Kirbert's Airport Letterboxes


These are letterboxes that have been placed within walking distance of General Aviation airports so that letterboxers can hunt them by Cessna.  All boxes can be found by land as well.  Some of these boxes were planted by Kirbert, but most were planted by others using a Kirbert stamp.

You can find these boxes by logging on to AtlasQuest.com and conducting a search for traditional letterboxes using the keyword "airport".  This will pull up a select few that don't contain Kirbert stamps -- people have been known to plant their own stamps at airports -- but these may still be useful in planning your flying trip.  If you really want to search for Kirbert stamps only, just enter "Kirbert" in the Carver field.

Remember that, when stamping with an image of an aircraft, you don't necessarily have to stamp with any particular orientation.  You can tilt the stamp one way so the plane looks like it's climbing, or the other way so it looks like it's diving.  You can make it fly upside-down if you wish.  Some fixed-gear aircraft look like they're flying when stamped level, but look like they're sitting on the tarmac when stamped slightly nose-up.  You can stamp a whole squadron of planes flying in formation if you want to take up space in your log book!

Just for grins, here's a link to the North Carolina Notices to Airmen (NOTAMS) site:

Stamp NOTAMS

This apparently has nothing to do with letterboxing, but nonetheless involves custom-made rubber stamp images that may be collected while visiting airports.