Tag: Aircraft

  • 1993 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force

    1993 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force

    Commemorating the 75 years of the RAF Date: 1st April 1993 Stamps: 75th ANNIVERSARY of the ROYAL AIR FORCE 1918-1993 25c CONSOLIDATED CATALINA; 60c SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE; 75c BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER and $2 HANDLEY PAGE HALIFAX Official First Day Cover CDS: 01.APR93A HAMILTON BERMUDA Cachet: BERMUDA 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force 1918-1993 / Release Date:…

  • 1983 200th Anniversary of Manned Flight

    1983 200th Anniversary of Manned Flight

    Commemorating the anniversary of the Montgolfiers 1783-1983 Date: 13th October 1983 Stamps: 12c First Flight over Bermuda – Curtis Jenny 1919, 30c First completed flight between U.S. & Bermuda – Stinson ‘Pilot Radio’ 1930, 40c First Scheduled Passenger Flight ‘Cavalier’ Short Empire Flying Boat 1937 featuring Bermuda Airport Imperial Airways and $1 ‘USS Los Angeles’…

  • 1975 50th Anniversary of Air Mail Service

    1975 50th Anniversary of Air Mail Service

    Commemorating 50th Anniversary of Air Mail Service to Bermuda Date: 28th April 1975 Cachet: First Day of Issue “50th Anniversary of Air Mail Service” 28th April, 1975 Stamps: 5c Cavalier June 1937; 17c First Air Mail to Bermuda by Airship Los Angeles April 1925 showing Lakehurst; 20c Constellation January 1946 showing Kindley Field and 25c…

  • 1968 British Eagle Inaugural Flight return to London

    1968 British Eagle Inaugural Flight return to London

    First Bermuda to London air mail service by British Eagle Airlines Date: 1st May 1968 Type: First Flight Cover CDS: -1MAY68D HAMILTON BERMUDA Backstamp: BRITISH EAGLE 91-4 9052 -4MAY1968 TICKET DESK LONDON Cachet: BRITISH EAGLE INAUGURAL FLIGHT TO BERMUDA BY BOEING 707 JET. SECOND CLASS AIRMAIL. Address: British Eagle International Airlines Ltd, 50-51 Conduit Street,…

  • 1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    Commemorating the first flight between Bermuda and New York Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways opened up a New York-Bermuda-London flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on…