Pan Am Clipper Covers Or Stamps

Cynical - no, just the one for Shediac.
DavidR

For those interested in flying boats, The last two of the largest in the world are 90 minutes from me. I've seen them a few times on Sproat Lake, Vancouver Island, BC.

A few years ago, I had an opportunity to go aboard one while it was on land there for maintenance.

And, I saw one recently fly over Campbell River.

Although they aren't exactly the same as the PAA Clippers, they are truly giants of the air.

For more info:

www.martinmars.com/

or, google: Coulson Flying tankers

Another fine effort from The West Africa Study Circle:

http://www.wasc.org.uk/PanAm%20group.html ... The Wartime Atlantic Routes of Pan American Airways

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Stamp on cover - #C22 – 1937 50c Trans-Pacific carmine.
Mystic list these used at US$6.95 - that seems expensive.
2 US airmail stamps were issued on February 15, 1937 for use on the new Trans-Pacific Airmail Service to Hong Kong and to China. (The other one was green and value 20c)

Postmark. Morgan Annex - The Morgan Annex was/is a major mail sorting centre in Manhattan attached to the Farley building. It's also where an enormous amount of incoming and outgoing foreign mail was sorted which is why the naval mail service was based there.

Cover - First Air Mail Flight New York - Bolama Feb 1st 1941

The Philippine clipper which is pictured in this thread with the children popping out crashed in 1943 not too far from where I live in Northern CA. and even closer to littleriverphil.

Yikes!



Pilot error! 115 miles north of San Francisco? Where they trying to make the airport at Ukiah? Only airport in the county in 1943. The Little River airport was built by the Navy in 1945.

Glad I stumbled onto this thread! I've accumulated a number of clipper covers over the years, both for the stamps and the cachets.

As I was scanning these I discovered the first flight from Honolulu to San Francisco had a neat insert, complete with poem!





I also compiled a set of first flights along the San Francisco to Auckland, NZ clipper route. This ran SF-Honolulu-Noumea-Auckland. These are all the U.S. segments; I'm still looking for a Noumea (New Caledonia) to Auckland FF cover.

Thank you so much to everyone who posted on this topic. Going through the cover photos gave me shivers. Wonder full way to remember the innocent times over the pacific before the horrors of Pearl Harbor changed every thing. I don't collect these covers but I may start now. Again thanks to all for making my day.

Dave

Here are a couple more clipper covers. These are just regular use, not commemorating anything special.

The first is postmarked 12/8/37 out of Manila to the U.S. and has a clipper rubber stamp. I'm assuming all mail that flew on the clippers got this.



The second I have a question about. It has a ship cancellation from the USS Argonne, but also a light "Air Mail Clipper" rubber stamp. Postmarked 3/10/41. Would this have gone straight into the mail stream of wherever the Argonne was in port? Most likely this would have been Honolulu, as she was in Pearl Harbor later that year for repairs when the Japanese attacked.

My longest trip in the air was almost 16 hrs...of course, another time when there was a repair, we spend 4 hrs on the ground stuck on the plane and then the 12 hrs back to US.

Living in Australia can be a burden. We fly to the UK in a week, and that's a very long-haul.

I recently sold this Australian clipper cover

I hunted around and finally picked up a first flight clipper cover for the last leg of FAM 19: Noumea, New Caledonia to Auckland, New Zealand. So (according to the cancellations) the flight left San Francisco at 11 a.m. on July 12 and arrived in Auckland at 3 p.m. on July 18, gaining an extra day as it crossed the International Date Line. Real time: 196 hours, with three overnight layovers. Way faster than an ocean steamer. Today United offers an SFO-AKL nonstop that arrives in less than 13 hours.

Nice illustrated cover from 1935.

Although I am a bit worried about the length of the arm of the guy that carries the luggage.

From the Philippine Islands:

Two more from the Philippine Islands: