Indian Airmails

This website is for the amateur hobbyist, and contains information and image galleries of all kinds of Indian Air Mails like Airmail Postage Stamps, First Flight Covers, Postal Notices, Return Flight Covers, Crash Covers, Postal Meter Panels and other Collectibles. It is still under construction, and there is a lot more being added, so keep coming back.
Cover flown on the first return flight of the Tata Karachi-Madras service (Madras-Bombay stage) on 17-18 Oct 1932 signed by pilot Neville Vintcent who went on to become the General Manager of Tata Air Services. (Very few such signed covers are known).
Registered cover sent by Prof. S. N. Bose (inventor of the Bose-Einstein Condensate) in Calcutta to Nobel Prize winner Prof. Niels Bohr at Copenhagen. It is widely believed that Prof. Bose also deserved the Nobel Prize.
Postal significance: Late use of the stamp on 29 DEC 1951. As it is a registered letter, the post office clerk had an opportunity to see the stamp and should have refused to accept it as valid postage – Improper acceptance.
 
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       24 Mar 2023                 Cover sent from Klon, Germany to Solapur, India with Zeppelin stamp on 12 April 2007.
       14 Mar 2023                 A Postcard sent from Madras to Hyderabad on 4 JAN 35 on a First Flight from Madras to Hyderabad.
                                               Postcard also carry delivery mark HYDERABAD DECCAN/DELY./4 JAN 35.
       23 Nov 2022                 Air-India International souvenir registered cover from Bombay to London, having First Flight cachet Type                                                   A and franked with 12a (front) + 4a (reverse). Interestingly, the 4a registration fee applied at reverse of the                                                 cover has a pair of KGVI 1a tete-beche Stamps.
       16 Nov 2022                 A photograph of the Memorial garden and Sundial that honor the memory of the victims of the 1985 Air-                                                   India disaster located in ​West Cork’s tiny Ahakista village in Ireland.
       13 Nov 2022                 1934 - 11th South American Flight from Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco from 27th to 30th October 1934.
​       24 Sep 2022                 Indian Airlines meter panel - New Delhi, 5 December 196?
​       24 Sep 2022                 Indian Airlines stationery cover address to New Delhi. Meter franked with Rs. 0.20 and cds EASTERN                                                        COURT P.O./I.A. D-236/22 XI 71. and additionally with 5p Refugee Relief India Postage stamps.
​       24 Sep 2022                 Indian Airlines official stationary cover dated 18 December 1971
​       24 Sep 2022                  B.O.A.C. AP Wire photo datelined New York, April 9, 1954
​       24 Sep 2022                  B.O.A.C. advertisement in August 1946 promoting overseas services. They had 5 services a week to India                                                 and a journey time of 1½ days.
Block of four 12a. Stamps issued for use on 8 June 1948 to celebrate the first flight of Air-India International.
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England – Australia route map
Lambert & Butler’s cigarettes c. 1936