Very nice. I save such covers from Texas.
David
Ottawa, Canada
i was going through my hoarding looking for something else and i found this older Post Office dedication cover at the bottom of the box. It will fit nicely into my U.S. non first day cover collection.
A question, or…Huh? Just what is an “airport dedication cover”? And why are some such covers dated after, sometimes years after, the opening of the airports concerned? I recently came across an airport dedication cover postmarked six years after the airport opened to commercial airline traffic as well as airmail service.
And in my collection I have another airport dedication cover dedicating an airport that as far as I know never existed as more than an occasionally used dirt runway for a handful of private pilots and perhaps emergency landings. My father, who became the founder of the American Kitefliers Association, got permission to fly kites there because it wasn’t being used by anyone for any purpose.
To me, he word “dedication” implies religious significance. Perhaps members of the clergy attend to bless the runway, the windsock, the beacon, etc. and pray for safe landings and departures. But after six years?
Bob
In one example I recall that I have, the airport was first opened for business, then several years later it was moved to a different site, and still later turned into a municipal airport. These at least are two reasons why an existing airport may have a new airport opening cover despite having already been in service.
The airport in question is in the same place it was in 1951, and still services scheduled commercial flights under the same name. There’s something here that doesn’t make a lot of sense, at least to me. The older I get, the less the world makes sense!
Bob
Pinecreek, Roseau County, Minnesota
I pick up these airport dedication covers from Minnesota when I can. Usually they are inexpensive. The Pinecreek post office closed in 1975.
re: Pinecreek Minnesota Airport Dedication Cover
Very nice. I save such covers from Texas.
David
Ottawa, Canada
re: Pinecreek Minnesota Airport Dedication Cover
i was going through my hoarding looking for something else and i found this older Post Office dedication cover at the bottom of the box. It will fit nicely into my U.S. non first day cover collection.
re: Pinecreek Minnesota Airport Dedication Cover
A question, or…Huh? Just what is an “airport dedication cover”? And why are some such covers dated after, sometimes years after, the opening of the airports concerned? I recently came across an airport dedication cover postmarked six years after the airport opened to commercial airline traffic as well as airmail service.
And in my collection I have another airport dedication cover dedicating an airport that as far as I know never existed as more than an occasionally used dirt runway for a handful of private pilots and perhaps emergency landings. My father, who became the founder of the American Kitefliers Association, got permission to fly kites there because it wasn’t being used by anyone for any purpose.
To me, he word “dedication” implies religious significance. Perhaps members of the clergy attend to bless the runway, the windsock, the beacon, etc. and pray for safe landings and departures. But after six years?
Bob
re: Pinecreek Minnesota Airport Dedication Cover
In one example I recall that I have, the airport was first opened for business, then several years later it was moved to a different site, and still later turned into a municipal airport. These at least are two reasons why an existing airport may have a new airport opening cover despite having already been in service.
re: Pinecreek Minnesota Airport Dedication Cover
The airport in question is in the same place it was in 1951, and still services scheduled commercial flights under the same name. There’s something here that doesn’t make a lot of sense, at least to me. The older I get, the less the world makes sense!
Bob