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RAF Signed Cover Collection 7 in Album With Slipcase. 30+ signed covers scarce varieties from AC second Co-ordinated series. Covers have a retail price of over £900 including DE1902 FF23 15 7 81 Roma Special Postmark 50th Anniversary of the First Crossing of the Atlantic by a Formation of Aircraft. Flown in British Airways Concorde G BOAA from Heathrow ( London ) to Kennedy ( New York ) on 6 Jan 1981. Signed General Luigi Questa. Pioneer Italian Aviator. Details & Black & White Photo Enclosed. Certified No 0449 of 1296. RRP £25 DE1905 FF25 17 11 1981 Paris 110th Anniversary of the1st regular carriage of mail and passengers by balloon Siege of Paris. Carried in Cameron R 15 Combination Helium hot air Balloon during its first test inflation in no 1 hangar at RAF Cardington on Friday 7th November 1980. Cover flown on the maiden flight of Cameron Viva 77 Hot Air Balloon on the 110th Anniversary of the launch of Balloons Daguerre & Nieppe from Paris during the seige of 1870 - 71 Special Signed. Leo Dickenson Balloonist. Leo Dickinson is one of the outstanding action sports filmmakers in the field today. RRP £12 DE1906 FF25 17 11 1981 Paris 110th Anniversary of the1st Regular Carriage of Mail and Passengers by Balloon - Siege of Paris. Cover flown on the maiden flight of Cameron Viva 77 Hot Air Balloon on the 110th Anniversary. Special signed by WWII Victoria Cross winner Ian Fraser VC. Numbered 74 of 1700. Nice early edition. RRP £45 DE1911 FF29 11 April 1981 BFPS 1734 70th Anniv of 1st Aeroplane Flight from London to Paris. Flown in Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball . Added Reflown cachet 75th Anniversary Flight Calais - Dover Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews Bleriot Replica G - BAAF Jodel G - ARRY. Added postmark Post Office Dover & Chambre of Commerce Calais. Signed by Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball and Ray Andrews. Reflown 1990 on 75th Anniversary of Rochford s first flight. Certified No 28 of just 100. RRP £55 DE1912 FF29 11 April 1981 BFPS 1734 70th Anniv of 1st Aeroplane Flight from London to Paris. Flown in Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball . Added Reflown cachet 75th Anniversary Flight Calais - Dover Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews Bleriot Replica G - BAAF Jodel G - ARRY. Added postmark Post Office Dover & Chambre of Commerce Calais. Signed by Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball and Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews Certified No 167 of 500 . RRP £25 DE1913 FF29 11 April 1981 BFPS 1734 70th Anniv of 1st Aeroplane Flight from London to Paris. Added Reflown cachet 75th Anniversary Flight Calais - Dover Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews Bleriot Replica G - BAAF Jodel G - ARRY. Added postmark Post Office Dover & Chambre of Commerce Calais. Signed by Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball and Bleriot replica pilot Ray Andrews. RRP £15 DE1914 FF29 70th Anniv of 1st Aeroplane Flight from London to Paris. Flown in Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball . Added Reflown cachet 75th Anniversary Flight Calais - Dover Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews Bleriot Replica G - BAAF Jodel G - ARRY. Added postmark Post Office Dover & Chambre of Commerce Calais. Signed by Beaver Pilot Captain J E Ball and Hon Patrick Lindsay & Ray Andrews RRP £20 DE1917 FF30 15th May 1981 40th Anniversary of the First Flight of a British Jet Aircraft. Flown aboard a Tornado on a navigational training exercise. Signed by Air Commodore E M Donaldson DSO AFC and Bar. Battle of Britain Pilot died 1982. RRP £45 DE1929 AC50 23 Apr 91 BFPS 2272 - 25th Anniv.of the VC1O into Military Service. Flown from Gulf. Signed by The Rt Hon Tom King MP, Secretary of state for defence. Numbered just 37 of 52. RRP £35 DE1930 AC51 27 July 91 BFPS 2292 Royal Tournament 1991 at Earls Court. Blue Flown Cachet Joint Service Operation Flypast 21 June 1991. Signed by Lieutenant General Sir John Learmont KCB CBE Colonel Commandant Army Air Corps and Major General R D Grist OBE Director Army Air Corps. details enclosed. RRP £15 DE1932 AC52 25 Jul 91 BFPS 2300 - Royal Review of the Royal Observer Corps. Signed by ACM Sir Graydon & AM Sir J Thomson Air Officer Commanding in Chief Support command. Numbered 235 of 250 certified. RRP £18 DE1933 AC52 25 Jul 91 BFPS 2300 - Royal Review of the Royal Observer Corps. Signed by 3 former Commandants. Air Commodore J H Greswell, CB CBE DSO DFC Commandant 1964 - 68. Air Vice Marshal J F G Howe CB CBE AFC RAF AVM Howe Commandant 1977 - 80 and Air Vice Marshal G P Black CB OBE AFC FBIM Commandant 1983 - 84. RRP £15 DE1935 21 Dec 91 BFPS 2302 - Formation of the Army Air Corps & 1st Air Landing Brigade. Signed by Sir N. Crookenden KCB DSO OBE DL . He volunteered for Airborne forces and became a parachutist. As a brigade major in 6th Airborne Division he took part in the D Day Assault and then commanded the 9th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment from July 1944 until 1947, including the Rhine Crossing in March 1945. RRP £50 DE1936 AC56 28 Oct 91 BFPS 2305 180th Anniversary of the Battle of Arroyo Dos Molinos.Special Postmark The Peninsular War 1811. Flown in Hercules XV 297 of No 30 Squadron over the site of Battle of Arroyo Dos Molinos. Signed by all the crew members. Numbered 78 of just 143. RRP £15 DE1937 AC56 28 Oct 91 BFPS 2305 180th Anniversary of the Battle of Arroyo Dos Molinos.Special Postmark The Peninsular War 1811. Flown in Hercules XV 297 of No 30 Squadron over the site of Battle of Arroyo Dos Molinos. Personally Signed by Major General A C Birtwistle Master of Signals. RRP £25 DE1938 AC57 25 May 92 BFPS 2323 - Crimean War.Flown Hercules of No 47 Sqn from RAF Lyneham to RAF Akrotiri. Signed by Lord Raglan, the great great grandson of Field Marshal Lord Raglan who commanded the British Forces in the Crimean War. RRP £20 DE1940 AC59a 3 April 92 BFPS2324 113th Anniversary of the Fort Ekowe Special Postmark. The Zulu War 1877 - 1879 The Heliograph. Picture Cachet of Establishing Heliograph Communications from Tulega to thebeleagured Fort Ekowe. Flown in Phanton. Signed by Earl Kitchener of Khartoum Great nephew of the first Earl. RRP £25 DE1941 AC60 14 6 92 Port Stanley FDI 10th Anniv. of Operation .Corporate Falklands lslands campaign .Flown in Tristar oof No 216 SQn from RAF Brize Norton to the Falklands staging through Ascension Island. Signed by Major General Sir Jeremy Moore OBE MC and Brigadier J S Chester OBE. RRP £50 DE1943 9 May BFPS 2326 - 50th Anniversary of the Glider Pilot Regiment.Flown in Gazelle AH1 XX381 of 2 Flight Army Air Corps from Netheravon. Signed by General Sir John Hackett GCB, CBE, DSO*, MC.when he took part in the disastrous parachute landing on Arnhem in Holland, where the Germans were waiting. On the day before the survivors of the 1st Airborne Division were pulled out of Arnhem, Hackett was severely injured internally by a shell splinter. RRP £40 And 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.