Ascension 2013 Aircraft definitives
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 15th January 2013
- fifteen values
- Designed by: Robin Carter
- Printed by: BDT International Security Printing, Ireland, in sheets of 20
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 31mm x width 38mm
- Perforations: 13.6 x 13.6
Aircraft (definitives)
- all designs depict aircraft which have landed on / flown from Ascension Island
15p - Fairey Swordfish
Fairey Swordfish V4653 from HMS Archer was the first aircraft to land at Ascension’s Wideawake Airfield, on June 15, 1942
20p - North American B-25 Mitchell
25p - Lockheed C-130K Hercules
30p - Hawker Siddely Nimrod MR2
40p - BAe Sea Harrier FRS1
45p - Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
50p - Douglas DC-3 Dakota
65p - Avro Vulcan B2
90p - MacDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom
£1 - Eurofighter Typhoon
£2.50 - Lockheed C-121 Constellation with dorsal mounted radome as USAF Airborne Early Warning Aircraft
£5 - Shorts Belfast C1
