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)
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​
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.
      16 Nov 2023                  Graf Zeppelin, 3rd South America Flight, from Kuwait to Pernambuco, Brazil. 23 - 26 June 1934
      16 Nov 2023                   Graf Zeppelin - Kuwait to Brazil, 4th South American Flight, ​5 - 8 April 1933
      16 Nov 2023                   LZ-129 Hindenburg Flight, 7th North American Flight, 20 - 22 August 1936.
      10 Oct 2023                    Published article - Rare WW II censorship handstamp – used only at Batanagar By Piyush Khaitan,                                                                CCSG Bul.220, Vol.50.4 - October 2023
      10 Oct 2023                    Published article - Letter to Editor By Piyush Khaitan, CCSG Bul.220, Vol.50.4 - October 2023
      10 Oct 2023                    Published article - The Dardanus incident and the Pasind 5 cachet By Piyush Khaitan, BAMS Journal                                                            Vol.65, No.261, August 2023
      07 Sep 2023                   Indian Airlines Corporation Cargo section postcard, 9np meter franked from New Delhi to Bhopal,                                                                postcard shows the cargo arrival notice.
      04 Sep 2023                   LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - On Board Postal Stationery & Cancellation. Cover franked with 2 Reichsmark                                                            Zeppelin postage stamp, and tied with LUFTSCHIFF  GRAF ZEPPELIN / 10. 4. 1931 cancellation mark,                                                        and Egyptian arrival mark, Graff Zeppelin, Cairo, 11 AR 31. 
      26 Jul 2023                     Airmail cover from England to Australia via India, intended to go by Royal Airship R 101 only from                                                                Cardington Beds. ​​Cover franked 2 1/2d. and cancelled LONDON E.O./ 4 Oct 1930.
      26 Jul 2023                     9 maps showing evolution of Indian air mail routes from 1929 to 1960.
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