Air Mail cover 1926 (18 Dec.) London - Cairo - Khartoum - Kenya Experimental Flight envelope, carried by Air Commodore Weir to Cairo (signed and inscribed on reverse, he later lost his life in the R-101 Airship disaster), showing on front a good strike of the unframed "Carried by the Airline between Khartoum and Kisumu, Kenya Colony" h.s. in violet, signed by the pilot for the Khartoum - Kenya leg, Captain T.A. Gladstone; a violet oval cachet "H.E./THE GOVERNOR" applied on arrival and bearing Kenya and Uganda 20c. applied and cancelled (14.2) in Nairobi. Only about ten such covers are thought to exist. Photo
Air Mail cover 1926 (18 Dec.) London - Cairo - Khartoum - Kenya Experimental Flight envelope, carried by Air Commodore Weir to Cairo (signed and inscribed on reverse, he later lost his life in the R-101 Airship disaster), showing on front a good strike of the unframed "Carried by the Airline between Khartoum and Kisumu, Kenya Colony" h.s. in violet, signed by the pilot for the Khartoum - Kenya leg, Captain T.A. Gladstone; a violet oval cachet "H.E./THE GOVERNOR" applied on arrival and bearing Kenya and Uganda 20c. applied and cancelled (14.2) in Nairobi. Only about ten such covers are thought to exist. Photo
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