Photo probably taken at the 1953 National Air Show. During the show, Capt Russell Dobyns set a FAI altitude record and a speed record flying this helicopter.

Single-seat all-weather fighter version. Redesignated F-2D Oct 1962.

Note the Air Training Command emblem.

A52-319 at Perth after its delivery flight to its new home . Owned by Jimmy Woods, it was soon registered VH-WAD. That lasted a few weeks before its provisional CoA was cancelled and it was struck of the register. VH-WAD sat in the open at Perth Airport until 1971. In 1972 it was being shipped to a new US owner when a dispute over payment of shipping costs saw it offloaded in Melbourne. Sat rotting away in the open until 1979 when the Australian War Memorial bought it. Now restored and displayed at the AWM in Canberra. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Salvaged from a very blurry 35mm slide, this T-28 was assigned to Wright Air Development Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. To 2704th Aircraft Storage and Disposition Group, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 9Jan61. Then to North American Aviation, Columbus, OH. Converted to T-28D-5, line number 206 Assigned to 606th Air Commando Squadron, 56th Air Commando Wing, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand.

On display at the Dayton Aircraft show in September, 1953. Destroyed in a fatal forced landing at Kirtland AFB, NM Oct 9, 1962. Pilot killed.

Ex 44-76508 and KN415. Registered to William Dempster Ltd in May 1952 and sold to Dan Air in January 1954. To Air Taxi of Iran as EP-AIQ in November 1968.

Navy equivalent of C-119F. Assigned to VMR-153.

Intended competitor in the London to Christchurch air race. Ran out of fuel and crashed in a swamp in Burma (Myanmar) on October 3, 1953 while on its way to the UK. Painted red. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Scrapped in 1977. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Originally delivered to Braniff in April 1953, the aircraft crashed at Chicago (Midway) after hitting a billboard on approach 17 July 1955.

R5D-3 Skymaster of VR-24 transport squadron at Blackbushe in 1953. Later to the Spanish Air Force as T4-15.

UK-based for several years as N79854 before becoming OO-TWF, then returned to the UK as G-AOEH and still currently registered in 2013.

Manchester University Air Squadron's Chipmunk T.10 'M' takes off from Chester during a 1953 training weekend. The De Havilland factory is in the background.