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    • 1911 1st Aerial Post NIC
    • Indian State Air Services >
      • 1929 Karachi - Delhi via Hyderabad & Jodhpur
      • 1931 Last Flight Karachi-Delhi
    • Delhi Flying Club >
      • 1931 Emergency Flight by Delhi Flying Club
      • 1932 Karachi - Delhi
    • Indian Trans-Continental Airways >
      • 1933 Karachi - Calcutta >
        • 1933 Eastwards: Karachi - Calcutta
        • 1933 Westwards: Calcutta to Karachi
      • 1933 Calcutta - Rangoon via Akyab >
        • 1933 Eastwards: Calcutta - Rangoon via Akyab
        • 1933 Westwards: Rangoon - Calcutta via Akyab
      • 1933 Karachi - Singapore Extension
      • 1934 Karachi - Australia Extension
      • 1936 Rangoon - Hong Kong
    • Indian National Airways >
      • 1933 Calcutta - Dacca
      • 1933 Rangoon - Calcutta
      • 1934 Karachi - Lahore
      • 1938 Delhi - Lahore
      • 1939 Karachi - Delhi
      • 1940 Karachi - Calcutta
      • 1947 Calcutta - Rangoon
    • Air Services of India Ltd >
      • 1938 Bombay-Kathiawar
      • 1940 Bombay-Amreli
      • 1940 Kolhapur - Bombay
    • Madras Air Taxi Service
    • Experimental & Survey Flights. >
      • 1931 England - Australia Flight >
        • 1st Experimental Flight
        • 2nd Experimental Flight
      • 1938 Flying Boat Coogee
    • Dalmia-Jain Airways Ltd
    • Orient Airways Ltd
    • Starline / Indian Overseas Airline >
      • 1948 - Nagpur - Lucknow
      • 1949 First Indian Night Mail Flight
      • 1949 All Up Internal Air Mail
    • Bharat Airways >
      • 1949 - Calcutta - Hong Kong
      • 1950 - Calcutta - Singapore
    • Himalayan Aviation
    • Aviation Related Events >
      • 1938 Karachi Airport
      • 1940 Hyderabad Air Service
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    • 1931 - Karachi - Madras: Route Survey Flight
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    • 1933 - Karachi - Madras via Poona
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      • 1935 Bombay-Hyderabad Errors on Stamp
    • 1935 - Bombay - Calcutta demonstration flight
    • 1935 - Bombay - Travancore via Goa & Cannanore
    • 1936 - Madras to Colombo via Trichinopoly
    • 1937 - First Flight to Bhuj
    • 1937 - Delhi - Bombay via Gwalior, Bhopal & Indore
    • 1938 - Karachi - Madras extension to Colombo via Trichnopoly
    • 1938 - Trichinopoly - Trivandrum extension
    • 1938 - Mansoon halt at Poona
    • 1946 - Bombay - Calcutta via Nagpur
  • Air-India
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        • Interesting Destinations
        • Interesting Places of Origin
        • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations
      • More interesting covers
      • Return Flight covers
      • Other Philatelic Curiosities
      • Award winning exhibit
    • 1948 - 1953 Early Route Expansion
    • 1954 - 1959 Early Route Expansion
    • 1960 - 1965 Air-India Boeing 707 Era.
    • 1966 - 1970 Air-India Boeing 707 Era.
    • 1971 - 1975 Boeing 747 & Other Aircraft Era
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    • Crash Mail Covers
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      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Colombo August 1952
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Singapore October 1952
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Tokyo April 1953
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Sydney March 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Tokyo July 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Colombo August-September 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Tokyo April 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Singapore June 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Sydney November 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Manila November 1961
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Auckland April 1963
      • B.O.A.C. Boeing 707 London to Nandi November 1965
      • B.O.A.C. VC 10 40th Anniversary of Regular Airmail
    • Trans - Australian
    • TWA
  • Others
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      • LZ-10 Schwaben
      • LZ-13 Hansa
      • LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin
      • LZ-129 Hindenberg
      • LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II
      • Catapult Mail
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Air-India 1965 - 1970 Boeing 707 Era.

International Philatelic Exhibition, Geneva
20 May 1966

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Souvenir Air-India cover issued for the occasion. Inadequate franking for international air mail, and no receiving mark, so on evidence of to indicate this cover was actually flown.

Austrian Air Mail Salon Aerophilately Day 3 June 1966
Special cover issued on 23 May 1966 by Air-India.

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This is a commemorative Air-India cover issued for occasion on postmarked Bombay, 23 May 1966, and additionally franked with an Austrian stamp and special cancellation mark to celebrate the Aerophilately Day on 3 June 1966.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Tehran sector
Flight on 1 April 1967.

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 1 April 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Tehran - Bombay sector
Flight on 2 April 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 2 April 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Brussels sector
Flight on 5 April 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 5 April 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Brussels - Bombay sector
Flight on 5 April 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 5 April 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Mauritius sector
Flight on 15 August 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 15 August 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Mauritius - Bombay sector
Flight on 15 August 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 16 August 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Kuala Lumpur sector
Flight on 18 August 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 18 August 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Kuala Lumpur - Bombay sector
Flight on 18 August, 1967
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 18 August 1967.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Addis Ababa - Bombay sector
Flight on 27 October, 1968
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 27 October 1968.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 27 October, 1968.

First Boeing 707 Direct Flight on Addis Ababa - Bombay sector
Flight on 27 October 1968.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 27 October, 1968.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Kuwait - Zurich Sector
Flight on 29 October 1968

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 29 October, 1968.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Addis Ababa sector
Flight on 30 October, 1968
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 30 October 1968.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Entebbe sector
Flight on 31 October, 1968
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 31 October,1968.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Entebbe - Bombay sector
Flight on 31 October, 1968
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 31 October, 1968.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Amsterdam sector
Flight on 2 April, 1969
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 2 April 1969.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Amsterdam - Bombay sector
Flight on 2 April, 1969
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 2 April 1969.

First Boeing 707 Direct Flight on Teheran - Zurich sector
​Flight on 2 April, 1969

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first direct flight on 2 April, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first direct flight on 2 April, 1969.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Dubai sector
Flight on 2 July, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 2 July, 1969.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Dubai - Bombay sector
Flight on 5 July, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 5 July, 1969.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Dubai - Geneva sector
Flight on 30 October, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first direct flight on 30 October, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first direct flight on 30 October, 1969.

First Boeing 707 Direct Flight on Geneva - Dubai sector
Flight on 6 November, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 6 November, 1969. Franked with Liechtenstein adhesives and cancellation on 6 November.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 6 November, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 6 November, 1969. Franked with Liechtenstein adhesives and cancellation on 5 November.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 6 November, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the direct return flight on 6 November, 1969.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the direct return flight on 6 November, 1969.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Abu Dhabi sector
Flight on 1 October, 1970.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 1 October, 1970.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Abu Dhabi - Bombay sector
Flight on 2 October, 1970.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 2 October, 1970.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Dhahran - Bombay sector
Flight on 3 November, 1970.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 3 November, 1970.
​No postal stamps affixed but with Dhahran Airport Roller Cancellation.

First Boeing 707 Flight on Bombay - Dhahran sector
Flight on 3 November, 1970.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 3 November, 1970.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 3 November, 1970.
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