airmail flight cover: Pan American Airways, Boeing 314 “Dixie Clipper”, Clara Adams

Date:1939
Medium:Paper, ink
Credit Line: Gift of the Pan Am Association
Accession Number:2000.058.1276 a c
Dimensions:4 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (10.8 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:Aviation Archive
Category:Philately
Subcategory:Airmail Flight Cover
airline: Pan American Airways
aircraft: Boeing 314 Dixie Clipper
company: Boeing
Description

Airmail flight cover, carried by Clara Adams on the first around-the-world (circumglobal) passenger flight on the Pan American Airways “Dixie Clipper”; typed certificate in upper left corner indicating letter was carried on the transatlantic leg of the trip; signed by Clara Adams and W.J. Eck with note “Ticket No. 1”; postmarked June 30, 1939 in Lisbon with three Portuguese stamps; written on reverse in pencil "Captain R.O.D. Sullivan, Dixie Clipper, Pt Washington”; no backstamp. a. Envelope b & c. Insert; two identical typed unsigned letters from Clara Adams on Pan American Airways letterhead, New York City, "Clara Adams is thinking of you while soaring over land and sea on her world flight. The Inaugural Passenger Flight across the Atlantic in the Pan American Clipper "Dixie" was a wonderful start. If all goes well, I should be back in New York between July 14 and 20th."

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