Mark the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), 
with this commemorative envelope. 

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Issued to recognize the Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF’'s 100th anniversary. Canada Post worked extensively with the RCAF to determine the design and photographic representation for the commemorative envelope.

Cancellation Site Borden ONStamp Designer SputnikIssue Date April 2, 2024Quantity Produced 10,000
Explanation: Last Image
  1. November Company, 3 RCR Battle Group disembarks a CH-147D Chinook at Kandahar Airfield after completing an air mobile operation, in December 2008. This image commemorates the first time a Canadian Chinook carried troops into combat operations in a theatre of war.
  2. Sergeant Pilot Omer Lévesque is helped into his parachute, July 1941. Lévesque was the first Commonwealth pilot to shoot down a German Focke-Wulf Fw-190.
  3. Captain Jason McGillis aboard an RCAF CH-148 Cyclone helicopter during Operation Reassurance, in October 2018.
  4. RCAF Lancaster. After the Second World War, the RCAF employed the Lancaster in a variety of roles including maritime patrol, Arctic patrol and aerial surveying.
  5. Air-to-air view of three CF-100 Canuck aircraft in formation. The CF-100 was the first jet fighter designed and built in Canada.
  6. William George Barker, VC, was the first acting director of the RCAF. This stamp was part of the Canadians in Flight series, issued March 27, 2019.
  7. A CH-124 Sea King helicopter, August 2014. The Sea King was capable of conducting maritime surface patrols, search and rescue and transport, among other tasks.
  8. An RCAF CC-130H Hercules aircraft, equipped with air-to-air refueling pods, is captured in flight, July 2017. Image courtesy of Derek Heyes.
  9. A group of Canadian fighter pilots in the 401 Canadian Fighter Squadron pose with a Spitfire, February 1942. Left to right: Flight Sergeant J. Whitham, Edmonton, Alberta; Flight Sergeant H. McDonald, Toronto, Ontario; Pilot Officer H.J.L. Merritt, Smithville, Ontario; at the controls, Pilot Officer G.F. Newton, Vancouver, British Columbia; and Sgt. C.S. De Nacrede, Calgary, Alberta.
  10. Flying Officer Marian Neily, an RCAF para-rescue nursing sister, March 1955. Flying Officer Neily was the first of the “Para-Belles” to jump and also the last to serve.
  11. CH-149 Cormorant helicopter at Summerside Airport, Slemon Park in Prince Edward Island during a boat camp exercise, June 2015.