Lot #69 1931 (June) Round The World Flight by the American Wiley Post & Australian navigator Harold Charles Gatty in Lockheed "Winnie Mae", cover with 'ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT/...' imprint at U/L and signed "Wiley Post" and "Harold Gatty",

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1931 (June) Round The World Flight by the American Wiley Post & Australian navigator Harold Charles Gatty in Lockheed "Winnie Mae", cover with 'ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT/...' imprint at U/L and signed "Wiley Post" and "Harold Gatty", US 2c tied by 'MINNEOLA NY' machine cancel plus 'BERLIN/24.6.31/...' transit cds & two different Russian Cyrillic cachets in violet. This successful circumnavigation broke the round-the-world record, then held by the Graf Zeppelin. In 1933, Post became the first pilot to complete a solo circumnavigation.