Aircraft of the islands
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Western Samoa has just begun its first internal air service—from Apia to Asau and has issued a set of four definitive stamps featuring aviation.
Papua-New Guinea at the same time has issued a set of six stamps showing aircraft which have played an important part in P-NG development. Samoa's stamps are: 3 sene. Sir Gordon Taylor's Bermuda flying boat, "Frigate Bird III", a regular visitor to Samoa in the 1950'5, now flying in French Polynesia; 7 sene, Polynesian Airlines Ltd's DC 3 at Apia; 30 sene. Air Samoa's Britten- Norman Islander; 20 sene, PanAm "Samoan Clipper", the four-engined flying boat which flew the first mails from the US to Samoa. The P-NG set, all 5 cents, DC 68, TAA, with Mt. Wilhelm in background; Boeing 727, TAA, with Mt!
Giluwe in the background; Electra, Ansett-ANA, with Mt. Yule in background; Fokker Friendship, Ansett-ANA, with Manam Island in background; 25 cents, DC 3, Qantas, with Matupi volcano in background; and 30 cents, Boeing 707, Qantas, with Hombrom's Bluff, near Port Moresby.