1955: Manila Regional air navigation meeting
The First Pacific Regional Air Navigation (RAN) Meeting was held in the Congress Building in Manila, Philippines, from 27 October to 25 November 1955. It is to be noted that the Fourth Session of the Facilitation (FAL) Division was held at the same place immediately before the above meeting, from 10 to 24 October 1955. Seventeen Contracting States and four international organizations were represented at the RAN meeting.
Originally, the Facilitation of Air Transport meeting was scheduled from Tuesday 4 October 1955 and the RAN meeting from Tuesday 1 November. However, these dates were later changed respectively to: Monday 10 October and Thursday 27 October, so that both meetings would be consecutive. That may have created some confusion in the preparation of commemorative covers and has resulted in several and different cancel dates found on the covers, i.e. 5 October (i.e. before the actual opening of the Facilitation meeting), 20 October and 27 October (i.e. actual opening day of the RAN meeting).
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First Day Cover with cancel date: 5 October 1955 (before the actual opening of the Facilitation meeting). The cachet refers to both meetings.
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First Day Cover with cancel date: 5 October 1955 (before the actual opening of the Facilitation meeting). The cachet refers to the Facilitation of Air Transport meeting, although the slogan refers to both meetings.
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First Day Cover with cancel date: 20 October 1955. The cachet refers to the Facilitation of Air Transport meeting, although the slogan refers to both meetings.
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First Day Cover with cancel date: 27 October 1955 (i.e. actual opening day of the RAN meeting). The cachet refers to the Facilitation of Air Transport meeting, although the slogan refers to both meetings. |
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