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- 1957 - 2008 (Creation)
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Gibbes Sepik Airways was founded by Bobby Gibbes in 1948 using Junkers and Auster aircraft. Includes a. Health certificate, Rangoon Airport, Mingaladon, Burma to certify that aircraft VH BUV was free from infectious diseases, 19 January 1957, b. Page from a journey log book, dated January 1957 for a flight from Karachi to Rangoon with crew members Captain Walker, Co-Pilot Green, Flight Engineer Raasch, R/O Halle, c. Page from a journey log book for VH-BUV, Gibbes Sepik Airways, Territory of New Guinea, 2 August 1952 - 5 August 1952, d. Health certificate and page from a log book, February 1957, for a flight from Rangoon to Zamoange with crew members Walker, Green, Raasch and Halle. Includes a collection of photographs taken by Paul Raasch marked as 'Chapter 22' : Three B&W photographs, 18.5cm x 24cm of junker VH-BUV under repair in the Goroka Hangar, Collection of five B&W photographs approximately 7cm x 10cm of BUW enroute to Goroka ; B&W photograph, 8.5cm x 8.5cm of BUV in Sweden preparing for flight to PNG ; B&W photograph, 6.5cm x 9.5cm, of Paul Raasch preparing for flight from Stockholm to PNG, Christmas 1958, Sepia photograph, 7cm x 10cm of JU52 - GSA, of PATAIR engine repairs at Mendi, One bawd photograph, 11.5cm x 19cm of Paul Raasch at Mendi making emergency repairs on GSA JU52, Newspaper clipping 'Immer noch rustig: alte, Tante Ju' from Hamburger Abendblatt, 15 January 1957.