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.
9 maps showing evolution of Indian air mail routes from 1929 to 1960.
(Ref: The Story of Indian Air Transport by Mr. J.R.D. Tata - Chairman, Air-India International
at the Royal Aeronautical Society on 18 Nov 1960)
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Recent Published Articles
The Dardanus incident and the Pasind 5 cachet
By Piyush Khaitan BAMS Journal Vol.65, No.261, August 2023​
Rare WW II censorship handstamp – used only at Batanagar
By Piyush Khaitan CCSG Bul.220, Vol.50.4 - October 2023​
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​and book review.
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.
     23 Nov 2024                      AMSIPEX-25 Entry Submission Deadline Extended to 25th December 2024.
     22 Nov 2024                      4th June 1936 South Atlantic flight of Air France. Chile to Darjeeling via Marseilles.
     22 Nov 2024                     1st April 1949 - First All Up Internal Air Mail - Bombay Cover address locally on 1st April 1949.
     21 Nov 2024                     Unlisted in PT - Private cover addressed to Station Manager, Air-India International, Geneva from Victory                                                   Stamp Co., Madras on 8 June 1948. Cover shows a cartoon drawing of the Lockheed L-749A, with the                                                       12 as stamp issued for use on the 1948 first flight to London, and cancelled with the special boxed                                                              rectangular cachet at Bombay G.P.O.
     21 Nov 2024                     Spot under the Left wing error. Registered cover to England, franked with the 12as Air-India stamp issue,                                                   tied with the special boxed rectangular cachet. There is a white spot under the left wing.
     04 Sep 2024                     AMSIPEX-25 Updated Announcement dated 4th Oct 2024.
     09 Sep 2024                     Indian Airlines Proving Flight 737 Flight from Calcutta to Port Blair on 18th June 1977.
     09 Sep 2024                     Indian Airlines 1st Boeing 737 Flight from Bangalore to Calcutta Stage on 18th May 1977
     09 Sep 2024                    Indian Airlines 1st Boeing 737 Flight from Bangalore to Hyderabad Stage on 18th May 1977.
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.
 
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