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Dayton, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, 1905 Wright Flyer III Replica (Ohio, USA)
So many proper nouns on the front and back of this card, mailed in 2021 with four different stamps and postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 30200747
Price: $3.00
KC-135 Stratotanker (USA)
Mailed in 2013, the front of this card is fine though the back has an address label pasted on. It also has an uncancelled round Global Forever stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 30200748
Price: $1.00
Lufthansa Boeing 747-200
Mailed from Portugal in 2021, though the card is probably 20 years older than that. Stamp and postmark are there, and orange postal barcoding. This is an official Lufthansa postcard, with many technical specifications in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 30200749
Price: $3.00
Lufthansa A 300
This official Lufthansa postcard has a raft of technical specifications in tiny print in the caption. Impressive! Mailed from Germany in 2021, with four stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30200750
Price: $4.00
Scandinavian Airlines System SDSTO 550
SAS postcards have often seemed on the “artistic” side, and this aging one is no different. It was mailed from Bergen, Norway, in 1960 with its stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30200751
Price: $7.00
Air Force One (USA)
Placed in a National Museum in 1998, this aircraft has significant stories attached to it. The card explains some of those, and is not postally used but has the sender’s message written on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30200752
Price: $1.00
American Airlines, multiple models
This unused card measures 4″ x 8″ and was issued by American Airlines. All six views are identified in the reverse caption. We did try very hard to read the registration number on aircraft #1 (a 707 Astrojet), and almost but not quite got there. For collectors of airplane postcards, this one does stand out. Grade: 1

Code: 30200753
Price: $11.00
Wright Brothers National Memorial (North Carolina, USA)
What would they think now? Unused aviation postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 30200754
Price: $1.00
Japan Air Lines, Kiku-no-Ma Lounge of DC-8 Jet Courier
Official card issued by JAL, unused. It has been quite awhile since air travel for ordinary people looked like this, but you know that, don’t you? Grade: 1

Code: 30200755
Price: $3.00
American Airlines DC-7 Flagship
Official card T151-7 from the airline, unused. Great condition. What can we say that other vendors haven’t said over and over? Well, there’s this: in the postage area, it’s printed “Use Air Mail”, which is a nice little irony. Grade: 1

Code: 30200756
Price: $4.00
Taipei, Songshan Airport (Taiwan)
Songshan Airport (TSA) is a regional airport and military airbase, covering 182 hectares. The civilian section has scheduled flights to domestic destinations in Taiwan and regional international destinations but serves only a small portion of the international flights for Taipei compared to the larger Taoyuan International Airport. Songshan is also the base of certain Republic of China Air Force units. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200757
Price: $4.00
Harlingen, Valley International Airport (Texas, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30200758
Price: $3.00
O’Hare Airport (Chicago, USA)
We’ve always been transfixed by the rainbow lights and mechanical voice following us through the underground moving walkways between terminals at O’Hare, though it’s been awhile now and all that may have changed. As we were living nearby when the whole facility was being built out of nothing, to see the entirety of it on this postcard is impressive to say the least. Mailed in 1985 with clear postmark and 14-cent stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 30200759
Price: $4.00
TWA Stratoliner
Only ten Stratoliners were built: three for Pan Am; five served with TWA; and a ninth Stratoliner was supplied to Howard Hughes. The prototype Boeing 307, NX 19901, crashed during a test flight. For its part, TWA put it into service on the transcontinental route on 8 July 1940, reducing travel time to 13 hrs. 40 min. This is an unused, official TWA card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200760
Price: $9.00
Finnair
Official Finnair card, unused, showing evolution of its fleet since 1923. Grade: 1

Code: 30200761
Price: $5.00
Trans World Airlines
We can only assume this 1967 unused postcard showing what appears to be an Economy Class menu, and highlighting “Great Destinations — New York”, is an official card from TWA. It has about a 1/8″ nick along the bottom right edge, and reference number DC-61/LIS / 997 3105, none of which shows up in Google. Grade: 2

Code: 30200762
Price: $3.00
Atlanta International Airport (Georgia, USA)
A nice example of airport postcards, mailed in 1984 with a 28-cent stamp and postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 30200763T
Price: $4.00
Sydney, Opera House (Australia)
A couple of distinctive features to this card, mailed in 1984: it was written on a Malaysian Airline System flight and thereafter mailed by MAS using a postage meter from Kuala Lumpur; and (of course) that the card was issued by the airline itself. We wonder whether any airline still lets this happen? Probably in First Class … Grade: 1

Code: 30200764T
Price: $4.00
Malaysian Airline System, B.737-200 series
Similar or identical to some of our other MAS cards, this one was written while inflight, and posted with a postage meter by the airline at Kuala Lumpur Airport in 1983. Ironically the meter advertises an MAS 747. A thumbtack hole goes through the sky. Grade: 4

Code: 30200765T
Price: $1.00
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia)
Captioned in English and Chinese, the facility shown on this unused card goes back several generations. Grade: 1

Code: 30200766T
Price: $16.00
Penang, Kek Lok Si Chinese Temple (Malaysia)
Sometime mid-century, Malaysian Airlines issued this (unused) card. A prominent airline logo appears on the upper left reverse, and an English caption on the bottom left reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 30200767T
Price: $5.00
Cathay Pacific (VR-HFO)
A great, unused, official CX postcard of its otherwise unidentified aircraft VR-HFO. Our own research shows this plane, a Lockheed 188A, was built in 1958, went to Cathay Pacific, then went to Braniff in the USA as N16816, and was later scrapped by 1981. Grade: 1

Code: 30200768T
Price: $11.00
B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner
Unused old card with a caption explaining about some technical specifications, and the manufacturer (de Havilland) — but not the series of crashes involving the Comet. Grade: 1

Code: 30200769T
Price: $7.00
Lydd, Ferryfield Airport (England)
London Ashford Airport is east of Lydd and south of Ashford in the district of Folkestone and Hythe, in Kent. Originally named Lydd Ferryfield, it is now known as London Ashford despite being 60 mi from London and actually closer to France, which is where this real-photo card was mailed in the late 1950s or early 1960s, we’re not certain. The stamp and indistinct postmark are there, and someone corrected the postal code. Grade: 3

Code: 30200770T
Price: $9.00
Madras, Mahabalipuram Shore Temple (India)
Let’s make this crystal clear up front: the postcard was published by Malaysian Airline System (MAS), with their logo, and was mailed using a postage meter from Subang Airport in Kuala Lumpur in 1984. It has never seen India. But like many other airlines, MAS featured its major destinations on postcards, and this was no exception. Grade: 1

Code: 30200771T
Price: $3.00
de Havilland “Dove” (G-AJOT)
The caption on this unused , aging real-photo card tells us this aircraft at the time was operated by Olley Air Service Ltd., in Croydon (U.K.). A little Googling leads to a later photo and this information: “ex-Shorts Brothers Dove 1 with Gatwick-based Sky Charters, which ceased operations in August 1965. G-AJOT was sold in July 1965 and became 6V-ABL in October 1968.” We know it then went to Air Senegal but have not tried to follow the trail after that. Significant foxing on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 30200772T
Price: $5.00
Detroit City Airport (Michigan, USA)
Mailed in 1945 with 1-cent stamp and full Detroit postmark, so this is an excellent representative of airport postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 30200773
Price: $5.00
In Flight with TWA
Promoting its newest Super-G Constellation, this unused card is all in English on the front but the reverse caption is in French. Very minor smudge on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 30200774
Price: $5.00
Varig’s New Super-G Constellation
Unused card captioned in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Some slight smudging on the reverse — it’s an old card. Grade: 2

Code: 30200775
Price: $5.00
Delta – C&S Airlines Golden Crown DC-7 (N4871C)
What we know is: the aircraft’s first flight was in 1954, but on 16 December 1961 it crash-landed at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, and though nobody was killed, the plane was damaged beyond repair. One online site then says “The wreckage was later used as a restaurant in Sterling, Illinois.” How’s that for recycling? Unused card, Grade: 1

Code: 30200776
Price: $5.00
Pittsburgh International Airport (Pennsylvania, USA)
An ideal, unused example of an airport postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 30200777
Price: $4.00
Elath, General View (Israel)
Elath was an ancient city mentioned in several places in the Hebrew Bible on the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. The name survived into the Roman period as Aela, adopted into Byzantine Greek as Aila and into Arabic as Aylah (the Arab settlement was built outside the ruins of the ancient city), later becoming Aqabat Aylah (“Aylah Ascent”), eventually shortened down to Aqaba. The modern Israeli town of Eilat, established in 1951, is named for the ancient city. We tell you this because the unused card (date unknown) calls itself Elath. Grade: 1

Code: 30200778
Price: $6.00
Korean Air Lines Boeing 747
This is not an official card from KAL, but comes from Aeroprint in Sweden. Unmailed, it has “… at Anchorage, AK” written on the reverse. Maybe Aeroprint reveals that, we don’t know. Grade: 3

Code: 30200779
Price: $1.00
Corpus Christi International Airport (Texas, USA)
They picked an unusual day to take this photo, for reasons we can explain directly to you if you’re curious or can’t figure it out for yourself. It’s an unused card, serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 30200780
Price: $3.00
QANTAS Boeing 707
It’s been awhile since we flew in one of these, but the unused postcard lives on. Grade: 1

Code: 30200781
Price: $4.00
Continental Airlines Boeing 727 Trijet
Unused card LM 6097 ADC 8035 from the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200782
Price: $4.00
B.O.A.C. Comet Jetliner – Coronation Souvenir (England)
This would be a fine card of a long-ago aircraft and airline, but what makes it more special is that the message area tells us “FLY BY B.O.A.C., Enjoy British Service at its Highest Level … This is a first day of issue Coronation Stamp Souvenir”. And so it is, clearly postmarked London on 3 June 1953, with three different stamps showing The Queen. And the card was directed not to a human, but to the International Monetary Fund in Washington. That seems a bit clinical, and how the card survived, we’ll never know. But — Grade: 1

Code: 30200783
Price: $14.00
Lufthansa Airbus A320-200
Lots of technical specifications on the reverse of this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200784
Price: $1.00
Lufthansa
The airline made a conscious decision not to identify the type of aircraft on this unused card, which seems like a wasted opportunity to us. Regardless, here it is. Grade: 1

Code: 30200785
Price: $1.00
Romanian Air Transport – Boeing 737-700
Unattributed, unused card with no further caption. Grade: 1

Code: 30200786
Price: $1.00

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