'New air service China to Burma. First plane has landed in Rangoon.' The registration is slightly speculative but 652 was one of only a handful of CAAC Il-14Ms, and was already in service in 1956. Date of the inaugural flight to Rangoon given as 11 April by MIT researcher Koon-Ho Joseph Tam; the photo source says 23 April. The characters that prefix the reg say CAAC. 652 is preserved in the Shanghai aviation museum. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

All-weather fighter weather in Florida. Photo by: Joe Scherschell / Life

Until 1957 Tyndall AFB was home to the 3625th Combat Crew Training Wing which trained interceptor pilots. The aircraft wears an Air Training Command badge with the base name. Photo by: Joe Scherschell / Life

This was the prototype Firefly conversion to U.9 drone standard. First flew at Ringway on 6 April 1956. To 728B Squadron at Hal Far, Malta. Shot down 25 May 1960.