Azores 2014 Aircraft serving the Azores
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 4th September 2014
- four values, and two miniature sheets with further values
- Designed by: Francisco Galamba
- Printed by: Cartor, France
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 40mm x width 31m. Miniature sheet stamps format height 31mm x width 80mm
- Miniature sheet format height 95mm x width 125mm
- Perforations: 12.75 x 11.75, with cross cut-outs on vertical sides
- Notes: these stamps may be reckoned a 'national' Porguguese issue, as they are not inscribed Açores, but they were included in the 2014 Azores year booklet
Contents
Civil Aircraft serving the Azores in early days of air connections
Sheet stamps
0.42€ ~ Boeing 314 Clipper (seaplane) landing in Horta harbour, island of Faial, 1939
0.50€ ~ Douglas C-47 of SATA (inter-island airline), introduced on São Miguel - Santa Maria route 1964
0.72€ ~ Lockheed Constellation of Trans World Airlines at Santa Maria airport (c1950s: service commenced 1947)
0.80€ ~ Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Avro of SATA (introduced 1969)
Miniature sheets
Miniature sheet ~
1.00€ ~ three Boeing 314 Clippers of Pan American in Horta Harbour
Miniature sheet ~
1.70€ ~ Lockheed Super-Constellation of KLM at Santa Maria airport
