What Type Of Plane Is Pictured On This Moçambique 1935 Stamp?

I know it's a four-engine, high-winged monoplane that seems to closely resemble the China Clipper.

Is it even a real plane?

Thanks for any information you can provide!

Guess:
An Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta

Try Googling Blantyre Beira Salisbury Air route

http://rhodesianheritage.blogspot.c...46-1961.html

It appears to be an Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta operated by Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways Limited (RANA). The side windows near the wing are fairly distinctive.

Thank you both so much. Trying to put together an aircraft exhibit with all the ones I have. Thanks again!

Hi,

SG Collect Aircraft Stamps identifies the plane as Armstrong Whitworth A.W.15 Atalanta G-APBI.

Just in case anyone's interested Atalantas have appeared on some other stamps:

G-ABTI on Dubai SG 321 from 1969.

G-ABPI on Egypt SG 214 from 1933.

Unnamed Atalanta on Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika SG 117 from 1935.

G-ABTI Artemis on Malta SG 734 from 1984.

G-ABTI on Rhodesia SG 573 from 1978.

G-ABPI on South Africa SG 788 from 1993.

There's a small aviation museum at what was Lord Armstrong's home at Bamburgh Castle, which also happens to be my favourite place.

Nice pictures Geoff.

The castle's not far from my home village in the Scottish Borders but I'm afraid I've not been yet.

I love the Northmberland coast, and you can you walk long stretches of it when the tide's out. Dunstanburgh Castle (a walk from the fishing and kipper-smoking village of Craster) is another favourite, but there are lots more, stretching up to Berwick. I envy you, by the way!

Armstrong also had a country house at Cragside, some 30km west of Bamburgh Castle. Cragside was the first property to be powered by hydro-electric power. The infrastructure is still in place to this day.

Bamburgh is a cracking castle and well worth the visit.

I believe the A.W.15s were individually named. They only made a handful of these planes, so each one got a unique name: Atalanta, Artemis, Arethusa and some others I can't recall, all starting with the letter "A".

Robert

That's correct Robert.

Here's a list of names and registration numbers from Wikipedia for the eight planes that were built:

Aircraft names and registrations

Atalanta (c/n 740; G-ABPI, renamed Arethusa; later VT-AEF, DG453)
Andromeda (c/n 741; G-ABTH)
Arethusa (c/n 742; G-ABTI, renamed Atalanta; later DG451)
Artemis (c/n 743; G-ABTJ; later DG452)
Athena (c/n 744; G-ABTK)
Astraea (c/n 784; G-ABTL; later DG450)
Amalthea (c/n 785; G-ABTG)
Aurora (c/n 786; G-ABTM, later VT-AEG, DG454)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armst...rth_Atalanta

I see this list isn't consistent with the SG catalogue descriptions I gave earlier.

The G-ABTH (in the aircraft photo) and G-ABPI (mentioned by nigelc) are the aircraft registrations/callsigns. The G represents Great Britain and the remaining characters are the actual registration/callsign. These were formalized for some countries in 1912 as part of ICAN (International Commission for Air Navigation) and all countries for ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization).