JUNE 2018 ISSUE 3 CSM03 COVERS

BCON001 Final flight 23/10/03 London - New York flown cover with cachet & Heathrow special postmark...... £60 BCON001S Signed Capt. Adrian Thompson.....£85

BCON002S Signed Mike Bannister...... £85 BCON002 Final flight return 24/10/03 New York - London flown cover with cachet & Heathrow special postmark.. £60 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected]

BCON003S6 Signed Mike Bannister, Paul Douglas & Les Brodie...... £150 BCON003 ‘Coming Home’ final flight to Filton 26/11/03 flown cover with cachet & Filton special postmark..£60 BCON003S1 Signed Mike Bannister...... £90 BCON003S2 Signed John Cochrane...... £100 BCON003S3 Signed Les Brodie...... £100 BCON003S4 Signed Mike Bannister & Les Brodie...... £125

BCON004CS Tribute flight to Manchester 22/10/03 signed Warren Hazelby...... £100 BCON004AS Tribute Flight to Birmingham 20/10/03. Many of these covers were lost during the flight, which makes this the scarcest tribute flight cover. Signed Les Brodie...... £75 BCON004B Tribute flight to Belfast 21/10/03...... £65 BCON004BS Signed Mike Bannister...... £85 BCON004D Tribute flight to Cardiff 23/10/03...... £60 BCON004DS Signed Les Brodie...... £100 BCON004E Tribute flight to Edinburgh 24/10/03...... £60 BCON004ES Signed Les Brodie...... £100 BCON004F Tribute flight Heathrow - Washington 14/10/03.£85 BCON003IMS Isle of Man stamps, signed Mike Bannister, Paul Douglas & Les Brodie...... £125 BCON004FS Signed Paul Douglas...... £100 BCON003IOM Isle of Man stamps, flown & triple pmk.£75 BCON004G Tribute VIP flight 24/10/03 signed Paul Douglas.£75

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] BCON005 30th Ann. 1st Flight to Bahrain. With stamps & label from our exclusive Concorde sheet & full set 1969 Concorde stamps. Superb Wootton illustration...... £30 BCON005S Signed John Cochrane...... £90 BCON005S2 Signed Tony Benn...... £50 BCON005B RARE Union Jack single band FDC only 150 exist...... £125

BCON006 30th Ann. of her 1st Washington passenger flight. Postmarked in London & Washington, with stamp & BCON007S2 Signed Tim Orchard & Peter Duffey label. Flown to Washington on the day...... £35 ONLY 1 LEFT...... £30 BCON006S Signed Paul Douglas...... £45 BCON007 30th Ann. of Concorde’s 1st flight to New York.£25 BCON007S Signed Les Scott...... £30 BCON006S2 Signed Paul Douglas & Tony Benn...... £55 BCON006S3 Signed Raymond Baxter...... £50 BCON006S5 Signed Gilbert Defer...... £65 BCON006S6 Signed Peter Baker...... £35 BCON006A With running pictorial postmark...... £30 BCON006B Heathrow CDS postmark...... £25

BCON008S6 Signed David Edmondson, Andrew Baillie & Adrian Thompson...... £40 BCON008 30th Ann. 1st flight to Singapore...... £20 BCON008S Signed Jock Lowe...... £30 BCON008S3 Signed Richard Routledge & Jeremy Rendall.. £30

BCON009S Signed Mike Bannister...... £30 BCON009 30th Ann. 1st flight to Barbados...... £20 BCON009S2 Signed Terence Henderson & Les Evans.. £30 BCON009S3 Signed Viv Gunton & John Tye...... £30 BCON009S4 Signed David Rowland & Dave Leney...... £25

BCON010 30th Ann. of Prototype 101 (01), retiring to the science museum at Duxford...... £25 Sign up to our Concorde emails! Visit www.buckinghamcovers.com/family

2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] BCON011 Set of Concorde covers, each with 3 Nauru Concorde stamps and Nauru FDI...... £40 BCON011S Signed Jock Lowe, Adrian Thompson, Paul Douglas & Les Brodie. £85

BCON011S3 Signed by USA film Star George Kennedy....£80 BCON011A Middle stamp has First Flight of Concorde 002 BCON012S Signed Peter Baker...... £35 9 April 1969...... £10 BCON012 Concorde - Design Icon new Jersey BCON011S4 Signed Steve Wand & John Massie...... £35 Concorde stamp...... £20 BCON011B Middle stamp has 50th Ann. of the Battle of Britain 6 June 1990...... £15 BCON011C Middle stamp has Concorde G-BOAF...... £15 BCON011S7 Signed by Roger Mills, Martin Robson, Ron Weidner & John Chorley...... £24.95 BCON011D Stamp on right reads First Commercial Flight 21 January 1976...... £15 BCON011S5 Signed Edouard Chemel & Peter Horton.£25

BCON013 40th Ann. of Concorde being unveiled at Toulouse...... £20 BCON013S Signed Gilbert Defer...... £35 BCON013S2 Signed Christopher Orlebar & Richard Pike £24.95

BCON014S Signed Jean Pinet...... £45 BCON014 5th Ann. of the final Commercial flight Paris to New York...... £20

Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t BCON015 5th Ann. of the final commercial flight forget to ask about Flexi Pay! to Barbados...... £20 Call 01303 278137 for full details. BCON015S Signed Les Brodie...... £35 BCON015SP Signed Les Brodie & Mike Bannister...... £45

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 BCON016 5th Ann. of the final commercial flight London - New York...... £25 BCON016S Signed Adrian Thompson...... £35 BCON016DBL Doubled with IOM Newspaper Headlines stamp & postmark 04/07/13...... £30

BCON017S Signed Mike Bannister...... £35 BCON017 5th Ann. of the final commercial flight New York - London...... £20

BCON018SP 5th Ann. of the final flight of Concorde home to Filton. Signed Mike Bannister, Les Brodie & Paul Douglas...... £55

BCON021SP2 40th Ann. of the First Flight of British Concorde, Filton special round postmark and signed by Mike Bannister, Barbara Harmer and Alan Haywood (limited edition of 35)...... £75 BCON021 40th Ann. of the 1st ever flight of British Concorde...... £25 BCON021S Signed John Allan...... £30 BCON019SP2 Concorde se-tenant block of 4 from the Design Classics PSB booklet and our official BCON021SP Signed Mike Addley, Peter Holding & Concorde running postmark. Signed John Allan...... £42.50 John Cochrane...... £80 BCON021A Alternative postmark...... £25 BCON019SP4 40th Ann. of the First British Flight of BCON021AS Signed John Allan...... £35 Concorde. Signed John Cochrane & BCON021ASP Signed Mike Addley, John Allan & Alan Haywood...... £75 Pete Holding...... £42.50 BCON021ASQ Limited Edition of 50.. Signed Peter Holding, John Allan & Mike Addley...... £30

BCON020S Signed Michel Retif...... £45 BCON020 40th Ann. of the 1st ever flight of Concorde. Postmarked Toulouse on 2nd March and fea BCON022S Signed Tony Benn...... £35 turing a scarce 1969 French Concorde stamp BCON022 40th Ann. British & French Concorde meet at and cachet...... £20 Paris Air Show...... £20

4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] BCON023S Signed Jean Pinet...... £35 BCON024S Signed Peter Baker...... £30 BCON023 40th Ann. of Concorde reaching Mach 1.£20 BCON024 40th Ann. of Concorde 002 flying at Mach 1 for the first time. Postmarked 25/03/10 Fairford. Features 3 1969 stamps and special cachet...... £17.50

BCON025S Signed Alan Heywood...... £25 BCON025 Concorde prototypes 001 & 002 flying at Mach 2 with label & stamp plus French Concorde BCON026AS Signed John Chorley...... £31.95 stamp with cachet...... £15 BCON026A 25th Ann. of G-BOAB first chartered flight to New Zealand taking in Hally’s Comet along the way...... £19.95

BCON027S Signed Jock Lowe...... £30 BCON027 20th Ann. when Concorde flew QEII and Prince Philip to Washington, with 1st class BCON028S Signed Edouard Chemel...... £30 Concorde stamp pmk Filton 14/5/11 plus American stamp and cachet...... £17.50 BCON028 40th Ann. of Concorde’s 1st transatlantic Toulouse-Brazil with stamp & label & Brazil stamp with cachet...... £17.50

BCON029 40th Ann. of G-AXDN Concorde 101’s maiden flight with stamp from design classics PSB pane...... £17.50 BCON029S Signed Mike Bannister...... £30

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www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 BCON030S Signed Christopher Orlebar...... £25 BCON030 50th Ann. of the Anglo-French treaty being signed to build Concorde with 1st class Con corde stamp with London postmark & genuine 1976 French stamp with cachet.£15

BCON031 30th Ann. of Concorde breaking the Atlantic speed record between N.York & London featuring a Union Jack stamp & special pmk plus USA stamp & cachet & further cachet with flight information...... £15 BCON031S Signed Mike Bannister...... £30 BCON031S2 Signed Richard Pike...... £20 BCON032S Signed Yvonne Pope Sintes...... £25 BCON032 40th Ann. of the 1st Non-stop North Atlantic Crossing Flight with 2002 Jet Aircraft Concorde under wing stamp & Washing, Sussex pmk and 2 extra stamps & cachet...... £17.50

BCON033S Plus USA Liberty/Flag stamp & cachet. Signed Adrian Thompson...... £27.50 BCON033A 10th Ann. of Concorde’s last commercial flight: London to NY & NY to London...... £15 BCON036 Buckingham Design Icon Concorde cover with Concorde stamp from Isle of Man Innovation in Aerospace...... £12.

BCON037 30th Ann. of 1st round the world flight, postmarked Heathrow Airport 23/11/16...... £13.50

BCON038 40th Anniversary of the inauguration of British Airways London - New York service on 22nd November 2017 ...... £11.95

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BCON009SET £60 Barbados Set of 3 covers marking 30th Anniversary of first flight to Barbados postmarked 02/11/07

BCONXL006 £200 £26 per month over 10 months Set of 10 covers marking 30th Anniversary of first flight to Washington, each featuring a different label.

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CK77/12A £35 CK78/09 £35 CK79/02G1 £35 CK79/02I £35 London - Singapore 09/12/77 The Bell Inn Concorde Her Majesty The Queen’s Barcelona-London signed Capt. A Meadows & Charter Flight 19/09/78 flight in Concorde 25/02/79 signed Capt. K Capt J Hirst. signed Capt. Brian Calvert 17/02/79 signed Capt. A R Lenay Co-Pilot R Taylor & Meadows Flt.Eng I Kirby

CK81/08A £50 CK81/09B £50 CK81/10B £50 CK82/10B £35 Flying Display at Midland London- RAF Finningley Return Glasgow-London Return Bordeaux - London RAFA Air Display Coventry 19/09/81 signed Capt. K 11/10/81 signed Capt. 16/10/82 signed by Pilot J Airport 16/08/81 signed Leney Co-Pilot W Lowe & Flt. C McMahon Co-Pilot J Hutchinson, Co-Pilot Ian Capt. J D Eames, Co-Pilot Eng. D MacDonald Phillingham & Flt. Eng. W Smith & Flt. Eng. Bill Brown C D Green & Flt. Eng. W D Johnston Johnston

CK83/10C £35 CK83/10F £35 CK83/11A £35 CK83/11B £35 Manchester-Mallorca Orlando-New York 16/10/83 London - Edinburgh 29/11/83 Edinburgh-London Return 21/10/83 signed Capt. H signed Capt. McMullen signed Capt. B Walpole 30/11/83 Signed Capt. B G T Linfield Co-Pilot B Oliver & Co-Pilot B Oliver & Flt. Eng. J Co-Pilot J Phillingham & Flt. Titchener. Co-Pilot W J Piper Flt. Eng. J Stanbridge Stanbridge Eng. T Quarrey & Flt. Eng. D A MacDonald

CK84/08B1 £35 CK84/08F £35 CK84/09B £35 CK84/12B £35 Keflavik - London 18/08/84 Edinburgh - Newcastle Oslo - London Return Malaga - London Return signed Capt. J Massie & Return 27/08/84 signed 24/09/84 signed Capt.J 07/12/84 signed Capt. J W Capt D Mitchell. Capt. J Hutchinson, Co- Chorley, Co-Pilot R Taylor Burton, Co-Pilot R Taylor & Pilot P Horton & Flt.Eng. & Flt.Eng.P Egginton. Flt. Eng. J D Rodger B Brown.

CK85/06E £35 CK85/06F £35 CK85/07A £35 CK85/07B £35 London - Tours 15/06/85 Return Tours - London London - Oshkosh Oshkosh - London Return signed Capt. C Morris 16/06/85 signed Capt. C 26/07/85 signed by Capt. J 30/07/85 signed by Capt. Morris Cook, Co-Pilot Ian Smith & J D Eames, Co-Pilot Ian Flt. Eng. D A MacDonald Smith & Flt. Eng. D A MacDonald

8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] CK79/02N £35 CK79/02O £35 CK79/09A1 £35 CK79/09C £35 London-Barcelona Barcelona-London International Air Show New Toronto-Prestwick 01/09/79 24/02/79 signed Capt. P 25/02/79 signed Capt. K York - Toronto 01/09/79 signed Capt. C McMahon Duffe Leney Co-Pilot R Taylor Flt. signed Capt B Walpole. Co-Pilot R Taylor & Eng. Flt. Eng. I Kirby J Goatham

CK83/05D £35 CK83/05E £35 CK83/09A £35 CK83/09B £35 Paris - Belfast 28/05/83 Belfast - Paris 28/05/83 London - Liverpool 24/09/83 Return Liverpool - London signed Capt. C Morris signed Capt. B Walpole signed by Capt. C Morris, 24/09/83 signed Capt. C Co-Pilot B Irven & Flt. Eng. Co-Pilot C Orlebar & Flt. Co-Pilot P W Horton & Flt. Morris, Co-Pilot P W Horton B Brown Eng. D MacDonald Eng. R Bricknell & Flt. Eng. R Bricknell

CK84/03B £35 CK84/05B £35 CK84/06B £35 CK84/07A £35 Return Miami - London Cardiff - London 26/05/84 London - RAF Mildenhall Prestwick - New York signed Capt. B O Walpole, signed Capt. N Britton, Return 10/06/84 signed Capt. 23/07/84 signed Capt. J W Co-Pilot C J D Orlebar & Flt. Co-Pilot J Phillingham & Flt. J Hutchinson, Co-Pilot J Cook Burton, Co-Pilot M Bannister Eng. J Stanbridge Eng. P Phillips. & Flt.Eng. D MacDonald. & Flt. Engineer J Rodger.

CK85/03C £35 CK85/04F £35 CK85/06C £35 CK85/06D £35 London-Tampa-London Baltimore - London Return London - Omaha 13/06/85 Omaha - London Return 30/03/85 signed Capt. J 26/04/85 signed Capt. C signed Capt. H Linfield, 14/06/85 signed Capt. H Burton & J Chorley, Co-Pilots Morris Co-Pilot R Taylor & Co-Pilot B Oliver & Flt. Eng. Linfield, Co-Pilot B Oliver & J Piper C Green & W Lowe Flt. Eng. J Stanbridge P Eggington Flt. Eng. P Eggington & Flt. Engs. W Johnston & D MacDonald

CK85/07C £35 CK85/08A £35 CK85/09E £35 CK85/09K £35 Flying Display & First Charter London - Houston 21/08/85 London - Oklahoma New York - Birmingham Flight Oshkosh Airport signed Capt. B G T Titchener 06/09/85 signed Capt. 09/09/85 signed Capt. J 27/07/85 signed Capt. J D Co-Pilot D Whitton & Flt. Eng. J Eames Co-Pilot J Burton Co-Pilot P Horton & Cook, Co-Pilot W I Smith & I V Kirby Phillingham & Flt. Eng. R Flt. Eng. J Stanbridge Flt. Eng. D A MacDonald Bricknell

www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 JOHN COCHRANE CE130 £75 SIGNED COVERS 1969 GPO Cover.

John Cochrane was a British Test Pilot for the Anglo-French Supersonic airliner. His career began when he joined the renowned 617 Squadron (“Dambusters”) where he flew the CE132 £75 English Electric Canberra bomber, Concorde 002 First Britain’s first jet powered bomber. Flight BAC stamp Once Cochrane resigned from cover with Filton the RAF he was appointed project special postmark. test pilot as assembly of the British ONLY 1 AVAILABLE Prototype began at Filton 1966.

GILBERT DEFER SIGNED COVERS

CE210 £100 Gilbert Defer from Toulouse had 1450 hours of piloting Concorde and has £20 per month for 5 months also been one of the test pilots of 1969 GPO doubled the supersonic aircraft. He was a in France on the respected figure in the French 20th Anniversary. Air Force.

CE211 £85 1969 Concorde Modele French cover. MICHAEL RETIF 1 IN STOCK SIGNED COVERS

Michael Retif a former Flight Engineer. Retif was on board Concorde CE200 £50 Prototype 001 on the maiden French Modele first day flight at Toulouse as one of the cover with Toulouse engineer observers. special postmark.

CE204 £50 French Europa FDC, Toulouse CE205 £50 special Blue postmark with illustration. Strasbourg CDS.

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Andre Turcat was a French Chief Test Pilot. He was present on board the Air France Concorde (F-BVFC) during its retirement CE237 £400 flight, on the 27th June 2003, to the Airbus plant at Toulouse, where the French 1983 Concorde aircraft was built. Flown French Space Academy Cover.

CE238 £400 1969 French cover with Toulouse CDS. CE239F £400 1987 Air France multi-postmarked round the world cover. These covers are available on FlexiPay £40 per month over 10 months

MIKE BANNISTER SIGNED COVERS C184CS £40 Captain Mike Bannister is most famous as 17th November 2003 the Chief Pilot of BA’s Concorde fleet. He Concorde Final Flight, London joined BA’s crew in 1977 where we became its - Barbados. youngest pilot, completing the first ever course for ‘Line Flight Crew’. Over the years Mike was a member of a number of government & industry policy groups dedicated to aviation safety & became a Concorde instructor in 1986. Mike was the pilot for the last ever commercial Concorde flight on 24th October 2003 when 3 CE150 £45 landed in succession at Heathrow, BHC cover double postmarked ending 27 years of supersonic operations. 2001 First flight after the fire and 2003 Last passenger flight.

CE152 £35 Mike Bannister, signed 2002 Airliners 50 years of Jet travel cover. 1 IN STOCK

C185I £200 £50 per month for 4 months 22nd Jan 76 Bahrain - London Airletter, plus 20th Oct 2003 New York - London and 26th Nov 2003 Heathrow - Filton, signed by Les Brodie and Mike Bannister. ONLY 1 AVAILABLE

C185D £150 £30 per month for 5 months 22nd January 1976 Concorde Airletter carried on the first (Bahrain) and last (New York - London, 24th October 2003) Commercial flight of Concorde.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 11 MULTI SIGNED C185H £100 £20 per month for 5 months 1976 First Scheduled Flight to Washington, flown Air letter. Signed Paul Douglas, Les Brodie & Leslie Scott.

CE120 £175 £35 per month for 5 months ONLY 1 AVAILABLE Stuart FDC signed by Brian Trubshaw, Neville Duke, Don Wales, Owen Wyn Owen & Peter Twiss. C184S £39.95 Official BA Flown Cover 24/10/03 final flight London - Edinburgh - London. Signed Andrew Baillie (Heathrow - Edinburgh) & Les Brodie (Edinburgh - Heathrow).

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