First Consignment Leaves Shanghai:
Many First Flight Covers: Inaugural Lunch NOTHER chapter in the history. of commercial aviation opened on April 27 when the China National Aviation Corporation plane left at daybreak for Hongkong carrying the first consignment of mail to be carried by the Clipper ser se operated by Pan-American Airways across the Pacific to San Francisco.
The mail was placed on board the Hongkong Clipper at Hongkong and transferred to the China Clipper at Manila.
'A large number of special commemorative first flight covers were carried on the inaugural trip.
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Jai, who spoke in Chinese, said that
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