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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       23 Jul 2022                NIC Registered cover (R-217) sent on First Flight to London. From Bombay to Cairo by Mr. T.K. Punjabi                                                      (who lives in Bombay) on behalf of  Sunder Sukhdev as return address, who lives in Karachi. Cover is                                                           franked with 16a (overstamped with 2a) and cancelled by special flight cachet type B.
       28 Jun 2022               Useful links: Flying to the Emirates: The end of British Overseas Airways Corporation’s service to Dubai and                                              Sharjah in 1947" by Nicholas Stanley-Price.
       27 Jun 2022              ​39-70: An interesting cover cancelled KARACHI AIR PORT / 26 OCT 39 and signed by the pilot M. H. Khan.                                                 Addressed to Cawnpore
       22 Jun 2022              Foreign Airlines - B.O.A.C.
       22 Jun 2022               Philatelic Workshop on "Latest Trends in Exhibiting" Conducted by: Mr. Madhukar Jhingan,                                                                            Bengaluru, 16 June 2022.
       16 Jun 2022               Useful Links - Axis and Allied Propaganda to Indian Troops, by SGM Herbert A. Friedman (Ret.) 
       04 Jun 2022                Interesting places of origin: Air-India International 1948 two cover sent from Tirupur to Cairo and Tirupur                                                    to Geneva. 
       04 Jun 2022                Air-India International Air Mail label used in Egypt c.1950s. Listed under India in the Air Mail Labels                                                             catalogue # IND-B-3.
       16 May 2022               NIC - ​Press clipping dated 9th April 1960. The release of Two First Flight Cover (FDC) to commemorate the                                               First Air-India's Boeing 707 flight from Bombay to London on 19th April 1960 and Bombay to New York on                                                 14th May 1960.
       14 May 2022               Blog Post - ​Ed Wolf - Philatelic researcher, storyteller and aerophilatelist extraordinaire.
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