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.
Flight of fancy
By Jane Borges, Mid-Day Mumbai, 30 May 2021
If anyone doubts India’s glorious aero history, this aerophilatelist’s unique collectibles of Indian airmails and
Air India memorabilia, can prove otherwise. Click here to read full article.
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.
       12 Jul 2021                  Interesting Places of origin: Air-India International First Flight, 8 June 1948, Cover sent                                                                                    from Secunderabad (Deccan) to London, UK.
       02 Jul 2021                  Bombay Philatelic Company cover addressed to England with the 1948 Air-India International stamp
       25 Jun 2021                 Resources - The Postal History of Prisoner of War Camps in India in WW2 and Indian Prisoners of War                                                           Overseas. by David Trapnell, Published by India Study Circle, UK in 2016 and based on the collection of                                                      Mr. Raj Sukhani. 
       25 Jun 2021                 Self adhesive Geneva meter franking label dated 22.6.78 with panel showing the Air-India Boeing 747                                                        Jumbo Jet and the legend FLY /AIR-/INDIA. 
       14 Jun 2021                 The Anglo-Boer War Philately Society Publication No.2
       24 may 2021                Air-India International stationery cover Geneva office, Rome 18 April 1950.
       23 May 2021               Interesting Origin: Air-India International First Flight cover on 8th June 1948, from Nagpur to Geneva and                                                    Trichinopoly to Geneva.
       16 May 2021               Tata Airlines - 1938 Karachi to Madras extension to Colombo via Trichinopoly - Cover from Trichinopoly to                                                Colombo updated.
       03 May 2021               Indian Inland Postal Rates from 1957-2019 By Abhishek Bhuwalka 
       03 May 2021               1933 ITCA Karachi-Calcutta Service: Windhoek-Calcutta, Palestine-Calcutta & Calcutta-Cairo.
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