1s/3d on First Flight Cover – 1958 Shannon-New York (Aerlinte Éireann – Irish Air Lines).8d Position 4/3 Dot on right hand of angel.Set of 2 on First Day Cover (13th December 1954).6d Position 4/3 Re-entry in lower right corner.6d overprinted “Specimen.” in black ink.Set of 2 on First Flight Cover – 1949 Shannon-Basra, Iraq (Pan-American).1/- Azure, with 3-line overprint “ATLANTIC / AIR MAIL / AUGUST” in magenta.1/- Azure, with 4-line overprint “ATLANTIC / AIR MAIL / AUGUST / 1932” in magenta.Sadly, no records exist that either confirm or deny this. It has been suggested that the minimum economic amount for production should be in the 100s (probably 250-500) but the relative scarcity of these overprints suggests they might have been suppressed by the Irish Post Office at the time. Produced by some ‘philatelic’ source – private or commercial.Unused examples also exist and some are initialed on the reverse, “JAM”. Two varieties exist and both are rare – one with and one without the date (1932). Some of the mail he carried was franked with a special 1/- overprint. The flight took 30 hours and 15 minutes to complete. Mollison flew his monoplane “Hearts of Content / G-ABXY” on a pioneering flight from Portmarnock, Co Dublin to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Shannon Airport was so-called because planes landed on the relatively calm waters of the Shannon Estuary at Foynes, Co Limerick.It later switched to a new location at Collinstown Aerodrome, in north Co Dublin but not before two plans for an airport on Sandymount Strand in Dublin Bay were rejected.The Irish Air Force base at Baldonnel, in south Co Dublin was Ireland’s first commercial airport.Portmarnock Beach in North Co Dublin was a popular spot for early Irish aviation.In the early days of aviation, a new flight route was remarkable and airports were few, but planes from that era only needed a fairly level grass strip, or a beach, or, later on, a calm expanse of water to take off / land. it was the closest place in Europe to the Americas and was the scene of many pioneering Trans-Atlantic flights. Irish Airmail Stamps & First Flight Covers:įlown airmail ‘first flight’ covers and airmail stamps are very sought after worldwide but Ireland occupies a special place in the early days of flown mail, i.e.
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