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RAF Signed Cover Collection 1 in Superb Album With Slipcase. 40  (approx) covers including rare varieties housed in expensive Importa Blue cover album with slipcase. Covers have a retail price of over £1100 including DE383 1972 RAF Sealand 30 Years in Maintenance Command cover, BFPS 1294 postmark. Flown from RAF Sealand to Bruggen to Andover to Valley and return. Red and green flight cachet details. Signed by three of the pilots who flew the covers between stations. RRP   £15 DE428 C26 21 Nov 73 BFPS 1405 Postmark Princess Mary Flown on Medical resupply flight in Westland to RAF Hospitals & Medical Est. Signed by the crew who flew the covers and Special Signed by Matron - in - Chief Air Commandant B.M.Ducat - Amos. RRP   £25 DE447 C33 21 Aug 74 FPO 965 Commemorating First Flight of the Hark First Development Aircraft XX154 . Black flown cachet. Flown on maiden flight of the Hawker Siddeley Hawk XX 154 Piloted by Mr D M S Simpson. Personally Signed by Mr D M S Simpson Chief Test Pilot H S A ( Kingston ) Certified Copy number 1355 of 1979. RRP   £25 DE454 C35 RAF Gliding & Soaring Association 25th Anniversary. Special Blue Flown cachet flown in a two seater Glider Schieicher Ka 13 from the Eagle Gliding Club at Detmold Germany flight time 12 minutes. Then cover was subsequently flown from RAF Gutersloh to Luton Airport on the 16th December 1974 and then delivered to the RAF Gliding & Soaring Association Centre at Bicester.Personally Signed by the Pilots Air Commodore N W Kearon CMG, CBE, RAF and Chief Technician G Kirby. Backstamped RAF Post Office Gutersloh 16th Dec 1974 and No 71 M.N. RAF Bicester 17 Dec 1974. Certified Copy No 117 of 1250. RRP   £25 DE461 C38 15 Apr 75 BFPS 1485 25 th Anniversary of the Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow. Flown from RAF Gibralta to RAF Finningley via Nice in a Dominie Mk1. Special signed by Air Marshal Sir R E W Harland. Air Officer Commanding in Chief Support Command.  RRP   £20 DE471 C45 C45 28 April 77 Introduction of the Hawk into the Royal Air Force Special Postmark. Commemorating the First Training Flight in a Hawker Siddeley Hawk at RAF Valley. Scarce Muscular Dystrophy Society variation signed by AVM Frederick Sowry and Ernest Folley AFC. Limited edition numbered 18 of just 50. RRP   £50 DE528 C87 23rd June 1981 BFPS 1748 Royal Star of Garter Home flown in Westland Whirlwind. Yellow flown cachet Flown from Headquarters British Forces Post Office to The Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond Upon Thames in Westland Whirlwind . Then carried by hand propelled Wheelchair from Richmond Park via Kingston, Leatherhead, South Holmwood, Capel, Kingsfold,Washington,Findon, Salvington to Worthing Town Hall. Where it was driven past Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent who took the salute from the members of the Royal Star and Garter Home. Personally Signed by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Spotswood GCB, CBE, DSO DFC and Charles Hankins The Black Watch ( Royal Highland Regiment ). Charlie who lost both legs, was wounded in the chest and blinded in one eye in action with the Black Watch in North Africa. He carried the covers in a wheelchair from London to Worthing!! RRP   £40 DE531 C90 12th Sept 1981 BFPS 1755 41st Anniv of the Battle of Britain.10th Anniv of the Society of Friends RAF Museum.Special Signed Marshal of the RAF Sir Dermot Boyle.President Society of Friends RAFM.Certified Copy No 401 of 982. RRP   £25 DE657 17 Dec 69 BFPS1105 London to Sydney Air Race. Black flown cachet from RAF Brize Norton in VC10 XV103 to Singapore and from there to Adelaide and then Sydney Australia in Hercules C.Mk.1 XC206. Scarce variety, one of only 250 flown by Red Arrows pilots Flt Lt Kingsley and Evans AFC who also flew in the race. RRP   £45 DE659 17 Dec 69 BFPS1105 London to Sydney Air Race. Flown by Flt Lt Kingsley from Gatwick to Sydney. Total flight time 77 hours! Signed by Kingsley. Emergency landing at Flores Island cachet.  RRP   £25 DE663 1st UK Aerial Post Hendon - Windsor  9 Sep 71 BFPS 1173 60th Anniversary of the First UK Aerial Post Hendon to Windsor Royal Hendon. Cover depicts Bleriot 11 Hendon 1911. Flown from RAF Hendon to Windsor Castle, landing on the East Lawn in the Home Park Private at 1100 hours on 9th September 1971. Carried in Bristol Sycamore MK XIV, of 32 Squadron RRP   £8 DE664 1st UK Aerial Post Hendon - Windsor 9 Sep 71 BFPS 1173 60th Anniversary of the First UK Aerial Post Hendon to Windsor Royal Hendon. Cover depicts Bleriot 11 Hendon 1911. Flown from RAF Hendon to Windsor Castle, landing on the East Lawn in the Home Park Private at 1100 hours on 9th September 1971. Carried in Bristol Sycamore MK XIV, of 32 Squadron. Special signed by  MRAF Sir John Slessor, Air Officer Commanding Coastal Command in 1943 and 1944. RRP   £25 DE665 1st UK Aerial Post Hendon - Windsor 9 Sep 71 BFPS 1173 60th Anniversary of the First UK Aerial Post Hendon to Windsor Royal Hendon. Cover depicts Bleriot 11 Hendon 1911. Flown from RAF Hendon to Windsor Castle, landing on the East Lawn in the Home Park Private at 1100 hours on 9th September 1971. Carried in Bristol Sycamore MK XIV, of 32 Squadron. Signed by the crew Flt Lt Darby and Flt Sgt Taylor. RRP   £12 DE708 15 10 74 Geneve Aeroport CDS Retour En Suisse. Cover depicts the Schaffhausen Salient in the Alps,RAFES badge and Swiss emblem. Signed by Fg Off P W Walker who was shot down over France,was a navigator of a Mosquito of 627 Sqn attacking Berlin RRP   £25 DE746 29 3 80 Bruxelles 1000 Brussel. 40th Anniversary of the Formation of the First Secret Army. Armee Secrete ( The Secret Army )Louvain. Cover depicts members of Armee Secrete meeting a Royal Air Force Lysander landing by moonlight in Belgium, RAFES badge and Armee Secrete logo. Signed by Lysander pilot D .M.S.Simpson OBE Flown in Lysander. RRP   £15 DE771 25 26 Aout 1984 Paris Special Postmark on French Resistance Stamp. Liberation of Paris . Black flown cachet flown from RAF Northolt to RAF Wildenrath in Pembroke then taken by road to Paris to join the 40th Anniversary Celebrations. Signed by French Resistance veteran Captain Lucien Duval. RRP   £20 DE776 25 26 Aout 1984 Paris Special Postmark on French Resistance Stamp. Liberation of Paris . Black flown cachet flown from RAF Northolt to RAF Wildenrath in Pembroke then taken by road to Paris to join the 40th Anniversary Celebrations. Signed by Georges d  Ouetremont His Military career began with National Service in the 2nd Chasseur a Cheval ( motorised ) regiment of the Belgian Army.He took part in the Blitzkrieg campaign of the 10th to the 28th May 1940 when his country was forced to surrender to the Germans At the beginning of 1942 he joined the escape line founded by Countess Andre de Jongh ( Dede ) which later become the Comete line. RRP   £45 DE778 40th Anniv of the Self Liberation of Buchenwald Signed POW 1 04 85 Weimar CDS ( East Germany ) 40th Anniversary of Liberation Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Cover depicts the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial and Liberation logo. Buchenwald Concentration Camp accommodated some 25,000 prisoners. Many of whom were exterminated and cremated by the Gestapo. In late 1944 2,000 prisoners . including 180 Allied Aircrew, were transported from Paris to Buchenwald and held there until the Luftwaffe obtained their release as POW's and moved them to Stalag Luft 3 at Zagen. Carried from Fresnes Prison Paris to Buchenwald Concentration camp,, Weimar by Sqn Ldr S A Booker MBE, former inmate No 78370, Retracing the journey he was forced to make on 14th to 18th August 1944. Then together with 1650 French Resistance Patriots and 76 follow members of the Royal Air Force captured by the Gestapo whilst evading capture in Northern France. pilot Signed. RRP   £10And many more.  All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
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All autographs and first day covers will come securely packaged with an envelope stiffener in a board-backed envelope. Larger photographs and prints are sent in a tough tube, and books and oversized/framed items will be packaged with bubble wrap and sent in a box.