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Aviation Dollar - Gander International
| Issuer | Chamber of Commerce, Town of Gander |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Composition | Nickel plated steel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a detailed profile view of a de Havilland Fox Moth biplane in flight facing left, identified by the inscription FOX MOTH above the aircraft and SERIES VII in the upper field. Below the aircraft, the legends VALUE $1.00 EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 1988 appear in the lower central field. The outer legend reads AVIATION DOLLAR along the upper arc and FIFTY YEARS OF FLIGHT along the lower arc, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Gander's Chamber of Commerce issued this trade dollar during the town's peak years as a transatlantic refueling hub — a role that defined the community from the late 1930s onward. Before jet aircraft extended their range sufficiently to bypass Newfoundland entirely, virtually every commercial flight between North America and Europe touched down at Gander International. The airport effectively built the town.
By 1983, that traffic had been declining for nearly two decades, and issues like this one were as much civic assertion as commerce.