Beacon Airmail - Crash & Burn

I found the carmine and blue 5 cent Beacon Airmail Scott's C11 attractive early in my stamp collecting. Later I would specialize in postal history with this stamp. I seek out covers from hotels, especially illustrated with images of the hotel on the front. I also like mixed frankings with foreign stamps, and interrupted (crash) covers.

Here's a Beacon Airmail on a burned crash cover. AAMC 29-7 Interrupted Flight Cover cancelled San Francisco March 9, 1929 1PM.

The plane, piloted by R.T. Freng - CAM 18 (Contract Air Mail) Boeing Air Transport from San Francisco to Chicago, crashed near Park City, Utah in a blinding snowstorm March 11, 1929. The pilot and passenger K.A. Kennecy escaped, the plane burned. 1,026 pounds of mail was salvaged, Beacon covers are not uncommon. It was forwarded from Salt Lake City with two different types of rubber stamped cachets.

That's really cool - thanks for sharing it

and welcome to the board Michael

Michael! I like to see crash covers but I don't collect them. I have even seen one from the Hindenburg from lakehurst New Jersey tragedy.

I found a link that may interest you.

http://www.slettebo.no/scout/hindenburg.htm

Welcome to the forum Michael

I have heard of other collectors picking that stamp as a specialty. A lot of FDCs with a variety of cachets and special event covers can be found with that particular stamp on it.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Great cover! I like how it was repaired by the post office.

Crash Mail is another one of those well sought after areas in Postal History. No cover tells a story like one from a Plane crash.

Yeah, I love crash covers too.
The only reason I have one though is because it was addressed to my grandfather,
and then delivered, although a little late and waterlogged.

I_Love_Stamps

Thank you for the interesting link on the Hindenburg disaster. Don't remember reading about those covers in American Air Mail Journal, Linn's, or other sources.
-mpc