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Heavier-Than-Air Flights continued...

U.S. Government Flights, First Flights and Related continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
401   image1931 (Jun 21), Post-Gatty Round-the-World Flight, cover franked with 2¢ carmine tied by Jun 21 Mineola N.Y. machine cancel, also postmarked Berlin c.d.s. (Jun 24) with violet Moscow cachet/cancels (Jun 29) and Jul 1 Mineola receiver also on front; signed by pilot, Wiley Post and navigator, Harold Gatty, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1141; $650.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image)
Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
402   image1931 (Jul 28), Non-Stop Flight New York - Istanbul, two small, serially numbered American Legion cards postmarked Boston, Aug 26 & 29, and backstamped Istanbul, Jul 30; also includes a "stub" for one of the two cards stating "Card will be mailed from Europe upon arrival of the plane.". In addition, included is a C.A.M. 33 cover signed by one of the two pilots, John L. Polando.
AAMC TO 1145a [2].
Estimate $250 - 350

These cards were prepared for a flight to have been held in conjunction with the 1930 American Legion Convention, but the flight never took place. Subsequently, Russell Boardman, one of the pilots on this New York - Istanbul flight, agreed to carry them with him.
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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
403   image1933 (Jul 18), Balbo Return Flight, Chicago - Shediac, New Brunswick, registered cover postmarked Chicago, Jul 18, with black flight cachet and Jul 26 Shediac backstamp; stamps added on the back and reposted to the sender, prominent airmail collector, George Beach, in Howard Beach, L.I. backstamped New York (Jul 28) and Howard Beach (Jul 29), Very Fine, only 37 covers were carried from Chicago to Shediac.
Sassone GP54; €5,000 ($5,330). AAMC TO 1184a.
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $1,200-1,800
SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
404   image1933 (Jul 18), Balbo Return Flight, Chicago - Rome, registered cover similar to the previous lot postmarked Chicago, Jul 18, with black flight cachet and Aug 12 Rome backstamp; again returned to George Reynolds in Howard Beach, this time with a "Return to Sender, Insufficient Address" label attached on the front and no added postage, Very Fine. Only 220 covers were carried the whole length of the flight.
Sassone GP56; €2,250 ($2,400). AAMC TO 1184c.
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image)
Suggested Bid $500-750
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
405   image1933 (Jul 25), Balbo Return Flight, New York - Shoal Harbour, Newfoundland, yet another registered cover similar to the two previous lots, this one postmarked New York, Jul 23, with purple flight cachet and Jul 26 Shoal Harbor backstamp; again returned to George Reynolds in Howard Beach with no added postage, Very Fine, Only 99 covers were carried from NY to Shoal Harbor.
Sassone GP58; €3,750 ($4,000). AAMC TO 1184e.
Estimate $750 - 1,000. (Image)
Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
406   image1933 (Jul 25), Balbo Return Flight, New York - Rome, registered cover postmarked New York, Jul 24, with purple flight cachet and Aug 12 Rome backstamp; slight stain at lower right, Fine to Very Fine. 492 covers were carried from New York to Rome.
Sassone GP59; €2,000 ($2,130). AAMC TO 1184f.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image)
Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
407   image1934 (Feb. 18), Eddie Rickenbacker Coast-to-Coast Flight, 2 covers postmarked Feb. 18, 1934 (one with additional Grand Central Air Terminal cancel), with multi-line cachet confirming "This cover carried on the TWA/'City of Los Angeles' on its record-/breaking flight Feb. 18-19, 1934. …Captain Eddie Rickenbacker/Chief Pilot"; also a cover canceled New York, Nov. 10, 1934, signed by Rickenbacker and Silas A. Morehouse, noting "12 hours & 3 min from L.A. to N.Y.", plus a Nov. 24, 1934, New York-cancelled cover signed by Rickenbacker with "Time 14 hours 56 minutes flying time" for the Miami-Newark route, with "This Letter Carried/By the Kindness of/Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker" typewritten; accompanied by two autographed photos, newspaper clippings, and Rickenbacker's business card as President and General Manager of Eastern Airlines, Very Fine.
AAMC SH 679.
Estimate $250 - 350

The Feb. 18 flight was the last plane to carry C.A.M. covers, as the government's contracts with private companies to carry mail expired on Feb. 19. Rickenbacker's flight was a speed test, setting a record time for Los Angeles to New York of 13 hours, 5 minutes.
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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
408   image1934 (Aug. 2), First Official Lustig Sky Train Flight, five covers, each signed by one or more of the pilots (including one signed by all three glider pilots), plus one signed by glider pilot Franklin and tow pilot Keim; accompanied by two photos, one of Smith testing two-way radio equipment "about 5 min. before take-off" and a second (faded) photo inscribed "Glider after being unhooked gliding to ground at Floyd Bennet Field on test flight", along with a Linn's article on the flight, Very Fine.
AAMC G19.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
409   image1935 (June 18), Al & Fred Key Endurance Record Flight, 3 covers flown by the Key brothers in their endurance record setting flight of 653 hours and 34 minutes over Meridian, MS; a wealth of dated (or datestamped) articles follow the brothers in their trip over the airport they ran, along with photos (many signed) of the boys and/or their plane, along with later articles, advertisements, etc.; lot also includes 2 addressed, unused airmail covers signed by the Keys and by Helen Richey, who had set the endurance record of 10 days in 1933 (and went on to become the first woman pilot hired by a commercial airline in the U.S.), great handwritten notes by the brothers, Very Fine, a fascinating look at the early days of aviation, when the sky really was still the limit.
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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
410   image1935 (Aug. 20), Wiley Post Stratospheric Flight, a very pretty pair of covers, each franked with 6¢ postage cancelled Los Angeles, Aug. 20, 1935, and bearing large pictorial cachet reading "First Air Mail Stratospheric Flight/U.S. Air Mail Route No. 2/Non-Stop/Coast to Coast/Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc./Wiley Post, Pilot"; large handstamp on reverse in blue reading "This letter was carried by Wiley Post/on the following attempted/transcontinental non-stop/stratosphere flights" with list of February-June 1935 flights; accompanied by numerous contemporary newspaper clippings and photos, one signed "Mae Post", Very Fine.
AAMC SH 693.
Estimate $200 - 302. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

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Suggested Bid $200-302
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
411   image1936 (Sep 30-Oct 19), H.R. Ekins Round-the-World in 18½ Days Tour, cover carried on the Batavia - Manila leg (Oct 7) on which reporter, Herbert R. "Buddy" Ekins was a passenger; also includes a souvenir cover from Ekins’ triumphant cross-country publicity tour, signed by Ekins, postmarked Cleveland, O., Oct 31, with rubberstamped cachet, "H.R. Ekins in Cleveland, 18&½ Days Around the World"; and 10 contemporary 4" x 6" photos of Ekins in Oakland and Los Angeles after arriving from Honolulu, Very Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200

Ekins, in a race with fellow reporters Leo Kiernan and Dorothy Killgalen, finished in 18 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes,—six days ahead of the other two. He had begun from Lakehurst aboard the Hindenburg and finished in Newark after over-flying Lakehurst.
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Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction
412   image1937 (Apr 21), Van Dusen Multi-Airline Round-the-World Flight, legal-size cover franked with 20¢ & 50¢ Clippers (C21-22) tied by Apr 19 New York duplexes; flown via United Airlines to San Francisco, where it was put aboard a Pan-American China Clipper for P.A.A.'s face-free from San Francisco to Hong Kong; where it was backstamped on Apr 28 and carried by Imperial Airways to Van Dusen in Penang, Malaya; in Penang the cover was franked with 65c postage, reposted on May 6 and sent via K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines, to Amsterdam, arriving on May 10; it was again reposted, this time with Dutch stamps, on May 15, and flown via Air France to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arriving on May 18; finally, being franked with Brazilian stamps, the cover was posted a fourth time on May 20, and carried by Pan-American to the P.A.A. offices in New York City. Originally the cover was to have been sent from Penang to Frankfurt for carriage on the Hindenburg, but by May 6, the day the cover left Penang, Hindenburg was already on her final, ill-fated voyage across the Atlantic.
AAMC F14-10 var.
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image)
Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
413   image1937 (June 24-25), Transcontinental Non-Stop Airboat cover, long airmail cover carried, as noted on the cover in typescript, on the transcontinental non-stop flight of "Guba", a consolidated PBY-type airboat (aka, a Catalina) from San Diego to New York City; cover is signed by all those aboard; mailed in New York to Harold Ramm (the flight's Radio Operator) at the American Museum of Natural History; no backstamp; vertical central fold not affecting stamp or signatures, Very Fine, a very scarce cover.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image)
Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
414   image1939 (Jun 15-Aug 25), Round-the-World Flight, registered cover with 3-country franking, flown Los Angeles - Los Angeles via New York (Jun 17), Birmingham, England (Jun 29, G.B. stamps added), Carterton, New Zealand (Jul 18), Auckland N.Z. (Aug 8, N.Z. stamps added), Honolulu (Aug 18) and Los Angeles (Aug 25), Very Fine.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $100-150
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
415   image1939 (Jun 24), First Round-the-World Flight by Imperial and Pan-American Airways, two F.A.M. 18 covers canceled on Jun 24 at New York and Shediac, respectively; the New York cover sent on to Canton, China, where it was reposted for Botwood on Jul 12; the Shediac cover was sent on to Hong Kong, where it was reposted for New York, also on Jul 12; both are backstamped Honolulu on Jul 25; the first also backstamped San Francisco (Jul 27) and various Canadian transits (Jul 28-30); the second is backstamped New York on Jul 28, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1324.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction
416   image1939 (Jun 30), American Export Airlines Survey Flights, three, first flight: Brooklyn - Marseille (Jun 30-Jul 5), second flight: Sea Bright, N.J.(Jul 11) - Shannon, Ireland (Jul 17) - Marseille (Jul 17) and Sea Bright (Jul 20) (also backstamped Biscarrosse, France - as addressed - on Jul 17); third flight: Sea Bright (Jul 21) - Botwood (Jul 28) - Marseille (Jul 29) - Lisbon (Aug 2) - Horta (Aug 3); all with appropriate stamps and markings, the first signed by pilot, Patrick J. Byrne and three others; the 2nd & 3rd signed (on reverse) by Byrne and four others; the last two also posted again at Brooklyn on Aug 4, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1326 & vars.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $100-150
SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction
417   image1939 (Sep 9-10), Japanese Goodwill Flight, Chicago - New York, cover franked with U.S. 6¢ Eagle tied by Sep 10 New York machine cancel; signed by the flight's crewmen, including co-pilot Shigeo Yoshida, to whom the cover was given in Chicago for mailing in New York, with a typed, signed statement to that effect from prominent airmail collector, Bill Schneider, Jr. on the back and numbered 1 of 4 such covers carried. Also includes a picture postcard mailed in Tokyo on Sep 5 bearing the red pictorial postmark commemorating the planned flight, several contemporary newspaper clippings about the flight and four real photo postcards showing the Nippon and its crew, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1330.
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

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Suggested Bid $500-750
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
418   image1940 (Feb. 1), Norfolk, VA - San Diego, CA, via Seaplane, airmail cover with corner card "Trans-Continental Seaplane Flight/U.S. Navy - XPBS - One/Norfolk, VA to San Diego, Calif", cancelled "Norfolk VA/Feb/1/1940/A.M./Naval Air Station"; reverse bears Feb. 28 Pensacola, FL, "U.S. Naval Air Sta." transit and Mar. 1 San Diego "U.S. Naval Air/Station" receiver along with Mar. 2 Lompoc, Calif. receiver; two-line handstamp "West Coast Airmail Society/San Francisco, Calif." oversigned in pen "JSJ"; light (rubber band?) stain front center, still Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1341.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
419   image1944 (Feb 28), B-29 Round-the-World Flight, legal-size War Dept. penalty envelope postmarked Washington D.C., Feb 28, 1944, addressed to 1st Lt. William W. MacIntyre at Stockton field, Calif.; on the left side of the cover is a signed handwritten statement from MacIntyre, "This envelope was carried around the world in B-29s from California to Tinian Island [Marianas] in the Superfort[ress] ‘Beachcomber’ and from Tinian on the Guam - Washington hop in B-29 #1 of Gen. Twining's flight and then from Wash. back to California in the same B-29"; MacIntyre was the pilot of both planes; small opening tears at top, otherwise Very Fine and unique.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
SOLD for $80.00
Will close during Public Auction
420   image1947 (Aug 9-Dec 10), First Round-the-World Flight by Single Engine Planes, four covers serviced by prominent airmail collector, Bill Schneider, Jr.; one canceled Oklahoma City (Dec 5), two Washington D.C. (Dec 6) and one Hackensack N.J. (Dec 10), Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1397.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

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