Benham first day Airmail definitives cover with stamps issued 27 March 2003.

Two stamps on the cover-Europe up to 40 grams and Worldwide up to 40 grams.

Postmarked:- Across the English Channel, Dover, Kent , 27 March 2003.

Pictorial picture of the White cliffs of Dover, the English Channel and a ship.

This covers features Louis Bleriot, the first man to cross the English Channel in a powered aeroplane on 25 July, 1909-5:49 a.m. Dover, Kent.

Portrait on the cover of Louis Bleriot with a representation of his Bleriot X1 monoplane in the background.

Information card enclosed:- By sea and By air, which is about how post used to be delivered. Information sheet about Brigadier David Santa-Olalla.


Benham guarantee and certification, issue limit of only 2500, this is cover 117.

A few were hand signed by David Santa-Olalla. He has signed this cover because he is deputy constable of Dover Castle which is near where Bleriot landed at Northfall Meadow.