January 2016 Issue 14 TAKE OFF! AIR14 ARO09 20/10/34 London - Melbourne, Mac Robertson International Air Race, flown in the race, signed by Col. Rosco Turner (came third in the speed event) £75 ARP122 10/12/18 Stamp collecting aerial souvenir card flown by Hugh Vallency with a French S.20 Army Post Office departure CDS and a violet 7029 censor cachet, the design is a facsimile of a Mulready envelope £175 ARX49 Airmail Stamp Collection- miscellaneous selection of different airmail ARE220 01/07/25 London - Paris inauguration of the new fluvial aero-mail, (flying boat) piloted by Robert stamps from South Africa, UK, Australia, Newfoundland, and Egypt Bajac, printed matter - Imperial Airways £295 £30 ARE257 1934 Challenge Flight with overprinted ‘Challenge 1934’ Polish stamps and Polish Challenge strike £50 ARE78 1911 Indian First Aerial Post, with the violet ‘First Aerial Post/U.P. Exhibition Allahabad’ illustrated cancellation. This was the first aerial post anywhere in the world, and was ARB415 Collection of 10 BA TriStar flight covers, the inspiration for the UK Aerial Post from Hendon - Windsor our choice £80 later that year £500 £50 per month 10 months Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] American Airmail ARA100B 1927 Faga Card to commemorate Charles ARA100A Lindbergh’s non-stop 1928 postcard transatlantic flight carried on £20 Charles ARA100D Lindbergh’s 1977 50th anniversary of goodwill tour Charles Lindbergh’s trans- of Central America £50 Atlantic flight, flown over original route, signed by the pilot Weldon £20 ARA111 1968 50th Anniversary of US Air Mail FDC £10 ARA108 1931 Walter Hinton signed 1931 Service to Aviation US Tour which Hinton was a part of, flown, our choice £150 ARA114 1926 Minneapolis - ARA113 Chicago first flight of the contract air 1959 World Congress of Flight held in Las mail, crashed at Mendota, Minnesota Vegas from 13th - 19th April 1959 - cover and mail did not arrive at Chicago until flown on the RAF Vulcan flying display No. 617 Squadron, signed by Detachment the 8th £30 Commander Air Vice Marshall Walker £20 ARA115 1929 Denver, Colorado - Bay City, Michigan first airmail and dedication of Fort Collins Airport in Colorado - plane crashed at Cheyenne, Wyoming £30 ARA118 ARA116 1931 Pacific Air Transport Flight, 1941 Dedication and Opening of Oakland, California - Portland, crash mail - the Courtland, New York Airport, flown flight crashed on take-off at Oakland £30 Cortland - Canada £15 ARA119 ARA120 1941 Dedication and Opening of 1941 Dedication and Open- Krist-Port Airport, flown Detroit ing of Calkins Air Terminal, -Hot Springs, Arkansas Washington, flown from £15 Washington - Canada £15 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] ARA126 ARA127 1941 Dedication and 1940 Dedication and Opening of San Francisco Opening of Sioux Coast Guard Air Station, City Airport, flown flown San Francisco - Canada Sioux City, Iowa - Hot £15 Springs, Arkansas £15 ARA134 1949 First flight from Hancock, Michigan £15 ARA137 1926 Demonstration Flight flown by ARA136 1948 Sky Merchant World Flight - Atlas Supply Company Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Gladys Cobham, New equipped a flying salesroom on a global flight that visited 29 cities - 4500 York - Philadelphia - Washington, initialled ‘AJC’ ‘airsheets’ were produced by the American Air Mail Society £150 by Sir Alan J Cobham, our choice of leg £60 ARA139 1930 Miller Airport, N.C. Commemorating visit of Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte who had in Sept. completed first non-stop France-US flight, signed both pilots and US Sec, Chamber of Commerce £225 ARA139A Three 1930s covers commemorating Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte Goodwill Tour of America, which they went on after completing the first non-stop France -US flight £50 ARA102 Comet C4 Dallas - Mexico City 01303 278137 £15 EMAIL: [email protected] www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 ARA05 INTERNAL UK FLIGHTS 1974 Air Anglia Edinburgh - Norwich ARA16 £10 1978 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Stavanger £10 ARA25 1977 Air Anglia Glasgow - Norwich £10 ARB301 1934 British Industries Fair Birmingham, with Birmingham postmark £25 ARA50 1976 Air Anglia Jersey - Leeds £10 ARD07 1977 Dan Air Birmingham - Isle of Man ARD11 £10 1975 Dan Air Ostend - Gatwick ARD12 1975 Dan Air Gatwick - Ostend £10 £10 ARF04 1974 Air Freight Ltd. 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Subscribe to “Hear it First” at 6 www.buckinghamcovers.com/familyWarren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Imperial Airways ARI01 1932 Croydon - Cape Town, our choice £95 ARI01A 1932 Croydon - Johannesburg, our choice £95 ARI08 1934 Australia - London, our choice ARI06 1939 London - USA, our choice £25 £45 ARI08A 1934 London - Australia, our choice £45 ARI11 1935 London - Vienna, our choice £45 ARI17 1932 England - India, our choice £45 ARI14 1933 London - Burma, our choice £45 ARI29 1933 London - Akyab, our choice £45 ARI32 1931 London - Mwanza, our choice £45 www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 Channel Islands ARJ04 1937 Jersey Airways, Jersey - London £30 ARJ06 1939 Southampton - Guernsey, our choice £25 ARJ03 1937 Jersey Airways, Jersey - Southampton £30 ARJ08 1939 Guernsey Airways, Guernsey - England, our choice £25 ARJ19 1937 Jersey Airways, Jersey - Newport £30 ARJ12 1973 J. F. Airlines, Portsmouth - Guernsey £15 ARJ28 1973 Intra Airways ARJ26 Jersey - Deauville 1970 25th Anniversary of £10 the Return of the Islanders to Alderney £15 ARJ34 ARJ30 1973 BEA Guernsey - Amsterdam 1973 Intra £10 Airways, Jersey - Ostend £10 ARJ47 1976 American Bicentenary, Jersey - New York via London £10 ARJ72 1945 Channel Islands Liberated, first mail to England £25 Want to spread the payments on these amazing 8 covers? Don’t forget to askWarren about House, Flexi Shearway Pay! Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Call 01303 278137 for full details. Australian Airmail ARO01 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, flown£10 ARO11 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, flown by the outright winners £20 ARO02B 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, flown, signed by Pilot Rudd £25 ARO02 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, flown, signed by Squadron Leader J .C. Waters £25 ARO07 1959 40th Anniversary of the first official air mail in New Zealand £10 ARO03 1958 30th Anniversary of the first Tasman crossing £15 ARO18A 1969 50th Anniversary of the first flight England - Australia, doubled with BFPO 1102 postmark £15 ARO28 1978 50th Anniversary of the first solo England - Australia flight signed by Sqn Ldr David Cyster £20 ARO30S 1981 50th Anniversary of the first England - Australia official air mail, signed by Captain James Nightingale £7.50 ARO04 1932 England - Australia Christmas Flight by first all Australian air mail £45 www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 Australian Airmail ARO10 1937 Pan American Airways, New Zealand - USA per ‘Samoan Clipper’, our choice £25 ARO52 ARO19A 1953 London - New Zealand Air 1934 Australia Race, KLM cover with ‘Handicap Race’ cachet, - Papua New our choice (they won the race) £20 Guinea, flown by Charles Ulm in his ‘Faith in Australia’ Avro X £30 ARQ03 1952 Qantas Airways Sydney - Cocos Islands £20 ARQ01 1952 Qantas Sydney - Johannesburg £20 ARQ07 1952 Qantas Airways Sydney - Sydney via our choice of stop £20 ARQ29 1952 Qantas Airways Johannesburg - Sydney £20 ARQ28 1952 Qantas Airways Mauritius - Johannesburg £20 ARQ31 1952 Qantas Airways Johannesburg - Mauritius 1954 Qantas Sydney - Vancouver, signed by the two £20 ARQ33 pilots who flew both legs Captain K.