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  • Pre-1953 Airlines
    • Indian State Air Services >
      • 1929 Karachi - Delhi via Hyderabad & Jodhpur
    • 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
      • 1936 Rangoon - Hong Kong
    • Indian National Airways >
      • 1933 Calcutta - Dacca
      • 1933 Rangoon - Calcutta
      • 1934 Karachi - Lahore
      • 1939 Karachi - Delhi
      • 1947 Calcutta - Rangoon
    • Madras Air Taxi Service
    • Experimental & Survey Flights. >
      • 1931 England - Australia Flight >
        • 1st Experimental Flight
        • 2nd Experimental Flight
      • 1938 Flying Boat Coogee
  • Tata Airlines
    • 1932 - Karachi - Madras >
      • Official Southbound
      • Official Northbound
      • Other Southbound
      • Other Northbound
      • Other Material
    • 1933 - Karachi - Madras via Poona
    • 1935 Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad >
      • 1935 - Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad
      • 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
    • 1948 Air-India International Bombay - London Flight >
      • Postage Stamps - Constant Errors
      • The Postage Stamp
      • First Day Covers
      • DG's Circular & Postal Notices
      • Official Covers
      • Air-India Covers
      • Special Flight Cachet
      • Postage Rates gallery
      • Local Cancellations
      • Private Covers Gallery
      • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations >
        • 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
    • 1976 Onward Boeing 747 & Other Aircraft Era
    • Crash Mail Covers
    • Postal Meter panels
  • Indian Airlines
    • 1960 - 1964
    • 1965 - 1969
    • 1970 - 1974
    • 1975 - 1979
    • 1980 - Onward
    • Meter Panel & Stationery
  • Others
    • Zeppelin & Catapult >
      • LZ-10 Schwaben
      • LZ-13 Hansa
      • LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin
      • LZ-129 Hindenberg
      • LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II
      • Catapult Mail
      • Ephemera
    • Rocket Mail >
      • Indian Rocket Mail
      • Sikkim Rocket Mail
    • Pigeon Mail
    • Balloon Mail
    • Airship R 101
    • Indian Air Force
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1971 to 1975 Air-India Boeing 747 & Other Aircraft Era

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First Flight Air-India Boeing 747 Bombay-London and Bombay-New York document.
First Boeing 747 Flight on Bombay - London sector
Flight on 21 May 1971.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 21 May 1971.

First Boeing 747 Flight on London - Bombay sector
Flight on 21 May 1971.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 21 May 1971.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 21 May 1971.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Bombay - London sector
Flight on 21 May 1971

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the BOMBAY-LONDON-NEWYORK flight on 26 May 1971, Cancelled at BOMBAY, it was originally supposed to be sent on the first flight on the extended BOMBAY-LONDON-NEWYORK sector but instead was sent earlier on 21 May BOMBAY-LONDON inaugural flight.
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Cover issued in Frankfurt on 21 May on the occasion of the arrival of first AIr-India Jumbo Boeing 747.
​Franked with a 5pf German Stamp and tied with Frankfurt AM Main 75 Flughafen cancellation dated 21.5.71.

First Boeing 747 Flight Bombay-London-New York sector
Flight on 26 May 1971.

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 26 May 1971, cancelled at BOMBAY.

Air-India Boeing 747
First Flight to New York

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Cover flown on the first flight from Bombay to New York on 26 May 1971.

Air-India First Flight Geneva - Dharhan
26 May 1971.

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Air-India First Flight cover flown from Geneva to Dharhan on 26 May 1971.
(Image Courtesy: Murali Nair)

First Flight Decca - Delhi - Bombay - London
4 February 1972.

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Souvenir Air-India Cover franked with newly issued Bangladesh 1 Re stamp, and cancelled at Dacca, addressed to Air-India, London.

First Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet flight from Geneva to Bombay
14 June 1972.

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Souvenir Air-India cover with a handstamp recording the first Air-India Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet flight AI 104 from Geneva to Bombay on 14 June 1972.

Air-India Special Event at Geneva Airport
10 October 1972.

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A commemorative cachet on 20c. Swiss Post Card to celebrate arrival of 3 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet on the same day of Air-India, BOAC and Swissair. The Air-India flight was on the New York - Geneva - Bombay route.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Bombay - Osaka sector
Flight on 2 November 1972.

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 2 November, 1972.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Osaka - Bombay sector
Flight on 3 November 1972.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 3 November, 1972.

First Day Cover – 25th anniversary of the Air-India International First Flight
8th June 1973

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First Boeing 747 Flight on Bombay - Doha sector
Flight on 1 November 1973.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 1 November, 1973.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Doha - Bombay sector
Flight on 1 November 1973

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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 1 November, 1973.
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This is the commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 1 November, 1973.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Bombay - Muscat sector
Flight on 12 February 1974
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This is a commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first flight on 12 february, 1974.

First Boeing 747 Flight on Muscat - Bombay sector
Flight on 12 February 1974
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This is a commemorative Air-India cover issued for the first return flight on 12 february, 1974.
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