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Halfsheet
vintage Iraqi Airways travel poster from the 1950s. The poster features an illustration of a Vickers Viking aircraft, registration YI-ABP, soaring over a map of the airline's routes across the Middle East.
Poster Details
Airline: Iraqi Airways (which was founded in 1945 as a department of the Iraqi State Railways).
Era: Circa 1950s, considered the airline's "golden era" of aviation.
Aircraft: A Vickers VC.1 Viking, which were added to the fleet in the late 1940s to operate regional routes. Illustrator: The artwork is attributed to "Wilson".
Publisher: Printed in the UK by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd., London. |
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