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Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5)
Albers Milling Company, Oakland, California, USA
Series Title: Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5
American Card Catalog Reference Number (unofficial): F270-5
Issued by: Albers Milling Company, A Division of Carnation Company
Issued with: Carnation Corn Flakes Breakfasts Cereal
Country: Oakland, California, USA
Number of Cards: 42
Card Numbering: Alphabetically
Type of Card: One in Every Box of Carnation Corn Flakes
Card Dimensions: 3.50 × 2.25 inches
Date of Issue: c.1952
Checklist: Download
Carnation's Airplane Trade Card Sets - Overview
During the past several years, there has been some confusion about who actually issued the Carnation Airplane Trade Cards sets (Albers or Carnation?), and the composition of Carnation's F270 series of Aircraft Recognition Cards sets.
The following envelope indicates that the Albers Milling Company was responsible for the Carnation Corn Flakes product line and thusly the issuer for Carnation's Aircraft Recognition Cards F270 series.
The interest in this set peaked circa 2015, when veteran non-sports airplane card collector Albert B. Al Kramer discovered the previously unknown red livery Douglas D558-2 Skyrocket card. At the time of its discovery, the red livery Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket card was thought to be an orphan card (i.e. a unique or test card not belonging to any known trade card set).
However, research during the first five months of 2016 conducted by veteran non-sports airplane trade card collectors Pete D'Luhosch of PJD Enterprises, and John Shupek of Skytamer Images, documented the existence of five distinct F270 Carnation Airplane Trade Card Sets, with five distinct checklists, and 211 individual cards, including the previously unknown red livery Douglas D558-2 Skyrocket and the North American T-28 Advanced Trainer (straight vertical stabilizer) cards.
Each of the five individual sets is easily distinguishable by the configuration of the card corners, the number of branding lines on the card's reverse, and the size of the 3-view image on the backside of the card. The key recognition points for each of the five sets is shown on the F270 Overview page.
Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5)
The Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5) is a small corner radius set similar to the Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 4 (F270-4) except the Republic F-84F Thunderjet/REAR VIEW card has been removed, and the North American T-28 Advanced Trainer folded vertical stabilizer card has been replaced with the North American T-28 Advanced Trainer straight vertical stabilizer card. The major change to this set is the size of the 3-view drawings on the back have been reduced to 87.35% the size of the previous Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 4 (F270-4). This set also serves as the 42-card template for the Country Peach Ice Cream Airplanes (F49), and the 3-Minute Oats Airplanes (F285) 42-card sets.
Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5) is most likely the scarcest of the five Carnation Corn Flakes Airplane Cord Sets. The rarest of the five Carnation Airplane Card Sets is the Airplane Flash Cards, Set 1 (F270-1), which is the only of the five sets that contains the rare red livery Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket card. Initially the Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5) was thought of just a variety of the Aircraft Recognition Cards (F270-4) set with 44 cards. It was not until early 2016, some 64 years after the sets were issued, that Lee Kalk and Pete D'Luhosch, noticed differences in the sizes of the 3-view drawings on the backs of several of the “same F270-4 cards.” It was subsequently realized that this Carnation Aircraft Recognition Cards group of 44-cards was in reality two different sets, Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 4 (F270-4) with 43-cards and Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5) with 42-cards.
Most likely when this variant of the Aircraft Recognition Cards was issued, collectors of that era were pretty much finished with their collecting of the F270 Carnation Airplane Trade Cards and simply tossed them in the round file cabinet, since they already had that two-lined card. The cards were probably just considered to be a sub-variant rather than a complete set of trade cards. Anyhow, hats off to Lee Kalk and Pete D'Luhosch for discovering the existence of Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 4 (F270-4) and Set 5 (F270-5).
The transition between Set 4 and Set 5 is certainly worthy of a quick look. The North American T-28 Advanced Trainer card was the Eureka card which proved the existence of the two different sets, Set 4 (F270-4) and Set 5 (F27-5). First of all, the two 3-view drawings were different, and secondly, the sizes of the three 3-view drawings were different, proving beyond a doubt that F270-1B was actually two sets, rather than one.
As a side note, there are only two cards that appear only once in all of the five of the Carnation Airplane Trade Card sets. The red livery Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket trade card only appears once in the Airplane Flash Cards, Set 1 (F270-1). The North American T-28 Advanced Trainer trade card with the standard vertical stabilizer only appears once in the Aircraft Recognition Cards, Set 5 (F270-5). Again, this was not known until early 2016.
Image-Guide
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Checklist
| 1952 Aircraft Recognition Cards, (F270-5)
Carnation Corn Flakes (Albers), 42-Cards, U.S.A. Checklist | |||
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| Unnd. | x | Card Title | |
| (1) | BELL 47-D HELICOPTER | ||
| (2) | BELL X-1 | ||
| (3) | BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS | ||
| (4) | BOEING B-47 | ||
| (5) | BOEING B-50 SUPERFORTRESS * | ||
| (6) | BOEING C-97A STRATOFREIGHTER | ||
| (7) | BOEING STRATOCRUISER | ||
| (8) | CHANCE VOUGHT F7U-1 CUTLASS * | ||
| (9) | CONVAIR B-36 BOMBER | ||
| (10) | CONVAIR-LINER | ||
| (11) | CONVAIR TURBOLINER | ||
| (12) | CONVAIR XB-46 BOMBER | ||
| (13) | CONVAIR XF-81 ESCORT FIGHTER * | ||
| (14) | CONVAIR XF-92 DELTA WING | ||
| (15) | DOUGLAS AD SKYRAIDER | ||
| (16) | DOUGLAS C-124 - GLOBEMASTER | ||
| (17) | DOUGLAS D-558 SKYSTREAK | ||
| (18) | DOUGLAS D-558-2 SKYROCKET | ||
| (19) | DOUGLAS DC-6A LIFTMASTER | ||
| (20) | DOUGLAS SUPER DC-3 | ||
| (21) | GRUMMAN ALBATROSS | ||
| (22) | GRUMMAN F9F-2 PANTHER | ||
| (23) | LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION | ||
| (24) | LOCKHEED CONSTITUTION | ||
| (25) | LOCKHEED F-90 PENETRATION FIGHTER | ||
| (26) | LOCKHEED F94-A ALL WEATHER INTERCEPTOR | ||
| (27) | LOCKHEED P2V NEPTUNE BOMBER | ||
| (28) | LOCKHEED T-33 SHOOTING STAR | ||
| (29) | LOCKHEED 404 TRANSPORT | ||
| (30) | MARTIN AM-1 MAULER | ||
| (31) | MARTIN CAROLINE MARS | ||
| (32) | MARTIN P4M-1 MERCATOR | ||
| (33) | MARTIN XB-51 | ||
| (34) | NORTH AMERICAN AJ-1 ATTACK BOMBER | ||
| (35) | NORTH AMERICAN B-45 TORNADO JET BOMBER | ||
| (36) | NORTH AMERICAN F-86 SABRE | ||
| (37) | NORTH AMERICAN T-28 ADVANCED TRAINER (standard tail) | ||
| (38) | NORTHROP F-89 SCORPION | ||
| (39) | NORTHROP X-4 | ||
| (40) | NORTHROP YRB-49 | ||
| (41) | REPUBLIC F-84F THUNDERJET/SIDE VIEW | ||
| (42) | RYAN NAVION 205 | ||
| Note 1: Numbers in parentheses (xx) indicate unnumbered cards presented in alphabetical order. | |||
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