Spring Auction 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/27/2014
1931 Menu "Luncheon in Honor of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, Round-the-World-Flyers", hosted by the Mayor of New York, signed on reverse by six famous aviators - Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Harold Gatty, Bernt Balchen, Clarence Chamberlin & Casey Jones. A wonderful and extremely rare group. {This was the first flight around the world in a fixed-wing aircraft. Wiley Post was killed in a crash in August 1935. Harold Gatty, born in Tasmania, was a leading navigator, inventor and aviation pioneer, who founded Fiji Airways which later became Air Pacific}.The Menu is signed in Fountain pen.
This Luncheon was just hors after there Famous flight the night before and they did get a heroes welcome when they arrived in New York and the day of the Luncheon with the Mayor.
Harold Gatty, Post and Lindbergh Signed Menu hrs After their Famous Flight
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