Hello,    again from  Gibraltar and while only a Viscount (but still a great aircraft in my humble view)   I thought it is interesting because of the Hunting Clan decal.

Hunting-Clan Air Transport was a wholly private, British  independent airline that was founded in the immediate post WW II period.

It began trading on 1 January 1946 as Hunting Air Travel Ltd. It was a subsidiary of the Hunting Group of companies, which had come from the Shipping industry and could trace its history back to the 19th century.

The newly formed airline’s first operating base was at Bovingdon airport   in souitheast England.  Its main activities were contract, scheduled and non-scheduled domestic and international air services that were initially operated with Dakota and Vickers Viking aircraft from the company’s Bovingdon base.

A change of name to Hunting Air Transport occurred in 1951. By that time, the airline had emerged as one of the healthiest and most securely financed independent airlines in Britain.

Hunting-Clan’s operations included all economy services to Eats, Central, Southern and west Africa, as well as similar operations to Gibraltar, thus the connection to this Gibraltar issue.

In October 1953, the firm’s name changed to Hunting-Clan Air Transport, as a result of an agreement between the Hunting Group and the Clan Line group of companies to invest £500,000 each in a new company named Hunting-Clan Air Holdings Ltd.

In 1960, Hunting-Clan Air Transport merged with the Airwork group to form British United Airways (BUA).

Enjoy  your stamps and aerophilately.  Michael  cddstamps.com