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Aeroflot IL-62 (CCCP-86704)
Mailed from Ukraine (not yet Russia) in 2013, with three stamps and partial postmark. One of those stamps and a separate address label cover a part of the caption. Grade: 4
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Brasilia – DF – 1960-1985 25 Anos – airport and Constellation (Brazil)
A long caption in Portuguese only on the reverse of this unused, aging card. A person’s name and address in Belo Horizonte are rubber-stamped at the bottom of the address area. Grade: 4
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Brasilia – DF – Air view of the congress (Varig) (Brazil)
We select this as a highly representative entry from our Brasilia collection. Unused, some age foxing, issued by Varig, the airline company that essentially stopped operating in 2006. (Varig’s logo is on the reverse.) Grade: 2
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Coastal Highway
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To start this series, this card shows “the new highway on north Lantau (Island)”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Sophisticated equipment
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows “The Air Traffic Control Tower and Complex”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – New look Central
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows “Buildings taking shape on the Central Reclamation (of Victoria Harbour)”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – World’s newest airport
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows “The airport island is four times larger than (the old) Kai Tak airport”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Tunnel, bridge and viaduct construction
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows “The viaduct section of Route 3 passes through Kwai Chung”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Symbol of vitality
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows Kap Shui Mun Bridge in the foreground and the Tsing Ma Bridge in the background. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Wide-ranging development
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows the West Kowloon Reclamation. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Birth of a new town
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows the new town of Tung Chung, near the airport. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – High-speed comfort
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows that “Passengers will travel in comfort on the Airport Express”. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Largest road tunnel
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To end the series, this card shows the “Western Harbour Crossing is Hong Kong’s largest cross-harbour road tunnel” (there are three). Grade: 1
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South Asia Tsunami Disaster Relief (Hong Kong)
We’re not certain how the photo of Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport fits in with the plea for tsunami donations, but here it is. Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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Kitty Hawk, Wright Memorial (North Carolina, USA)
Unused, highly aged card with a 1960 date inked into the address area. Grade: 4
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Totem pole (Pan American Airlines) (Alaska)
Unused card issued by the airline. We continue to be awed by the number of tourists who wandered fields in their Sunday finest clothes. Grade: 1
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North American Airlines (N63396)
Unused card whose printed caption says “Written aboard one of North American Airlines Luxurious 4-Engine Skymasters”. The card shows cities and phone numbers where the airline had offices. What the card doesn’t show–and for the aircraft bearing this registration number N63396–is what we learned from one of our online sources: “The DC-4 was some 300 miles northeast of Adak (Alaska) when the crew reported flying 4500 feet on top in the clear. The flight was then cleared to the Adak range to maintain VFR on top and to call Adak approach control some 30 minutes before landing. At 17:15 AST the crew advised the company that it was cancelling IFR and proceeding VFR. This was the last radio contact with the flight. The DC-4 was found to have crashed on Sitkin Island at an elevation of 2100 feet (640 m).” This was on 24th September 1959, and all 16 persons on board perished. Grade: 1
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New York City, John F. Kennedy International Airport, gardens and fountains
Unused Dexter Press card DT-80123-B (NY-107) from 1964. Haven’t been there lately, but the area might not be so open now? Grade: 2
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Baby Tapir (Malaysia Airlines)
Unused card issued by Malaysia Airlines in conjunction with WWF. The airline’s logo is on the back. Some smudging over time. Grade: 2
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Cathay Pacific, interior
Once upon a time … on 18th October 1976, members of a 17-day “Orient Venture #20” group flew from Taipei to Hong Kong on CX551. They got this card. And so, much later, did we. Unused. Grade: 1
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Frankfurt Airport (Germany)
A shiny 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ card, mailed in 2014 with stamp and postmark. Abrasion on the right edge of the reverse. Grade: 3
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Maputo, airport (Mozambique)
Attributed to Minerva Central (Maputo), this card has no formal caption but some identifying notes pencilled on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Surfing at Waikiki, Northwest Orient Airlines
Unused, official Northwest Orient card PF 16-U-55. Grade: 1
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Twin Otter (Greenland)
Unused card G522 from Post Greenland. Grade: 1
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Bell 206 Jet Ranger (OY-HAU)
From a Danish online register, we found this: “(SE-HEK), OY-HAU, TF-HHD, crashed 14.9.1997 Kalfeyranfjoll at Hamarsfjorδur”. Unused card G496 from Post Greenland. Grade: 1
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Sikorsky S61N (OY-HAH) (Greenland)
The aircraft was built in 1968, and our online sources simply say that it was de-registered in 2000. Unused card G495 from Post Greenland. Grade: 1
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Air Greenland (OY-GRN)
OY-GRN is an Airbus A330-223 and–as of this typing anyway–still in active use, mostly between Copenhagen and Greenland. Unused card G323 from Post Greenland. Grade: 1
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RAF Tristar (Ascension Island)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Wireless Control Model Stunt Plane (DPR Korea)
Unused card, issued in 2016 with pre-printed large and colourful postage on the reverse. Bilingual Korean and English captions. Grade: 1
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Iran Air A300-600 (EP-IBB)
Again, a little online searching gives us information about EP-IBB (Airbus A300B4-605R), which was delivered to Iran Air in 1994 and may still be active. One source reports: “Incident 16. Jan 2010 at ARN aircraft veered off runway,” apparently with no injuries. Unused airline card, captioned in Farsi and English. Grade: 1
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Boston, Logan International Airport (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused card of an airport that “is one of the busiest in the world”. Grade: 1
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Chek Lap Kok Airport terminal (Hong Kong)
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the late 1990s (the airport opened in 1998). Grade: 1
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Air Seychelles, Flying the Creole Spirit
Unused. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Chicago O’Hare International Airport (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-12485-D, serrated edges, dated 1974. It’s probably true that O’Hare was the busiest airport then, but now it only ranks sixth by one measure (behind Atlanta and Beijing, among others), even though measuring “busiest airport” is as thankless a task as measuring “tallest building”. Grade: 1
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First Flight Lufthansa LH 6597 Salvador – Recife – Frankfurt
This is a specialty item about which we can say no more than what you see in the scan. Except: the reverse is blank but for a rubber-stamped “chop” mark with a sender’s German address. Grade: 2
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Changi Airport, Singapore – night view (Maximum Card)
This and the next few cards in this series are in Maximum Card style, but with Philatelic postmark, and the cards are not official Government issue. In this case, S.W. Singapore #S8214. Postmark dates this card as 1985. Unused, some aging. Grade: 1
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Changi International Airport, Singapore – car parks around the controlling tower (Maximum Card)
Continuing a series of cards in Maximum Card style, but with Philatelic postmark, and the cards are not official Government issue. In this case, S.W. Singapore #S8131. Postmark dates this card as 1982. Unused, some aging. Grade: 1
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Night Scene of Changi Airport – Singapore (Maximum Card)
We’re not certain how this series of cards came to be, but this one looks official — at least it also has pre-printed postage on the reverse, and no attribution of publisher. The card is in Maximum Card style, otherwise unused, and the faint postmark on the front reads “82” (as in 1982). Aging. Grade: 2
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Control Tower, Changi International Airport – Singapore (Maximum Card)
Another from this unusual series in Maximum Card style, an unofficial S.W. Singapore card S8119 with 1982 Philatelic postmark. Unused. Grade: 1
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Changi Airport, Singapore – panorama of the air traffic control tower (Maximum Card)
Another from this unusual series in Maximum Card style, an unofficial Associated Marketing Agency card A69 with 1985 Philatelic postmark. Unused, serrated edges. Grade: 1
