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NINETEEN 1977-79 50th Anniversary Lindbergh Spirit St. Louis Flights -16 SIGNED

$ 132.13

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You are purchasing the exact collection of items pictured.  These are not reprints - they are the real original deal.
All for one money, you get NINETEEN 1977-1979 50
th
Anniversary Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis Flights (all but one are US (the other is Mexico) 16 Are Autographed, including one (#5 below) autographed by Charles Lindbergh’s daughter.
Of the remaining 15 autographs, twelve are of Vernon Jobst, pilot of Spirit of St. Louis 2, which flew the US in 1977 and three or of Roy Cote, which flew the US in 1979.
I believe there is only one duplicate (#16), which really isn’t a duplicate because it has a different cancel
Following the arrangement of the photographs (which is not chronological order) you will get all of the following, which are mounted on simple thick 8 ½”x11” sheets within sheet protectors and using archival corners.
1.
May 20 1977 Art Craft First Day Cover with special cachet for the “Friends of the Nassau County Museum and Space Committee” with purple “Flown in in the “Spirit May 20-22 1977”
2.
July 29, 1977 Milwaukee, WI Commemorative Tour Stop
3.
July 16, 1977 Spirit of St. Louis Station Cancel “Flown on Board the “Spirit of St. Louis” – Signed by Verne Jobst, Pilot, Brad Young and Gerald W. Wellman
4.
July 21, 1977 Spirit of St. Louis Station, Wichita Kansas
5.
August 9 1977 Spirit of St. Louis Station, Little Falls, MN Autographed by Eva Lindberg Christie-Spaeth (
daughter of Mary LaFond and Charles August Lindbergh who was born in Little Falls in 1892).
6.
August 25, 1977 Boise, Idaho signed by pilot Verne Jobst
7.
September 1, 1978 Burlington, WI Certified as flown on the Western Canada Tour 9/1-9/24/78 (24 days) and signed by Verne Jobst, Pilot
8.
Sept 18, 1977 postmarked in Mexico.
Signed by Verne Jobst, Pilot.
This is the goodwill stop in Juarez, Mexico
9.
October 15, 1977 Jacksonville, Florida.
Certified as carried on the final leg of the 50
th
Anniversary tour, signed by Verne Jobst, Pilot
10.
Cut Bank, Montana, Sept 14, 1978 “Flown in EAA ‘Spirit of St. Louis’” signed by Verne Jobst
11.
Burlington, WI June 30, 1978 certified as “carried aboard the Spirit of St. Louis June 30 to July 12, 1978” Signed by Verne Jobst
12.
St. Paul, Minnesota October 28, 1979 signed by Verne Jobst
13.
October 19, 1977 Charlotte, NC handstamped “Flown in the Spirt of St. Louis” and signed by Verne Jobst
14.
October 23, 1977 Detroit, Michigan certified as
“Carried in the replica of the Spirit of St. Louis on its final leg of the 50
th
Anniversary tour.”
Signed by Verne Jobst, Pilot
15.
October 25, 1977 Baltimore, MD certified as “Carried….on the final leg of the 50
th
Anniversary tour.”
Signed Verne Jobst, Pilot
16.
October 25, 1977 Baltimore, MD (Different Cancel than above) certified as “Carried….on the final leg of the 50
th
Anniversary tour.”
Signed Verne Jobst, Pilot
17.
San Diego, California April 28, 1979 “Flown on board the First Flight “Spirit of St. Louis 3”
Signed by Ray Cote, Pilot
- With small copy of letter from San Diego Aero-Space Museum about the flight covers
18.
San Diego, California May 10, 1979 “Flown on board the Second Flight “Spirit of St. Louis 3”
Signed by Ray Cote, Pilot
19.
San Diego, California May 36, 1979 “Flown on board the Third Flight “Spirit of St. Louis 3”
Signed by Ray Cote, Pilot
I do not notice any damage.
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