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Pan Am First Flight 1939 Transatlantic - Registered Vancouver Canada Dispatch
Pan Am First Flight 1939 Transatlantic - Registered Vancouver Canada Dispatch

Pan Am First Flight 1939 Transatlantic - Registered Vancouver Canada Dispatch

$ 9.24

Availability: 59 in stock
  • Event: First Flight
  • Quality: First Flight Cover
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Type: Aviation History
  • Certification: Uncertified
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Place of Origin: United States
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Grade: Ungraded
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Topic: Postal History
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada

    Description

    In early 1939 major obstacles to the establishment of trans-Atlantic mail / passenger service had faded. Serious design problems that held up the Boeing 314 development program had been resolved and delivery of new trans-oceanic flying boats had started.
    Operational rights negotiated with the Portuguese and the French had been successfully completed.
    Inauguration of the first trans-Atlantic route – New York [Port Washington] to Marseilles, France, via Horta, Azores Islands and Lisbon, Portugal – took place soon after Civil Aeronautics Board approval was received. Initially there was some expectation that this route might extend to England.
    This registered mail cover entered the mailstream in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on May 12, 1939.
    The cover arrived in New York on May 13, 1939 where it was dispatched on the May 20, 1939 inaugural Pan American flight to Marseilles, France.
    The cover was backstamped in Marseilles, France on May 22, 1939.