SA: 1926 MITTELHOLZER FLIGHT Switzerland - Cape: Registered cover franked various Swiss adhesives tied by Zurich cds 28 XI. Special "AFRIKAFLUG" flight cachet, Alexandria (Egypt) arrival cds 11 DE 26. Addressed to Alexandria, Egypt with annotation at top "Zurich - Naples - Athens - Alexandria." VF, fresh & attractive.
Swiss aviator Walter Mittelholzer undertook the 19000k journey between Zurich & Cape Town, this the first flight of a seaplane down Africa. Departure was 7?? December and the flight was arranged via Naples where the mail was in fact unloaded and thereafter conveyed onwards by ship. Mittelholzer continued the flight arriving in Cape Town February 21st 1927.
