airmail cover

Unknown artist

1973

paper, ink

Canadian Museum of History

A blue silhouette of a bi-wing airplane is printed on a white envelope with a red, white, and blue zigzag border. Text details the 50th anniversary of internal winter air mail flights in Newfoundland. (front/en devant) 1923 - 1973 50th Anniversary Internal Winter Air Mail Flights of Newfoundland 1923/Pilot Major F. Sidney Cotton/Aircraft Rolls-Royce Bi-wing Matinsyde Hawkes Bay to Forteau, Labrador via Flowers Cove 27 March 1923 (stamped bottom right corner/coin à droit au bas) Major R. K. Malott c/o The Mayor's Office Forteau, Labrador, Newfoundland (back/dos) Return in 3 days to Major R.K. Malott, 16 Harwick Crescent, Ottawa 6, Ontario Canada (black stamp on back/estampe noir au dos) FLOWERS COVE PM 30 IV 73 NFLD and HAWKES BAY PM IV 13 73 NFLD.