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.
 
Indian Postal Rates
By Piyush Khaitan
​PDMSG Newsletter No.105, March 2023
Master Class (Pun Intended) 
​By Piyush Khaitan
​PDMSG Newsletter No.105, March 2023
Air India Collector - Piyush Khaitan & Vivek Matthai
e-Magazine - 100 Knots, September 2022 edition
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What's New on our Website
Last 10 updates on this website are listed below. Click each link below to go to the respective web-page.
      07 Jun 2023                  Deli Flying Club - Karachi to Delhi list of cover updated - Delhi to Jodhpur, Delhi to Hyderabad, Delhi to                                                         Karachi, Jodhpur to Hyderabad, Jodhpur to Karachi & Hyderabad (Sind) to Karachi.
      05 Jun 2023                  Graf Zeppelin - Rome Flight, cover sent to Karachi, Friedrichshafen - 29 May 1933.
      12 May 2023                 NIC: J.R.D. Tata signed cover from Karachi to Madras carried by the first Airmail flight on 15-Oct-1932.
      12 May 2023                  NIC: J.R.D. Tata signed cover from Karachi to Bombay carried by the first Airmail flight on 15-Oct-1932. 
      12 May 2023                 Air-India postal meter panel - Bombay, 26th August 1954. 
      13 Apr 2023                  Article: Indian Postal Rates By Piyush Khaitan ​PDMSG Newsletter No.105, March 2023
      13 Apr 2023                  Article: Master Class (Pun Intended) By Piyush Khaitan PDMSG Newsletter No.105, March 2023.
       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.
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