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SG143. 1919 (June 14).
$1 on 15c Bright scarlet. FIRST ATLANTIC FLIGHT Via "HANDLEY-PAGE" Aeroplane.
THE VICKERS-VIMY FLIGHT.
Two RAF Officers, Capt. John Alcock as pilot and Lt. Arthur Whittem Brown (signature at top left hand corner) as navigatop made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, leaving Lester's Field, St. Johns, landing near Clifden Ireland, in a bog eixteen hours, twelve minutes later. A total of one hundred and ninely-seven items were carried, all air mail for London and was backstamped 17 Jine (backstamped "London - EC 17 June 19" on arrival).
Extremely Rare.
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