 Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinth - 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 Royal 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 Portugese 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

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