Lithuania

Lietuva

18th May 1934

Stamps issued in commemoration of the Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas.

Lituanica was a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker aeroplane flown from the United States across the Atlantic Ocean by pilots Darius and Girėnas in 1933. After successfully flying 6,411 km, it crashed, due to undetermined circumstances, 650 km from its destination, Kaunas, Lithuania. 

Catalogue Numbers: 

Michel LT 385-387
Stamp Number LT C79-C81
Yvert et Tellier LT PA84-PA86
Stanley Gibbons LT 389-391
AFA number LT 385-387