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AIRMAIL: TRANSATLANTIC 1927 CARRIED ON "FOUR CONTINENTS" FLIGHT. Flown cover, 88 x 156 mm, postmarked May 20, 1927 at St. John's, Newfoundland, May 21, 1927, place indecipherable, and June 22, 1927 at Rome, image 1
AIRMAIL: TRANSATLANTIC 1927 CARRIED ON "FOUR CONTINENTS" FLIGHT. Flown cover, 88 x 156 mm, postmarked May 20, 1927 at St. John's, Newfoundland, May 21, 1927, place indecipherable, and June 22, 1927 at Rome, image 2
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AIRMAIL: TRANSATLANTIC 1927
CARRIED ON "FOUR CONTINENTS" FLIGHT.
Flown cover, 88 x 156 mm, postmarked May 20, 1927 at St. John's, Newfoundland, May 21, 1927, place indecipherable, and June 22, 1927 at Rome,

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AIRMAIL: TRANSATLANTIC 1927

CARRIED ON "FOUR CONTINENTS" FLIGHT.
Flown cover, 88 x 156 mm, postmarked May 20, 1927 at St. John's, Newfoundland, May 21, 1927, place indecipherable, and June 22, 1927 at Rome, cancelled Newfoundland airmail stamp.

Carried aboard the flying boat Santa Maria II of the second Transatlantic led of Francesco De Pinedo's "Four Continents" flight. Pinedo, his co-pilot and his mechanic began their flight on February 13, 1927 from Sardinia, flew to Bolama in Portuguese Guinea and eventually the Cape Verde Islands before flying to Natal in Brazil. After a tour through South and Central America, they toured the United States. A fire destroyed the original Santa Maria while in Arizona and a new plane, the Santa Maria II was built. It was this plane that eventually took off from Newfoundland with the present cover and eventually landed in Portugal, Spain and finally Ostia outside Rome.

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