TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* President’s Report Chris Hargreaves / a short history of The Jack Knight 2

Air Log, first paragraph of the first page of the

November 1943 first issue, merged with the AAMS

in 1995, last issue published in March 2012

* Exhibition Results

5

- ORAPEX 2012 at Ottawa, Ontario:

(gold and CAS Best Airmail Award)

Neil Hunter Pan American Airways Atlantic Routes, 1942 (gold,

APS Best Airmail Award and AAPE Best Title Page)

- ROYAL 2012 at Edmonton, Alberta:

Sandy Freeman Development of Early Bolivian Air Service 1910-1945

Edwin Andrews The Inauguration of Union Airways Service Routes,

donated his philatelic library to the CAS, to be integrated

with the current sizeable CAS library
* Letters to the Editor Donald Holmes / covers and stamps related to Apollo XI 6 - 7

and the moon capsule recovery vessel U.S.S. Hornet /

Jørgen Jørgensen [president, Federation of European 8

Philatelic Associations] / a reaction against the dramatic

increase in the frame fee charged exhibitors at international

exhibitions, a chart of frame fees at exhibitions since 2010
Ken Sanford / a report on the Gaffa Challenge‒a special 8 – 9

competition for modern aerophilately, Perth Australia,

May 2012, a listing of the 18 entries and their awards
* Book and Resource News : “With the launch of the British Newspaper Archive, users 9

can search and browse through a staggering 65 million

articles from a range of regional UK newspapers”, www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
RPSC website redesign, larger text, improved handling of 9

details for upcoming stamp shows, www.rpsc.org

by Dieter Leder full colour, fully indexed, 300 illustrations, 300 pages

vermeil exhibit / 1 CL 6 cover, AMCN cover 3435

club, exhibitor in the thematic class, many of his exhibits

were airmail and pilot related
* 1912 First Attempted Air Mail Barry Countryman, Chris Hargreaves / a May 10 1912 article 16

in Canada – Newspaper article in the Winnipeg Tribune states, “A novel feature of the meet

found which should prove popular is the aerial post …”,

confirmation that the McGooey postcards were produced for

the first attempted air mail flight in Canada
* The 1923 Woodstock Cover Chris Hargreaves & Richard Allen, Don Lussky, Barry 17 - 21

Re-visited, and How to Deal Countryman, Gib Stephens, Derek Rance / a thorough

with New Discoveries of discussion of “the problem of bogus covers”, “how to decide

Unrecorded Covers if the Woodstock cover is an unrecorded pioneer cover?”,

“what criteria were used for listing covers in the past?”

and “what about bogus covers that are already listed?” /

2 covers, AMCN cover CL40-2702
* The Smoke and Mirrors of Derek Rance / the actual story of Klondike Airways starting 22 - 26

Klondike Airways with, “an article published in the Sept. 20 1928 issue of

G-CARM, Everett Wasson, T. G. Stevens, W. L. Phelps,

A. C. Roessler / 3 AMCN CL 45 covers
* Who Flew the October 1^st 1928 John Johnson / a large file of FAM 1 related items including 27 - 29

Montreal – Toronto Airmail? three letters confirm that the pilots were D. S. Bondurant and

O. C. S. Wallace of Canadian Airways Co. / AMCN covers

2847, 2848

identified by the cachets used on the salvaged mail, the cover

shown in the March 2012 The Canadian Aerophilatelist was

from the Elba crash

Cambodia to Canada item, addressed to David Shackleton in Vancouver

1VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 3 [ September 2012 - Journal # 92 ]

* Royal 2013 Royale, Winnipeg Chris Hargreaves / details about the CAS Symposium to 3

June 21-23, 2013 be held in conjunction with the annual RPSC convention,

80 frames of aerophilatelic exhibits planned - including

non-competitive exhibits in which “people can show

what they want, how they want”

Kevin O’Reilly elected a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada,

resides in Yellowknife NWT, “the recognized expert on the

philately of Northern Canada from Labrador to the Yukon”

(BNAPEX 2012 gold, CALTAPEX grand award, CAS best

airmail award)
Steve Johnson exhibit Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited

(BNAPEX 2012 single frame, vermeil)
Dick Malott awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for

work with the Organization of Military Museums of Canada

Awards for 2012 American Air Mail Society –

of Fame plaque at American Philatelic Society headquarters

Canada and the United States, given the George W. Angers

Memorial Award
Cheryl Ganz known for her tireless research on Zeppelin airships, Chief

Curator of Philately for the Smithsonian National Postal

Museum, given the AAMS Aerophilatelic Research Award

and the Earl and Fred Wellman Award

as editor of The Jack Knight Air Log

Stamps available from Air Canada, details of the aircraft pictured: the

Douglas DC-3, Vickers Vanguard, Boeing 747-100,

Airbus A-340-541 and Boeing 777-300 ER

journal available online the society website: www.astrospacestampsociety.com

a website listing free newspaper archives with information

of use to researchers
* FISA Congress 2013 details of the upcoming biannual Congress to be held at 8 WESTPEX
* Book Review: Canal Zone Ken Sanford, Chris Hargreaves / connections are explored, 9

and Panama Aerophilately and Ford trimotor Floyd Bennett, Miss Silvertown, Admiral Byrd,

Philately Associated with the S.S. City of New York, Caribbean Stamp Club, A.C. Roessler,

First Byrd Antarctic Expedition S.S. C.A. Larsen, A.C. Roessler’s Standard Historical

(BAE I) by Julius Grigore Jr. Souvenir Airmail Catalog

limits on how much exhibitors will pay in frame fees”

copies of journals in favour of digital copies

rating for pilot signature) would be preferable to the presently

used pricelist type of catalogue rating
Jim Graue, Chris Hargreaves / “ample reasons exist to declare

a cover bogus and de-list it but the fact a flight was cancelled

is not one of them”, Snake Falls, Red Lake, H.H. Phinney,

Doc Oaks, J.A. MacDougall, A.C. Roessler, William Brown

R.C. Cockburn, Western Canada Airways / CL40-2702
* In Memoriam – Jim Kraemer BNA Topics / the first Director of Canada’s National Postal 12

Museum, RPSC past president, BNAPS Order of the Beaver,

a listing of his collecting interests
* The Design of Canadian Jim Kraemer, Chris Hargreaves / the cachets used on 12 - 13

First Flight Cachets Canadian first flights covers, Herman Schwartz, Canadian

Bank Note Company, Indians and Inuit in the illustrations,

National Archives of Canada, Thomas Hillman, Cimon Morin

Heifetz – CAS member #14 collecting, research, exhibiting, judging and writing done by

Murray – awards received – positions held – OAT and AV2

covers – frustrations with thematic exhibiting – Flag Stamp of

Israel (Scott 15), a listing of his remaining collections, which

he has consigned to auction with Maresch / 3 covers

* Further Research on the Part 1-Review from the June 2010 Canadian Aerophilatelist: 18

Jack V. Elliot Air Service remaining questions about the essay are listed / CL6-2600

Semi-Official “Blue Essay”

Richard Lamb, Chris Hargreaves / Part 2-Additional 19 - 21 Information: details of the Berberich philatelic holdings,

conclusions are based in large part on the writer’s own

material and an envelope of material lent to the writer by Luke

Levy – there were about 100 copies of the essay produced for

                        the Jack V. Elliot Air Service company by a Hamilton shop

printed individually on paper strips – some copies were

accidentally sold by the company to Aurelius Berberich who

used them on covers – when the stamps were not accepted by

the postal authority, Elliot pasted the accepted stamps over the essays as he had received payment for essays and that covered

the cost of the correct stamps / 1 cover

Herschel Island cover take? by an air mail cover addressed to Herschel island, postmarked

and registered at Edmonton, 9 different backstamps including

New York, explanation of why there are Herschel Island NWT

and Herschel Island Yukon backstamps, Kenneth Molson,

Kathleen Shackleton, Walter Gilbert / 1 cover

a northern community, aircraft type? registered to whom?

when and where the photo was taken?
* Mystery Overprint an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the overprint 29

“L. & S. Post” found on the 1931 Newfoundland 15¢ air mail

stamp (dog team), Newfoundland Air Mails 1919 – 1939 by

C.H.C. Harmer published by the AAMS

1VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 4 [ December 2012 - Journal # 93 ]

* President’s Report : Chris Hargreaves / details of the CAS Symposium to be 2 - 3

Here comes the CAS held in conjunction with Royal 2013 Royale in Winnipeg

Symposium! June 21-23, 2013; non-competitive exhibits; schedule of

the CAS Symposium Program
* In Memoriam – Murray Heifetz Chris Hargreaves / well known researcher, international 4

exhibitor, FIP aerophilatelic judge, author of OAT and AV2

Canada; CAS member #14; second honorary life member

of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies
* Queen Elizabeth II Diamond presented to Denny May for his work in keeping aviation 5

Jubilee Medal history alive

by Charles L LaBlonde

Philatélie Appointment Aerophilately and Astrophilately Commission

to the United States flown by Commander Hugo Eckener,

October 12-15 1924, commissioned as U.S.S. Los Angeles /

1 Canada-addressed cover

Airways Montreal to New York air mail and passenger

service, chief pilot and division superintendent /

AMCN 2849, 2851, FAM #1
* 1928: Christmas Greetings: 2012 Gord Mallett / a 1928 Special Prairie Flights cover that 9

made its Christmas Greetings trip from Saskatchewan to

an Alberta town entirely by rail / AMCN 2853g
* Double Flown Covers Charles Flynn, Denny May / covers by Charles Winchell 10 - 11

and others, created either “just for fun” without aerophilatelic

significance or to record different stages of a particular flight

series / AMCN 2953f, 2945b, 2967o, 3011’l’, 3813, CAM 30

Schwartz of the Canadian Bank Note Company, highlights

in the flying career of Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, aircraft

Polar Star, AMCN 3509a, 3513a
* Was It Yesterday? – Or Mike Shand / a flight from Floyd Bennett Field to London 16

Seventy-five Years Ago? by Dick Merrill to attend the Coronation of King George VI,

navigator Jack Lambie, John Heinmuller, Musgrave Harbour

Newfoundland, Lockheed Electra / 1 cover

enlarged on arrival; duplicate copies could be made

in 1942 Portugal of the flying boat “Clare” (G-AFCZ) a Short S30

Empire flying boat; twenty kilos of airgraph film on board

containing reproductions of approximately 55,000 letters

were lost but the letters were printed from duplicate

microrfilms

* Censorship of Philatelic Janet Bygate, Yorkshire Philatelic Association / at outbreak 20 - 21

Exports in WWII of war in 1939 up to 1953, stamps for export in the United

Kingdom were sent through the Central Clearing House of

the British Philatelic Association, import and export control

was operated under a committee of 12 members / 1 cover

United Kingdom’s import and export WW II control /

2 covers
* 1958 – Fort Churchill Don Fraser / two rocket mail labels with identical designs 22

“Rocket Mail” but with different colours

months 1958, Fort Churchill Manitoba, 20 pieces of mail

aboard the first Rocket Aerobee-Hi No. NN3.11F, none of

the envelopes from the fired rockets have been recovered

World Tour de Havilland Canada demonstration flight of its new

Dash 8 for Air Zimbabwe / 1 Dash 8 aircraft post card
* 2004 – a Welsh/English Duff Malkin / bilingual Welsh/English aerogrammes issued 25

aerogramme since 1993 by Royal Mail either in regular, commemorative

or Christmas form / 1 aerogramme
* Christmas Greetings from a Christmas card sent by Finnish FIP judge and exhibitor 26

Dick Malott Stigolev Laurent / 1 Christmas card

your editor (Chris the June 3^rd 1912 Charles F. Walsh flight in a Curtiss Pusher

Hargreaves) from the Kingston Fair Grounds /1 commemorative card
* Follow Up: Mystery David Crotty, Ian Macdonald, Denny May, Peter Wood / 27

Postcard – CF-EKL an Avro Anson V aircraft, 5 Air Observation School,

Kashower Air Service, Associated Airways, Peace River

Northern Airlines, Eco Exploration Co., Riverton Airways

of Aviation during the Golden Years of aviation between the two world

wars.”, www.goldenyears.ukf.net/home
* Information Wanted : Brian Asquith / Was the Major Barker D.S.O. M.C addressee 28 - 29 on a May 7 1920 Chinese experimental pioneer flight cover

the same person as Canadian war hero Barker ? / 1 cover

Sheldon Benner, Chris Hargreaves / about a photo from the

City of Toronto archives showing two pilots in front of their

open cockpit two-seater plane, T. Eaton Co parcels about to

be loaded but claimed to be from 1918 / 1 photograph
Jim Miller / regarding postcards postmarked Winnipeg 31

Feb 25 1933 addressed to George Fawkes in Vancouver

and containing a typed cachet noting the visit to Winnipeg

of famous explorer Bernt Balchen / 1 postcard

1VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 1 [ March 2013 - Journal # 94 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* Editor’s Report Chris Hargreaves / announcement that Ken Sanford is the 7 recipient of THE CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIST 2013

EDITOR’S AWARD “in appreciation of his contributions

to The Canadian Aerophilatelist, the CAS, the AAMS and

to aerophilately in general.” Ken organized the founding

meeting of the CAS during CANADA 84 in Montreal.

at Royal 2013 Royale held in conjunction with Royal 2013 Royale in Winnipeg

June 21-23, the non-competitive exhibits to be discussed

in a forum held at the frames Saturday morning

Mike Shand elected Patron of the Air Mail Society of New Zealand, 9

“longtime collector and exhibitor of New Zealand airmails

and author of many articles … editor of current edition of

the New Zealand Airmail Catalogue”, CAS member #4
Doug Lingard the ORAPEX 2013 honoree, has served on the ORAPEX

committee for 35 years, will be honoured in a show cover

with built-in camera [Model 44302-a], www.celestron.com

by J.C. ter Welle after WW I up to the mid 1950s, hundreds of cancellations

shown alphabetically by country
* The Global Philatelic Library The International Exhibitor Newsletter / a compilation of the 12

world’s philatelic research, www.globalphilateliclibrary.org

Newsletter e-publication particularly aimed at Canadian exhibitors who

have won vermeil or gold RPSC medals, useful for current

Canadian FIP and FIAF qualified exhibitors

enter their 5-frame exhibits in the FIP World Exhibition

to be held in New York City in 2016
* Canada United States FIP Jim Taylor / an explanation of the levies to be charged in 14

Exhibition Fees addition to the usual frame fees, Canadian FIP and FIAP

entries are not subject to US APS extra fees
* In Memoriam: Malcolm Ellis Brian Wolfenden / a member of CAS since 1985, a stamp 15

dealer who advertised in Canadian Stamp News

Hargreaves / a well-known philatelist, stamp dealer,

member of numerous study groups, Fellow of the RPSC -

provided an account of the “blue” semi-official stamp of

Jack V. Elliot Air Service in our September 2012 journal
* What Goes Around Denny May / a picture postcard he received from a collector in 16

Comes Around England, originally mailed by Denny’s mother, shows departure

from the Ft McMurray snye of planes on the first official air mail

flight to the Arctic, Wop May’s plane identified in the photo /

1 postcard, AMCN 2967
* 1933 – More on the Bernt Hal Vogel, Jim Miller / two cards “commemorating the flights of 17

Balchen Postcards Bernt Balchen, famous Polar flyer … on the return trip of his test

flight in the Lincoln Ellsworth trans-Atlantic flight plane from

Hasbrouck Heights to Canada & return” / 2 postcards

Flights by Dick Merrill of the Anglo-American Goodwill Coronation Flight made by

Merrill in May 1937, return flight made from the beach at

Southport, Floyd Bennett Field, Lockheed Electra / 2 covers

Morrow-Tait, First Thursday’s Child and her later flight to complete the trip aboard

Round-the-World Flight Vultee Valiant Next Thursday’s Child, from Croydon England

by a Woman Pilot

Churchill “Rocket Mail” known to exist, a website given with a history of the flights

by Vittorio Zanoncelli and cancellation of first flight covers issued by CPA on the

inauguration of their direct flights to Athens from Toronto and

Montreal / AMCN covers 6817, 6817 b

Toronto – July 5, 1970 from the crash of DC-8 flight 612, information requested on the

measurements of cachets known to members / AMCN 700705
* Cataloging the Air Canada Mike Street, Ron Lafreniere, Al Wingate and Bret Evans of the 28 - 30

75^th Anniversary Stamps? Canadian Stamp News / comments and questions regarding the

status and cataloging of various issues of Picture Postage stamps

1VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 2 [ June 2013 - Journal # 95 ]