Original Air Ministry (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) “Certificate of Competency and Licence to Fly Private Flying Machines”, dated 6 March 1936, and in the name of Peter Wooldridge Townsend (afterwards the famous thrice-decorated fighter ace and Battle of Britain Squadron C.O.), usual passport format, with light blue covers, 6pp., including two portrait photographs (and an expiry date of 5 March 1937, beyond which never renewed), excellent condition £200-300

For full details of the wartime career of Group Captain P. W. Townsend, C.V.O., D.S.O., D.F.C., see Dix Noonan Webb, catalogue of Orders, Decorations and Medals, 1 December 2004 (Lot 1302).