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Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong (3D)
The Landsat-7 fusion image was published by Geocarto International Centre in 2009, and the 3D effect (ridged plastic) is realistic. You can see Chek Lap Kok Airport as the lighter area on the northern shore of Lantau Island. Grade: 1
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Orlando International Airport (Florida)
Mailed in 2011 with three different stamps and most of the postmark. Some of the typical USPS postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3
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airberlin Boeing 737-800
Card of a Boeing 737-800, and the caption has technical details. The registration number, D-ABKC, confuses airfleets dot net, and confuses us too. It may be that this aircraft is now with the Romanian airline Tarom. Or maybe not. Go see. Three of these cards are available. Two were mailed in 2011: one has two German stamps and partial postmark (Grade: 2, $5) and the other has three different stamps from Austria, also partial but illegible postmark (Grade: 3, $5). The third was mailed in 2013, with stamp, postmark, and Priority label (Grade: 1, $5).
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Finnair Boeing 757
There is no caption to give us any information about this aircraft, but airfleets dot net stepped up to help us. The registration number OH-LBR indicates this is a Boeing 757 – MSN 28167 that went into service in 1997 and is still with Finnair after all these years. Card mailed from Turku in 2011, with stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 2
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Lindbergh Field, San Diego (California)
A good, unused card, but not one of our favourite airports. Grade: 1
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Up up and away … (Germany)
Absolutely the perfect card for those of you specialising in aviation. Mailed in 2011, with stamp, full postmark, blue bilingual Mit Luftpost sticker … wonderful. To be honest, we don’t mind not selling this, unless you really want to own it. Grade: 1
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Enjoy the summer (Netherlands)
Not postally used, but with a brief inked message on the reverse. Grade: 3
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McCarran Airport, Las Vegas (Nevada, USA)
When have you ever seen an airport photo like this? Card mailed in 2011, and the 98-cent stamp is there. Grade: 2
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Nothing to be afraid of
Nothing to be afraid of, and nothing more to say. Two of these unused Laff Gram cards 191-C are available. Grades: 1
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Changi Airport (Singapore)
Unused, 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ postcard. This is a very, very good airport. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong International Airport viewed from Ngong Ping 360
It helps to know the context. Ngong Ping 360 is a complex containing a large seated outdoor Buddha, and one way to reach it is by these cable cars that have an annoying habit of stopping mid-ride while they sort out technical problems. But they get a spectacular airport view while they wait. Unused card measures 5-1/8″ x 7″. Grade: 1
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Plane flying over Kowloon City to old Kai Tak Airport (Hong Kong)
Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998, replaced by the magnificent Chek Lap Kok facility. CLK may be safer, but lacks the kind of views like this that passengers used to get. Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, and we have three of them. Grades: 1
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Airport Bourbon
This card was produced in France and mailed from The Netherlands in 2011, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Chek Lap Kok Airport (Hong Kong)
Three of these unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ cards are available. Grades: 1
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JAL Boeing 777-200 (JA8984)
To be specific, registration number JA 8984 is a Boeing 777-246, and delivered to JAL in April, 1997. The card, though, was mailed from Japan in 2011 with a nice airplane stamp, and postmark. Grade: 1
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Stansted Airport (England)
This 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailed in 2011, two stamps and very faint postmark, along with blue bilingual By Air Mail sticker affixed. Grade: 1
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Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96 (96010)
Unused Photo Fabrique card. Our trusted website says the aircraft with this number (expanded as RA-96010) is an Ilyushin Il-96-300, handed over to Aeroflot in May, 1994. Grade: 1
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S7 Airbus 319-114 (Russia)
Unused Photo Fabrique card. Grade: 2
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Flying Dutchman
It’s not really cheating to put this cover of a 1938 book by the famous aviator Anthony Fokker (but, yes, this is a postcard) into the “Airlines/Airports” category. Mailed from Ireland in 2011, three stamps, bilingual Aerphost sticker, and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Northwestern Ontario, Going Fishing (C-FMAT)
Mailed in 2011 with four different stamps and full postmark, this card measures 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″. With this aircraft registration number, C-FMAT, our Google search struck out. Grade: 2
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Beautiful Canadian Sunset
This 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailed, with stamp and blue bilingual Air Mail label affixed, but no legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Old Kai Tak Airport, multiple views (Hong Kong)
The airport closed in 1998. Unused, brilliant card, 5-1/8″ x 6-3/4″. Grade: 1
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Finnair
One of our favourite cards ever, and even with it right here next to us as we type this text, it is hard not to look at the facial expressions on the attendant and the little girl. The sender’s message (from Finland) is really the icing on the cake for this one. Mailed in 2011 with stamp and postmark and blue Priority label affixed. Grade: 1
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New Tokyo International Airport (Japan)
Also known as Narita, this airport is so far away from being new (and so far away from Tokyo) that the old Haneda facility is now starting to accept a broader range of international flights. It’s about time. Mailed in 2011 with two stamps, postmark, and trilingual blue Air Mail sticker affixed. Grade: 1
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Dusseldorf Airport (Germany)
Mailed in 2011, this card has stamp, postmark, and Priority label, as well as pasted address label, and abrasion on upper right front. Grade: 4
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Minsk-2 Airport (Belarus)
This 3-7/8″ x 7-7/8″ card has four stamps, partly legible postmark, and blue bilingual Prioritaire label affixed. Grade: 1
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The Kai Tak Airport runway (Hong Kong)
Though the airport closed in 1998, the card was mailed in 2011 with six stamps and three full (and specially hand-stamped) General Post Office postmarks. Grade: 1
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Eurocopter: Tiger helicopter (EADS)
Mailed from Germany in 2011, with two stamps and blurred postmark. Grade: 1
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Aircraft RF 32738
We weren’t able to dig up any information about the aircraft itself. The card is from Russia’s PostalShop, was mailed in 2011 and has two stamps and about half of a large postmark. Grade: 1
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Convair F-102 USAF
Great vintage card, “of an era”. Mailed from USA in 2012 with four different stamps, and USPS postal barcoding, but no postmark so the stamps are uncancelled .. Grade: 4
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Bangkok, Don Mueang International Airport (Thailand)
For several years now, this has primarily been a domestic or military airport. Two of these cards are available. They date from 2009, and are from the “Airports of Thailand” public company. They measure 4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″. And while they are clear and crisp on the front, they are very dirty on the reverse. Just so you know! Grades: 4
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JAL A300-600R (JA6377)
By now you know we enjoy doing research to learn the history of the aircraft on the cards. So also with this one: but no luck. Japan Airlines should be JL, not JA, and if we can see that number (not easy), neither JA6377 nor JL6377 appear in our two reliable sources. Sorry! This is an unused card, OK on the front but quite dirty on the reverse. Grade: 3
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JAL Boeing 747-400
Exotic photo on an unused card, slightly aging but still Grade: 1
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Air Portugal A319-100 (CS-TTA)
The card was mailed from Portugal in 2012 with stamp but no postmark. The aircraft is still active, first flight in November 1997 for TAP Air Portugal. Quite straightforward, this one. Because there’s no postmark, Grade: 4
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Fokker Super Universal G-CASK (Canada)
Unused card issued by the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa. Grade: 1
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CF-188 Hornet, National Air Force Museum of Canada
Mailed in 2012, this larger (5″ x 7″) card has an uncancelled C$1.80 dragon stamp and blue Air Mail label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 3
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Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok (Thailand)
Unused card of this futuristic but unwieldy airport that replaced the funky but friendly Don Muang (Grade: 1, $4). Also the same card but mailed in 2014 with two stamps and full postmark and address label (Grade: 3, $4).
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Lufthansa Airbus A 300
The card was mailed from Finland (not Germany) in 2011 or 2012, with stamp and Priority label and some extra stickers. The caption gives detailed aircraft information, and if we can possibly read the registration number as D-AIAA, the first flight date was November 1975 but in the late 1980s it went to Air Inter where it was subsequently scrapped, the registration number having been changed to F-BUAM. So there. Grade: 4
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Airplane
Printed in Finland, and mailed from there, with stickers and so on, this is about as generic as a card can get and it is hard to understand the appeal. But here it is. Grade: 4
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Talvi Tulee (Air Finland Holidays)
We put that headline into Google Translate, and it comes back as “Winter is coming … again after the summer,” which may lose something in the translation but which should be appealing in Finland in the winter. Card was mailed in 2011 with message pasted on, one large stamp, and blue Priority label. Grade: 4