Auction No. 44

Lot 507

First flights & commercial flights

Opening $200
Sold for $270

Italy 1934 (17 Aug) Rome-Dublin-New York Attempted Westward Crossing, Rome to New York (AAMC 1214) by Pond and Sabelli, crashed at Newport (Wales), with 19 August New Port (England)" transit cds alongside, v.f., autographed by Cesare Sabelli - a pilot in the 1920's and 1930's who sent the first radio transmission from an aircraft.

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Air Mail & Aviation
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