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Thailand's National Aviation Day (1996)

 

Breguet Type III biplane

 

 Issue Name:

Thailand's National Aviation Day

 Thai Issue Name:

วันการบินแห่งชาติ

 Issue Date:

1996/2539-01-13

 Cause:

To commemorate Thailand's National Aviation Day

 Catalogue Number:

1996/5

 Denomination:

2 Baht

 Unused Value:

6 Baht

 Used Value:

4 Baht

 Thailex Collection:

Unused stamp

 Size:

27 x 45 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

2,000,000 pieces

 Printer:

Thai British Security Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand

 Subject:

On the left is a Breguet Type III biplane as used in the early days of Thai navigation, while on the right is a colourful circle with shades of red, yellow, green, and blue, with at its centre a purplish-blue globe, surrounded with a text in Thai, that reads ‘Wan Kahn Bin Haeng Chaht (วันการบินแห่งชาติ)’, i.e. ‘National Aviation Day’, as well as the English text ‘Thailand's National Aviation Day’. Across the circle, from the left bottom to the right top, a banner in the colours of the Thai national flag is stretched, which at the top has gradually less opacity until it is completely white in colour. At its end is a modern jet airplane, suggesting as if the white and the following colours of the Thai flag are the airplane's contrails.

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