MACAU

MACAU / 澳門

75th Anniversary of the first Portugal-Macau flight.
Map with the flight path.
Minisheet issued on 19.04.1999.
Face value: 6 (3 + 3) Macanese pataca.
Design: Luiz Duran and Acácio Santos.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,250,000 copies.
Size: 137 x 104 mm.

Catalogs
- Afinsa-Mundifil No. BL67.
- Michel No. BL65.
- StampWorld No. 1008-1009.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS1095.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 

On April 2, 1924, the Portuguese aviators José Manuel Sarmento de Beires (1892-1974) and António Jacinto da Silva Brito Pais (1884-1934), left Vila Nova de Milfontes, at the mouth of the Mira river. After a very convulsive journey, they reached the outskirts of the Chinese city of Guangzhou on June 23, after traveling 16,380 kilometers with several stopovers and using two planes, the Pátria and the Pátria II. His feat, however, was silenced after the proclamation of Estado Novo in Portugal after the military coup of May 28, 1926, which both pilots opposed. On December 20, 1999, a few months after the issuance of these stamps, the Portuguese colony of Macao came under the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China.