Shanghai Daily logo Shanghai Daily 1 month ago

Mao's plane gets a look

Reporters yesterday view an IL-14 twin-engine military personnel transport that served Chairman Mao Zedong between March 1957 and September 1958. The plane is on display at the China Aviation Museum in Beijing. Full Article at Shanghai Daily

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