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Tag: RMA Cavalier

  • 1987 50th Anniversary of the Inaugural Bermuda Commercial Flights

    1987 50th Anniversary of the Inaugural Bermuda Commercial Flights

    50 years of commercial flights to and from Bermuda Date: 18th June 1987 CDS: 18.JUN87A HAMILTON BERMUDA Address: Crown Agents Stamp Bureau, St. Nicholas House, Sutton, England. Stamps: Bermuda 15c Sikorsky S-42B being moored after the inaugural flight from New York 18 June 1937; 40c Short S-23 ‘Cavalier’ which opened the Bermuda-New York route at…

  • 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…