Fiji – aircraft on stamps – Part III
Hello just showing one of the 4 stamps issued in 1968 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Kingsford Smith’s Pacific flight which landed in Suva. Only one because I see no relevance to the 1928 flight in the other three stamps Nice stamps but for other events.
The “Southern Cross” was a Fokker FVIIB-3m three-engined monoplane. Kingsford-Smith and his crew flew what was a record breaking flight across the Pacific from the USA to Australia with stops at Honolulu and Fiji. The aircraft landed on Albert Park cricket ground in Suva.
I could not possibly express in a few words the flight so I recommend a read of this from the Australia National Archives. You can feel you are flying with them. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46021267
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