Welcome to WINGNET's eSale of Aviation Covers
Revised: 04/04/2004
The following First Flight Covers are Foreign Contract Air Mail Routes,
more frequently called FAM's. These inaugural covers were actually
flown on the official first flights. Most FAM first flight covers have an
official USPO/USPS cachet and many are backstamped documenting their actual arrival.
Photo Summary of Aviation Covers.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
C1000 First Flight, FAM 18-105 between NY, NY and
Barcelona, Spain on Nov 8, 1948.
4,179 covers carried by Pan Am,
backstamped.......................$5.00
C1001 First Flight, FAM 18-106f between Boston, MA
airfield and Barcelona, Spain on
Nov 8, 1948. 5,538 covers carried
by Pan Am, backstamped............$5.00
C1002 First Flight, FAM 18-120f between NY, NY airfield
and Basra, Iraq on Jan 20, 1949.
3,044 covers carried by Pan Am,
backstamped.......................$5.00