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Atlantic Flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany February 2016 Issue 15 TAKE OFF! AIR15 ARB05 1930 Dornier Do X Flying Boat first Trans- Atlantic flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany - New York with both the red square and black cachets - the ARA101A Group Captain Kenneth Hubbard journey took 9 signed 1957 First Megaton Trial cover with BFPO months £200 Christmas Island CDS, he piloted the Valiant £50 a month for 4 months Bomber which dropped Britain’s first live H-Bomb on 15/05/57 during Operation Grapple £350 £70 a month for 5 months ARR31 1933 Great Western Railway Birmingham - Cardiff first flight £90 ARB55 4 Dutch ARB149 1946 BOAC London - Egypt Test Letter ‘Boesman’ No.9 with original BOAC test letter Memorandum, Balloon rare and interesting item this was flown before any flown cards each with great cachets - official first flights of the route£125 one has been signed by Nini Boesman £25 a month for 5 months and one by John Boesman £75 ARE225AS 1935 Blackpool & West Coast Air Services, Isle of Man - Liverpool first flight of the new contract, signed by the pilot Higgins £75 SGE032B Amelia Earhart signed 1929 cover with black first amphibian flight illustration and Detroit, Michigan postmark £1000 £100 a month for 10 months SGE032D Amelia Earhart signed 1929 cover with green first amphibian flight illustration and Cleveland, Ohio postmark £1200 £200 a month for 6 months Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] European Airmail ARE202 1934 Souvenir Pigeongram ARE217 1972 60th Anniversary from the London of the first plane take off from International Air Post a Royal Navy ship by Lieut CR Exhibition £25 Samson from HMS Africa, with HMS Eagle BFPS 1265 postmark, flown in last aircraft to launch from HMS Eagle £15 ARE204 1936 Imperial Airways London - France, on the first day of usage of the ‘Croydon Surrey Air Mail’ cancellation £15 1934 London - Canary Islands first ARE208 ARE221 1946 England - Dublin air mail £15 by West Coast Air Services and Aer Lingus, first flight of new airmail service) £35 ARE213 1973 European 1935 Blackpool & West Coast Airbus A300B maiden ARE224 Air Services, Liverpool - Isle of Man first flight flight £30 £10 ARE224S 1935 Blackpool & West Coast Air Services, Liverpool - Isle of Man first flight, signed by the pilot Higgins £45 ARE215 1973 Ashford ARE227 1963 Card - Malta first commemorating Charles through flight Green (famous 19th century £10 balloonist), and flown on 100th anniversary of Henry Coxwell’s first ever ballon photo flight in 1963, with great cachets £40 TEL: 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected] Have you seen our online auctions? View the latest offers at www.buckinghamcovers.com/auctions 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] ARE236 1959 Parachute ARE238 Mail, Stockton and District 1934 Airmail with a Philatelic Exhibition, with London APEX (Air green triangle parachute Post Exhibition), our mail cachet £15 choice £25 ARE246 1924 London - Paris, not flown due to cancellation of service ARE253 - sent by surface 1950 Glasgow - means instead £10 London air letter service £10 ARE254 1971 European Airbus flown from Manchester - ARE251 1936 Crilly Airways Lisbon - Toulouse London, meant to fly on the 3rd but bad £10 weather delayed until the 4th £15 ARE255 1937 The Second Annual London Stamp Exhibition, postmarked on opening day, flown to USA £30 ARE256 1970 Fund for freedom to fly model rockets - Paisley Rocketeers Society cover £15 ARE258 1973 International Airmail Exhibition, matching set of four covers with different special Manchester postmarks and on ARE259 1937 London - Belgium first flight£15 each day of the exhibition (4th- 7th) £20 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 buckingham airbus A380 covers Few Left! 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