SPECIAL BALLOON COVERS/AIRSHIPS/ZEPPELINS

31 Mar 72 - Rugby - Interantional Heinekin Hot Air balloon Meeting. Black flown cachet G-AZIP Dante (Great Britain). Distance: 32 miles.

19 May 72 - Munster (Westf) - International Hot Air Balloon Competition Montgolfiade 72. Red flown cachet G-AZIP Dante (G.B.).

As above but flown in G-AZIP Dante on 20 May 72 by pilot Tom Sage. Signed by Tom Sage.

3 Jun 72 - Sherborne - 1st long distance hot air balloon race. Red cachet Great Riverdale Balloon Race and green flown on G-AZBH Serendipity (G.B.).

As above but blue Great Riverdale Balloon cachet. Red boxed cachet maiden flight cover and flown on G-AZVT Jules Verne (G.B.). Signed by the pilot Tom Sage.

11 Jul 72 - Westerham - Goodyear Air Ship Europa. Black flown cachet flown Biggin Hill on a circular tour of Kent. Signed by Courier Capt. T.B. Williams AFC. Won AFC. Flew Italian Airship 1918 Italy-England. Flown cover.

4 Dec 72 - Nettetal postmark on German stamp and 4 Dec 72 - FPO 79 - Farewell Visit of Deputy Commander RAF Germany A.V.M. R.L. Wade to RAF WIldenhall. Black flown cachet. In Hot Air Balloon Brandblase GAZCF. Balloonist: Eugen Wothe. Passenger: AVM R.L. Wade Wildenrath-Hinsbeck. Flight time: 31 mins. Distance: 23kms.

16 May 73 - Jersey - Aero Philatelic Club - 50th Anniversary. Green cachet carried by balloon Serendipity. 6 Jul 73 Derbyshire Peak District.

12 May 82 - Jersey postmark on 17½ Jersey Operation Drake stamp showing airship - the Great Glen Airship Expedition. 2 lined flown cachet. Flown from Jersey and carried aboard the Goodyear Airship Europa NZA.

23 Oct 82 - Hendon - BFPS 1790 - Day of Aerophilately postcard. Green flown cachet flown in hot air balloon Serendipity T00G-BZBH. Signed by the pilot Peter Sadler. Take off at 17.00 hours New Cublington Airfield; Landing at 17.26 hours Near Leighton Buzzard.

23 Apr 86 - Watford - First scheduled passenger airship service - Skyship 500-02 with inaugural flight 75p Cinderella stamp in red cachet. Carried on board Skyship 500-02. Official Commemorative Cover.

As above but signed by the pilot in command Capt. P. Buckley. 100 NUMBERED & ISSUED.

As above but signed by Wg.Cdr. Evenden member of the crew of His Majesty's Airship R-34 docked at Mineola Field Long Island USA on 6 Jul 1919 after the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air. 100 NUMBERED & ISSUED.

13 Oct 79 - Concord New Hampshire 03301. Tri-skate Collectors' Exhibition Station Zeppelin postmark. B/W photo of Zeppelin at Willkommen.