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TP01b SIGNED Harry Hawker COVER

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TP01b SIGNED Harry Hawker

Backstamps 1. CONCORDE PROJECT  CD-ORDINATOR 1.onoon new-inow
                      RECEIVED British airways 17 JUN 1979
           2. No 79 soulsonon 1=1.A.1=. BRAWDY 21 AUG 1979
          
Total Number Issued 8,990

TP1a Standard Cover
TP1b Cover flown in B747 G-BDXH as Standard Cover then reflown either in Hunter Mk Sa XK 149 piloted by Sqn Ldr Fl.C. Dean or in Hunter Mk 6  XG 160 piloted by Sqn Ldr Fi.L. Rowley. Each pilot has signed the appropriate Cover (2000, 1000 of each)

TP1c Cover flown in B747 G-BDXH, Hunter XK 141 and Hawk XX 279. It is signed by Sir Thomas Sopwith (1190 numbered and certified)

Notes
1. Harry Hawker was born in Moorabbin, Australia. On learning to fly he was awarded RAeC Aviators Certificate No 297 in September 1912. Hawker became a well-known personality in aviation circles being awarded a special £1000 gift for his part in the 1913 Daily Mail "Round Brltain" race. During the First World War he was a Test Pilot for Sopwith Aviation and was killed on 12 July 1921 making a practice flight in a Newport Goshawk.
2. Sir Thomas Sopwith is the subiect of a separate Cover issued in the Historic Aviator Series (HA5).

CONDITION: VERY GOOD FOR AGE

***** PLEASE DO LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER RAF COVERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE WITHIN THIS STORE**********

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