Auction No. 44
Lot 567
First flights & commercial flights
Haiti 1930, First Flight Cover ST LUCIA Air 1930 *NYRBA* Premier Vol Cachet RARE EP515 First Flight airmail cover from Port Au Prince Haiti to Saint Johns antigua Via NYRBA Airways . Postmarked in March 7, 1930 .
this route - a United States line the NewYork - Rio - Buenos Aires Line, or NEBRA generally referred to as NYBRA. was later merged into the Pan American Airways, Inc.Shortly after midnight, February 25, 1930, the first NYRBA plane arrived at Port-au-Prince northbound, where it had been expected at noon Sunday the 23rd.On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the first northbound NYRBA mail left Haiti for Santiago de Cuba, Camaguey, Havana and the United States.The first southbound plane of the NYRBA Line departed from Miami as well as Haiti on March 7. lncidently this plane had previously been christened the "HAITI." Covers were dispatchedto all points with the usual Port-au-Prince machine cancellation.