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    • 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 >
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        • 1933 Westwards: Rangoon - Calcutta via Akyab
      • 1933 Karachi - Singapore Extension
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      • 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
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Indian Air Force
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Indian Air Force, Vampire Jet Flight from Bangalore to Palam
15th March 1952
 
Cover franked with 28 annas value stamps and the higher value cancelled with a violet X killer cancellation, and the other with cds PALAM AIRPORT / NEW DELHI / 28 MAR / 5.15 P.M. / 1952. Cover has a yellow etiquette with green print ‘Vampire / JET AIR MAIL’ and a violet cachet No. 7 SQUADRON I.A.F., and is addressed to New York. Flown by Sqn Ldr. G. K. John.

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Indian Air Force, Vampire Jet Flight from Palam to Jamnagar
16th April 1952
 
Cover franked with 28 annas value stamps and the higher value cancelled with cds F.P.O. No. 721 / 19 V 52. Cover has a yellow etiquette with green print ‘Vampire / JET AIR MAIL’ and a violet cachet No. 7 SQUADRON I.A.F., and is addressed to New York. Flown by Sqn Ldr. G. K. John., Commanding No. 7 Squadron, I. A. F.

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Indian Air Force, Vampire Jet Flight from Palam to Jodhpur and return
25th September 1953
 
Registered Cover franked with 30 annas value stamps and cancelled with cds SECRETARIAT SOUTH / NEW DELHI / 25 SEP 53. Cover has a violet cachet TRAINING DIRECTORATE / AIR HEAD QUARTERS, and is addressed to New York. Flown by FLT LT V. M. BHATNAGAR. The reverse of the cover has New York delivery mark dated SEP 29 1953

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Indian Air Force, Hawker Hunter Jet Flight from Palam to Poona
26th May 1959
 
Forces Letter franked with the 15 np and 90 np IAF Silver Jubilee 1958 stamps and cancelled with cds NEW DELHI / 1. 11. 1959. Letter has a blue cachet INDIAN AIR FORCE / BY HAWKER HUNTER, and is addressed to New York. Flown by FLT LT CHOPRA ON aircraft number BS 361.

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Indian Air Force, Hawker Hunter Jet Flight from Kanpur to Lucknow and back
28th March 1959
 
Forces Letter franked with the 15 np and 90 np IAF Silver Jubilee 1958 stamps and cancelled with cds NEW DELHI / 1. 11. 1959. Letter has a blue cachet INDIAN AIR FORCE / BY HAWKER HUNTER, and is addressed to New York. Flown by SQN LDR B. K. GHOSH on aircraft number BS 285, on a Formation fly past and aerobatics.
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