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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2346

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Lanchow - Tihwa Section, Second and Third Trial Flight
1932 (10 Aug.) blue on white air mail envelope to Hami bearing Junk 5c. and Sun Yat Sen 4c. tied by Peiping c.d.s. with Hami (25.10) arrival at foot with the grey-blue Par Avion etiquette. Returned to sender, the reverse with Hami (29.11) despatch, and two different Peiping arrival (2.12). This was an experimental flight, so no airmail surcharge was applied. A good example of this ill-fated flight; the plane crashed shortly after take off from Lanchow on 18th August and the mail was recovered. A second plane was organised, leaving Lanchow on 26th August but had to make an emergency landing and was damaged. The mail was eventually sent to it's destination by land two months later. A rare example of this round flight. Starr 61. Photo

Note: the fouth trial flight left Lanchow on 21st November (no mail recorded), arriving in Tihwa on the 25th. It was this plane which made the reverse flight, the fifth trial flight

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