INDEX to the CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIST

- Newsletter of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society -



VOLUME III , NUMBER 1 [ February 1987 - Newsletter # 6 ]

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* Souvenir Booklets for CAPEX 87

Dick Malott / 500 CAS souvenir booklets being produced, CAS executive busy preparing for CAPEX activities

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* CAS Membership

Ken Johnson / total membership is 69

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* Patricia Airways Yellow Perf Stamp

Murray Heifetz / members asked to check their copies for details of the yellow perf stamp (SC18) with the FED script

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* Victoria International Airport Post Card

Bill Bartlett / cancelled post cards prepared, front shows the airport, red cachet on back depicts Brian Peck’s JN-4, attachment (1 page)

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* American Stamps on Soviet Stamps

Patrick Campbell / details of the stories ‘behind’ and Fleetster Type 17-A, attachment (3 pages)

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* Pan Am Study Group Formed

1 cvr / Robert Miller / brief account of Pan Am’s link with Canada , attachment (1 page)

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* Fokker-Carried Canadian Air Mail

Pat Sloan / request for information on mail carried by Fokker Universal and Fokker Super Universal aircraft during the 20s and 30s

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VOLUME III , NUMBER 2 [ October 1987 - Newsletter # 7 ]

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* Report on CAPEX 87

Dick Malott / several CAS aerophilatelic items including the CAS booklet sold well

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* Commemorative Booklets Available

1 cvr / Dick Malott / description of five booklets, Warplane Heritage Museum envelope

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* CAS Membership

Ken Johnson / total membership is 99

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* Yukon Airways and Exploration Co. Ltd.

Reginald Lyon / information wanted regarding aircraft, pilots, and flight details

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* History of Airmail in British Columbia

Jim Brown / information wanted regarding any aspect of B.C. aviation history

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* Book Review: Rocket Mail Flights of the World

by Dr. Max Kronstein / “profusely illustrated European, Indian & U.S. rocket flight history Mexican, Australian and Cuban flights”

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VOLUME IV , NUMBER 1 [ October 1988 - Newsletter # 8 ]

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* CAS Membership

Ken Johnson / total membership is 119

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* National Aviation Museum Official Opening: June 17, 1988

Dick Malott / official opening of the National Aviation Museum, aerogramme and postcard flown by Snowbirds at Moose Jaw and then recancelled at Rockcliffe

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* FISA Membership

Pat Sloan / CAS is now an official FISA member

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* PIPEX 89 Show

Keith Spencer / an exhibition will be held in Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame, the theme to be airmail - stressing the bush pilot influence

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* Ernest C. Foy Flight

E.M. Pierpoint / post cards commemorating the 7 August 1919 flight across the Rockies from Vancouver to Calgary

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* New System for Air Mail to Europe

Dick Malott / air mail to Europe from Montreal and Toronto will be trucked to New York - then flown to Brussels - then channelled into a courier system, problems for Canadian air mail collectors

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* Book Review: Glider Mail

by Simine Short - AAMS / “... all currently known instances of mail flown in motorless aircraft”

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