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Braniff International, BAC111-203AE (N1544)
In the 1980s, Braniff’s last gasp for survival included painting their planes in such vivid colours, and as the card says, “You can fly with Braniff International planes seven times and never fly the same color airplane twice.” (The marketing people were hard at work.) N1544 has also been used by other aircraft but we found no incidents while it was with Braniff. Unused Dexter Press card DR-18055-C. Grade: 3

Code: 30200361
Price: $5.00
CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China, Boeing 707-3J6B (B-2404)
Manufactured and delivered in 1973, it has been de-registered. Such planes now would be one or another of the many airline companies in PR China. Unused specialty card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200362
Price: $4.00
Continental Airlines, Boeing 727 Trijet
Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200363
Price: $3.00
Continental DC-10
Some nostalgia for you, as the caption promotes “Luxurious redesigned First Class lounge/buffet, and Coach Pub on most mainland flights.” Well, those were the days, weren’t they? Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200364
Price: $3.00
CP Air, Douglas DC-10-10 (N1836U)
This aircraft served Canadian Pacific, CP Air, Delta (as N604DA), and United Airlines from first delivery in 1973 until it was scrapped in 1987. In the livery you see here, it was “Empress of EXPO ’86”. Unused specialty card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200365
Price: $3.00
Delta Airlines, Boeing 767
Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200366
Price: $2.00
Delta Airlines, Douglas DC-8 Fanjet
This unused card, probably issued in 1973, comes from the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200367
Price: $3.00
Delta Airlines, Boeing 727 (N412DA)
This tail number is now assigned to a British Aerospace BAE 125 series 800A aircraft, but when it was with Delta the first certification was issued in 1976 and registration was finally cancelled in 2000. Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200368
Price: $3.00
El Al, Boeing 707 (4X-ATA)
Mailed in 1967 in USA, with stamp and postmark on both sides. On the wing, the tail number looks like 4X-ATA. If so, here’s some background extracted from an internet search: the forward (nose) section of this 707 is in the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York. This was El Al’s first jet, delivered in May 1961, and it set two world records. On 15th June 1961 it flew 5760 miles non-stop, a new distance record for a scheduled commercial flight. Then it set a speed record for the JFK-TLV sector. The plane retired in 1984, having carried more than 2 million passengers more than 36 million miles. Many thanks to Russ for alerting us to this history. And the card? Grade: 4

Code: 30200369
Price: $4.00
Lufthansa, Boeing 707-330C (D-ABUA)
Before this tail number D-ABUA went to Condor (Thomas Cook) on a Boeing 767, it was with Lufthansa. No record of any special incidents. Unused specialty card. Grade: 3

Code: 30200370
Price: $2.00
North Central Airlines, DC-9-31
North Central later became Republic, itself now long gone. Unused specialty card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200371
Price: $3.00
Northwest Airlines Stratocruisers (N74601)
See this picture and it’s hard to believe the plane only carried 75 passengers. The story of the tail number (N74601) is much more interesting. It has been assigned to a variety of aircraft, including a helicopter; but when it was with Northwest Orient, on 5 August 1955, this Boeing 377-10-30 landed at Midway Airport in Chicago, didn’t stop, and crashed through a fence into a nearby street intersection. No fatalities. You can actually find a video news report of this incident on YouTube. The card was mailed in 1950, with stamp and full postmark from Spokane Air Mail Field. Some creasing, but all things considered, a “keeper” of a card with a story behind it. Grade: 3

Code: 30200372
Price: $8.00
Olympic Airways Boeing 707-384C (SX-DBA)
Olympic’s first of this style of aircraft went into service on 11th May 1966. No record for us of what happened to it after that. Unused specialty card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200373
Price: $3.00
Pan American Strato Clipper (N1025V)
A very nice unused card, issued by the airline and kindly showing the tail number very clearly. The technical name for this aircraft was Boeing B377-10-26, and N1025V was the original registration, but it had at least five more after that–winding up with the Israeli Air Force under the name “Anak” before being scrapped. Grade: 2

Code: 30200374
Price: $7.00
Pan American, Boeing 707-321B Jet Clipper
Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200375
Price: $4.00
Sunset at Waikiki, from Pan American World Airways (Hawaii)
We miss Pan Am. It was one of those brands that suggested stability, permanence, and reliability. Their postcards live on. This one, unused, still looks nice. Grade: 2

Code: 30200376
Price: $3.00
Pacific Southwest Airlines, BAe 146-200A (N352PS)
Like many others, this aircraft has had multiple registrations. It wound up with Air Comores (in Comoros) as D6-BJH, and is now recorded as “stored.” Waiting for a new life? Unused Mary Jayne card MJ598. Three are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30200377
Price: $2.00
Pacific Southwest Airlines, L-1011 (N10112)
Different sources suggest the only problem with this aircraft was that it was just too big for PSA. Right now, a plane built by Air Tractor Inc. has this number. But the plane in the photo went on to other owners on other continents: probably including Aero Peru, and Operation Blessing International Relief (as P4-MED). All its different numbers have been de-registered. Five unused Mary Jayne cards MJ592 are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30200378
Price: $2.00
Swissair, Boeing 747B (HB-IGA)
Swissair went under, but this 1971 aircraft stayed up in the air with Aerolineas Argentinas as LV-YSB and is now listed as “stored.” Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 2

Code: 30200379
Price: $3.00
United Airlines, DC-8 Jet Mainliner (N8028U)
The more research like this that we do, the more we notice little ironies and unexpected twists. This Douglas DC-8-21 was manufactured in 1960. The really bumpy ride started in 1978 when it went over to EgyptAir. Finally, it was broken up in 1980. We have two of these cards–issued by the airline–available. The one in the scan is unused with a small smudge on the reverse (Grade: 2, $4). The other was mailed in 1962. It has a stamp and full US postmark, but as it was used as a QSL ham radio card, it also has call letters of that station prominently on the front (Grade: 4, $2).

Code: 30200380
Price: $4.00
TWA Skyclub
In 1946, Selma wrote to Cousin Ethel on this card with stamp, Denver postmark, and note on the front. Selma had a lot to say, in true Seinfeld style, about nothing. Grade: 4

Code: 30200381
Price: $2.00
United Airlines, DC-7 (N6302C)
This aircraft didn’t leave much of an electronic trail. Now, the number N6302C is assigned to a newer and different plane. The card was mailed in 1956, with US stamp and Portland, Oregon, postmark. Postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 30200382
Price: $7.00
Gloucester Harbor fishing fleet, United Airlines menu
Not everyone shares our sense of humor, but the photo on this United Airlines menu is of a fishing fleet, and the caption on the reverse says “The fishing fleet … provide a tempting variety of delicious sea foods for United Mainliner menus.” And what’s on this menu? Beef! Potatoes! Peas! Cherry Chocolate Roll! But not a shred of seafood. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200383
Price: $7.00
Crater Lake, on United Airlines menu
Unused card with faint pink smudge on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 30200384
Price: $5.00
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, on United Airlines menu
“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end …” and as much as we would like to ramble on and on about what has happened to airline service, we won’t do that here. The card was mailed from Denver in 1954, with a 2-cent stamp and clear postmark. A bit of postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 30200385
Price: $6.00
Scenic Maroon Bells, on United Airlines menu (Aspen, Colorado, USA)
Mailed in 1958 with postmarks on front and back, and two stamps. Grade: 3

Code: 30200386
Price: $6.00
Columbia River Gorge, Crown Point, on United Airlines menu
Mailed in 1952, with 2-cent stamp and full Pasadena postmark. We looked at this menu, and thought … yes, that sounds good, but right down to the Dinner Mint, none of it is anywhere around here. Grade: 2

Code: 30200387
Price: $6.00
United Airlines, DC-6 Mainliner 300, youngsters to grandparents
Two of these cards are available, in identical condition: each mailed with one stamp and postmark (one in 1948, one in 1949), and minor postmark ink transfer on the front (Grades: 2).

Code: 30200388
Price: $5.00
United Airlines, DC-6 Mainliner 300, Mealtime aloft
The airline called this its “club-car” section. Not postally used, but with the notations you see on the scan. Grade: 4

Code: 30200389
Price: $3.00
United Airlines, DC-6 (N37559)
The folks in this photo were the lucky ones. Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1954 with stamp and Cleveland postmark, and ink transfer on the front. The other, from North Dakota, with stamp and in the same condition. But … on 1st November 1955, while en route from Denver to Portland (Oregon), with 44 souls on board, a dynamite bomb exploded in the no. 4 baggage compartment and the plane went down over Longmont, Colorado. Nobody survived. Grades: 3 ($9.44 each – it’s to do with Chinese numerology).

Code: 30200390
Price: $9.44
Winnipeg Air Terminal (Stevenson Field) (Canada)
Mailed in 1962 with stamp and full postmark, as well as another postmark on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 30200391
Price: $3.00
Douglas X-3 Stiletto
Not postally used, but with an inked notation in the message space. The caption gives a lot of information about this “Research Aircraft”. Grade: 4

Code: 30200392
Price: $2.00
Muskogee Division of Spartan School of Aeronautics (Oklahoma, USA)
With a rich history, this facility was once known as Hatbox Field and finally closed in 2000 after fatalities occurred. Linen card, mailed in 1948; the postmark is there but the stamp is not. Grade: 4

Code: 30200393
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Bay and Golden Gate Bridges
In November, 1941, one friend wrote to another on this linen card mailed in San Francisco with stamp and full postmark, whose injunction to “Buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps” looks ironic now considering what was to happen only two weeks later. Grade: 1

Code: 30200394
Price: $3.00
Experimental Mail Rocket
The picture of this Nazi-era event is much older than the USA-made card, which dates from 1978. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30200395
Price: $0.50
Avianova
A Samsung Touchnote card mailed with pre-printed postage from Guernsey. Grade: 1

Code: 30200397
Price: $0.50
Aeroflot
A Samsung Touchnote card mailed with pre-printed postage from Guernsey. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 30200398
Price: $0.50
Belgian Air Force
It would seem someone important is on board that aircraft. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. There’s a small postal abrasion that shows as a vertical line below the plane. Grade: 3

Code: 30200399
Price: $5.00
Martinair Holland (PH-MCA, PH-MBP)
Let’s start with the card, mailed from Holland in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Now, to the aircraft. We can make out the registration numbers on two of them. One, PH-MCA, is A310-203 and now flying with FedEx. The other, PH-MBP (DC-10-30CF), has a more diverse past. It has been leased out to seven or eight airlines, including (but not limited to) Garuda, Nigeria, Air Seychelles, and Alitalia, and now may be with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Grade: 2

Code: 30200400
Price: $5.00
Dragonair A330-300
Two of these unused cards are available, captioned with technical specifications in English and Chinese. As of October 2020, Dragonair — followed by Cathay Dragon — is history. But the cards remain! Grades: 1

Code: 30200402
Price: $7.00

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