raf catalogueRAFC14 RYW015I £500 £50 per month for 10 months 8th May 1964 Typed letter on the headed paper and signed in ink by Lord Tedder GCB (1890 - 1967), World War II RAF Mediterranean Commander. In the letter he apologises for not being able to attend a March and Service for the Association of Lancastria Survivors. Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details. 1971 RAF Uxbridge 31st Anniversary of the Battle of Britain flown covers, signed by Sir Keith Park (1892 - 1975) organized the Dunkirk Evacuation, the Defence of London during the Battle of Britain and the Defence of Malta. RYP001 £995 £99.50 per month for 10 months 01303 278137 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF 1 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYP007F £100 1991 50th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbour signed in Japanese by Noubo Fujita (1911 - 1997), the only Japanese pilot to bomb the US mainland in World War II. £50 per month for 2 months Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details. RYR005J £395 The Jubilee Limited Edition Prints. Set of four Eric Kennington Prints in special presentation folder featuring and signed by Douglas Bader, John Cunningham, James Lacey and Rod Learoyd. Also supplied with a certificate and letter from the RAF Benevolent Fund. £39.50 per month for 10 months RYP005A £400 1 IN STOCK 1970 RAF Benham 25th Anniversary of VE Day triple flown cover, signed by: Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893 - 1971) Head of Bomber Command. General Joseph Kammhurer (1896 - 1986) Head of the German Night Fighters. Adolf Galland (1912 - 1996) German Fighter Ace with 104 Victories from 705 missions. Dietrich Peltz (1914 - 2001) German Bomber pilot who flew 320 missions. RYR013 £150 LAST 1 AVAILABLE £50 per month for 8 months 1985 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Colditz cover, signed by Major Pat Reid MBE, MC (1910 - 1990) one of the few to escape from the castle and Lieutenant Jack Courtenay KRRG, RASC also an inmate and member of 01303 278137 the Eichstatt gang. EMAIL: [email protected] £50 per month for 3 months 2 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAFC11RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYG040F £40 1969 RAF Chivenor International Air Day, signed by: Rolf Pingel (1913 - 2000) - Luftwaffe ace with 28 victories from 550 missions. Bob Doe (1920 - 2010) - British fighter ace with 14 victories and the third highest scoring ace of the Battle of Britain. RYG040E £50 RYG040G £40 1970 Airmail Centenary cover, signed by: 1976 American Bicentenary Edmund Robmann (1918 - 2005) - German ace RAF cover signed by: with 93 victories from 640 missions. Eduard Isken (1918 - 1997) Willard Eder (1915 - 2009) - American ace with - Luftwaffe ace with 56 5 victories. victories. Plus Battle of Britain pilots Graham Leggett, James Rigg (1915 - 2004) - Trevor Gray, Jocelyn Millard and Alan Gear. American ace with 11 victories. Plus Battle of Britain pilots Trevor Gray, Alan Gear, Jocelyn Millard and Graham Leggett. RYG040C £50 1972 RAF Iceland Expedition cover, signed by: Oskar Romm (1919 - 1993) - German ace with 92 victories. Helmut Lipfert (1916 - 1990) - German ace with 203 Victories from 687 missions but was also shot down himself 15 times without being injured. Captain John ‘Tom’ Blackburn (1912 - 1994) - American World War II ace with 11 victories. Plus Battle of Britain pilots Alan Gear, Graham Leggett, Trevor Gray and Jocelyn Millard. Flexi-pay available on all items! No interest charged - payment options up to 12 months RYY001A £750 1 IN STOCK £75 per month for 10 months 1988 United Nations cover has been signed by five allied, and Leonard Cheshire (1917-1992) highly decorated RAF pilot four German veterans of World War Two. Signed by: and VC winner. Fred Olivi (1922-2004) co-pilot on the Nagasaki Nuclear Hugo Brock (1922-) Luftwaffe ace credited with 81 victories Bombing mission. on the Eastern Front. Chuck Yeager (1923-) in 1947 became the first pilot to have Eric Topp (1914-2005) third most successful German U-Boat exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. commanders of WWII sinking 35 ships. Tex Hill (1915-2007) US fighter pilot and flying ace in WWII and Korea. Helmut Witte (1915-2005) 20th highest scoring U-Boat ace of WWII as commander of U-159 he sank 23 ships. Chuck Lindberg (1920-2007) US marine famous for being one of the men who raised the US flag on Iwo Jima pictured Hans-Gunther Lange (1916-2014) submarine commander of in the iconic wartime photo. U-711 and Knights Cross winner. 3 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAFC11RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYG040B £60 1972 RAF Museum Opening cover, signed by: Alfred Grislawski (1919 -2003) - German ace with 133 victories from 800 missions. Gerhard Schopfel (1912 - 2003) - Luftwaffe Commander with 45 victories. Commander Louis Menard (1922 - 2002) - American ace RYG039T £35 1 IN STOCK with 9 victories. 1979 Jet Flight RAF cover, signed by Franz Elles, Luftwaffe ace with 5 victories. RYG040D £50 1978 Shuttleworth Collection cover, signed by: Gerhard Schopel (1912 - 2003) - Luftwaffe Commander with 45 victories. Franz Josef Beerenbrock (1920 - 2004) - 117 victories from 400 missions before being taken prisoner of war in 1942. RYG004N £50 1975 RAF Hendon German Special, signed by: Hans Grunberg (1917 - 1998) - German ace with 82 victories from 550 missions including at least 11 four engine bombers. Lt Col Jack Price (1918 - 2001) - American ace with 5 victories plus Battle of Britain pilots Peter Ayerst, Tony Russell, Alan Gear and Military Medal winner Avis Hearn. RYG036S £50 1971 RAF Leeming cover, signed by: Maurice Long (1918 -2008) - American ace with 5 Victories. Martin Becker (1916 - 2006) - German night fighter with 58 night victories from 100 missions . Hermann Greiner (1920 - 2014) - German night fighter with 46 night victories from 126 missions Certified limited edition of 10 covers. RYE001 £150 RYG036U £75 1972 RAF Escape cover, signed by Sir Basil Embry GCB, KBE, 1969 RAF Linton On Ouse flown Rossbach cover, DSO & 3 Bars, DFC, AFC(1902 - 1977), Bomber Squadron signed by Knights Cross winner Alexander Uhlig Leader, who escaped while Prisoner of War. (1919 - 2008) www.buckinghamcovers.com 4 RYG035A £350 £35 per month for 10 months 1939 40th Anniversary of the first jet flight flown cover, signed byHans Von Ohain (1911 - 1998) German Jet Inventor and Erich Warsitz (1906 - 1983) the German Test pilot. www.buckinghamcovers.com RYG036N £50 1970 RAF Halton No1 School of Technical Training flown cover signed by American Ace Alex Vraciu (1918 - 2015), American Ace with 19 Victories, who once downed 6 Japanese planes in 8 minutes and Luftwaffe Ace Rolf Pingel (1913 - 200) with 26 Victories who flew in the Battle of Britain before being taken Prisoner of War Want to spread the payments on these RYG037D £125 amazing covers? Don’t £25 per month for 5 months 1971 RAF Leeming Rossbach (28) cover, signed by forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Lieutenant Anton Benning, Colonel Rudolf Muller, Call 01303 278137 for full details. Major Georg Peter Eder, Lieutenant Colonel Hans Heise and Major Hermann Schmidt RYG036K £50 LAST 1 IN STOCK 1981 Test Pilot cover, signed by Gerhard Nitschke - Henkel Test Pilot Karl Bo3hm Tettelbach (1908 - 2001) - Luftwaffe Ace and part of the German Delegation at the 1937 £50 per month RYG036Y £100 Coronation of King George VI ONLY 1 AVAILABLE for 2 months Ulrich Steinhiper (1918 - 2009) - Luftwaffe Ace 1972 RAF Topcliffe Night Bomber Squadron flown Rossbach cover, who while a POW in Canada made a number of escape signed by Hans Joachim Jabs (1917 - 2003), German Ace with attempts 50 Victories, 31 of which were at night becoming commander of John Keatings (1916 - 2010) - Battle of Britain pilot the Night fighter Squadron plus Walter Scheel (1919 - 2016), a with 219 Squadron radar operator during World War II and later president of Germany between 1974 - 1979 5 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAFC11RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYG037E £75 1 IN STOCK 1971 RAF Pitreavie Castle Rossbach (29) cover, signed by Erich Hartmann, Johannes Geismann, Theo Osterkamp and Dieter Peltz. RYG037H £50 1971 RAF Thorney Island Rossbach (38) cover, signed by General Lieutenant Martin Harlinghaussen and General Major Walter Storp RYT014I £250 £50 per month for 5 months Our choice of American cover signed by the Crew of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets (1915 - 2007) pilot, Dutch Van Kirk (1921 - 2014) Navigator and Tom Ferebee (1918 - 2000) Bombardier. RYH001C £50 1992 Isle of Man 50th Anniversary of the Parachute Regiment First Day Cover, signed by Brigadier Alastair Pearson CB, DSO & 3 Bars, OBE, MC, TD, DL (1915 - 1996) - Took part in Operation Torch, Invasion of Sicily and Operation Tonga General Sir John Hackett GC, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC, (1910 - 1997) - Took part in the North African Campaign and Operation Market Garden Brigadier James Hill DSO & 2 Bars, MC (1911 - 2006) - Commander of the 3rd Parachute Regiment during World War II plus Artist Tony Theobald who is the stamp designer RYJ023D £50 LAST IN STOCK 1995 Battle of Britain Biggin Hill Open Day Spitfire flown cover, signed byUlrich Steinhiliper, Desmond Sheen, Peter Ayerst, Alan Gear, John Gibson and Tony Russell 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected] RYH007 £50 1991 Set of three covers marking ‘The Homecoming’ and flown back with the released Hostages, signed by John McCarthy and Terry Waite plus the printed signature of Jackie Mann www.buckinghamcovers.com 6 £89.95 per month RYH008K £895 ONLY 1 AVAILABLE for 10 months 1972 Farnborough Airshow Hawker Hunter cover, signed by Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAes (1907 - 1996) - British Jet Inventor Hans Von Ohain (1911 - 1998) - German Jet Inventor Erich Warsitz (1906 - 1983) - German Test pilot.