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First Flights

1929

24 Aug: Mail Train

5 Sep: DD-AA

26 Dec: AA-DD-DJ

27 Dec: AA-DJ

29 Dec: AA-DD

29 Dec: DJ-DD

29 Dec: DJ-AA

(Navagation)

1929 First Flights: 5 September 1929 - Arrival of the Ethiopian Junker in Dire Daoua

Flown by Baron von Engel, the German Junker purchased by the Ethiopian Government arrived in Dire Daoua on September 5, 1929. Incoming mail carried by train from Djibouti was loaded on to the Junker and subsequently flown to Addis Ababa. Only mail from abroad was carried by the flight. All incoming mail was marked with the special cachet that was used on the commemorative covers created for the arrival of the first airplane in Addis Ababa on August 18, 1929.

23 August 1929 Cairo cancel. 5 September 1929 Addis Ababa cancel.