RAF Akrotiri

9 Aug 71 - BFPS 1178 - To commemorate 15 years operational service of 280 Signals Unit - 1p QE definitive stamp. Blue flown cachet. 2 backstamps.

As above but signed by OC 280 SU 4d Radio Telescope.

9 Oct 71 - BFPS 1195 - Akrotiri Fete with 4d Concorde stamp.

As above but 1/- RAF stamp and blue/black helicopter flight cachet with FPO 946 backstamp. Signed by pilot Fg off A.G.Buckley flown from RAF Akrotiri to RAF Episkopi in Wiirlwind MK 10 Helicopter. Backstamped F.P.O.946 9 Oc 71

Postmark as 843 but de Havilland 10 Pioneering Aircraft Cairo-Baghdad air mail first flight 23 Jun 21 216 Sqn. Heliopolis. The Desert Air Mail was operated by RAF between Jun 21 and Jan 27. 200 NUMBERED & ISSUED.

24 Sep 73 - Kibris Cyprus postmark - 50th Anniversary Vickers Vernon Cairo-Baghdad air mail - 45 Sqn. 70 Sqn. Hinaidi. The route was operated by 70 Sqn. alone from Sep 1923.