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Old 21st Oct 2012, 17:25
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Savoia
 
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First Royal Mail Helicopter Flight





The writing on this pleasant piece of memorabilia reads:

Flown in Piper Archer PA28, G-BTNH from Biggin Hill to Peterborough from where the Royal Mail was first flown in a helicopter. Then along the route taken by the postal helicopter on 1st June, 1948, to Norwich. Returned to Biggin Hill after landing at Old Buckingham.

Pilot: Peter, Lord of Abbots-Hay
Co-Pilot: Roy St.Clair Finch
Observer: Derek Hardiman

Sikorsky S51 G-AKCU c. 1948

G-AKCU was first registered to Westlands in 1947 and then sold to BEA in January of the following year.
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