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Years:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

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

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January 5 - Pan Am commences trans-atlantic freight services.
January 22 - The de Havilland Comet 1 became the first turbojet-powered civil airliner to be awarded a certificate of airworthiness.

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 1 - the IATA agrees on new "Tourist Class" fares, which are first offered by Pan American on its "Rainbow service" between New York City and London
May 2 - BOAC introduces the de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 on its London--Johannesburg route, the first regular service flown by a jet airliner. G-ALYP makes the first flight.
May 12 - Sqn Ldr P. G. Fisher makes the first non-stop, un-refuelled 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 back from an attack on Sariwon

June 13-16 - 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 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 Sikorsky H-19s 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 9 - Lt Peter Carmichael of No. 802 Squadron FAA aboard HMS Ocean claims the Fleet Air Arm's first MiG-15 kill, from a piston-engined 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 6 - the de Havilland DH.110 prototype, WG236, disintegrates at the Farnborough Airshow, killing 28 spectators as well as its pilot

October 26 - a BOAC Comet is badly damaged in an accident during take-off from Rome-Ciampino airport

December 20 - A USAF C-124 Globemaster II, 50-100, c/n 43238, crashed on take-off from Larson AFB in Moses Lake, WA, USA, killing 87 servicemen, the highest confirmed death toll of any accident in aviation history at that time.