Just Got Two New First Flight Covers (Newfoundland)

I just got these two pretty covers. Enjoy and welcome any comments.

First one is Newfoundland #117 canceled in St Johns on Feb 25, 1921 with a quaint note of "Per Air Mail Ship". With cachet of "Air Post St Anthony". The mail went from St Johns by rail to Botwood for the plane (de Havilland 9 piloted by Major Sidney Cotton). Plane was not ready, so in fact it never flew--but the covers (about 200) are still listed at FF5 in AAMC and FF5a in NSSC.

The second one is Newfoundland C6 or C9 on AAMC-FF45 or NSSC-FF32 from Corner Brook to St John on July 18 (looks like July 13 but its not) and backstamped there on July 20, 1931. This was the "Gypsy Moth" plane and the cover is signed by the pilot Arthur Sullivan (sorry, I just love that!). He landed on Quidi Vidi Lake with an unknown number of covers. A bad vertical fold but still.

Tommy: I'm happy for you but would you consider putting the word Newfoundland into the subject/title?

Sure, sorry

Tommy: in my younger days I "jigged" for cod off Botwood. Would loved to have been there though in 1939 to watch the Pan Am Clippers land and take off.

Tommy
Your Newfoundland collection continues to grow and I think the covers are great. Keep showing these prizes as you reel them in.

Cynical--yeah its hard to fathom how cool it would have been to see these planes take off and how historic it was. and men had some foresight to put little pieces of paper with stamps (or regular folk did so) on these machines.

where is corner brook anyways, near where you had fish and chips?

My subjective view is that the first cover above was just a regular post (based on the writing, the notes, the addressee etc) but just happened to be on a first flight. The latter feels more purposefully philatelic (the addressee, the stamp, the registration.

NBStamper--most gracious are you comments and encouragements, thank you.

I've just landed another little cover--see the separate topic posting (on Canada forum).