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       16 May 2022               NIC - ​Press clipping dated 9th April 1960. The release of Two First Flight Cover (FDC) to commemorate the                                                         First Air-India's Boeing 707 flight from Bombay to London on 19th April 1960 and Bombay to New York on                                                           14th May 1960.
       14 May 2022               Blog Post - ​Ed Wolf - Philatelic researcher, storyteller and aerophilatelist extraordinaire.
       10 May 2022               In-depth article on the 1931 Second Experimental flight to Australia, by Mr. Ed Wolf.
       10 May 2022               In-depth article on the 1931 First Experimental Return flight From Australia, by Mr. Ed Wolf.
       04 Apr 2022                 ​Air-India International souvenir cover printed specially for the return flight (London – Geneva – Cairo –                                                                Bombay) in mint condition. An unused and blank cover is being recorded for the first time.
       29 Apr 2022                 Return Flight Cover -  Air -India International red souvenir registered cover (Geneve-1 295) for the return flight                                                      was posted in time. the cancellation mark on the postage stamp , GENEVE-1, POSTE AERIENNE, 12-VI-48-7  and                                                an arrival mark on the reverse INLAND REGN., DELY. DEPTT, BOMBAY G.P.O., DELY, 15 JUN 48, 10.45 A.M.
       29 Apr 2022                 Block of 16 with Constant Error Broken Tail and White spot on the plane variety. Block of four 12a. stamp issued                                                for the inaugural Air-India flight.
       29 Apr 2022                 Indian Airlines Inaugural Flight - Mangalore to Bombay on 20-Dec-1977.       
       29 Apr 2022                 Indian Airlines Inaugural Flight - Bombay to Mangalore on 19-Dec-1977.       
       29 Apr 2022                 Indian Airlines Inaugural Flight - Dibrugarh to Calcutta on 21-Dec-1977.       
       29 Apr 2022                 Indian Airlines Inaugural Flight - Jorhat to Dibrugarh on 21-Dec-1977.
       29 Apr 2022                 Indian National Airways - 1st Flight from Karachi to Lahore onwards to Srinagar. Carry error cancellation 6-DEC-                                                38 instead 6-DEC-34.
       29 Apr 2022                Great Britain Post office Notice, November 1933.
       29 Apr 2022                 Red Cross & St. John War Organisation 1939-1947, ​Published in 1949 and complied by P.G. Cambray & G.G.B.                                                    Briggs.
       04 Apr 2022                  Air-India International souvenir cover used in 1954. Cover sent from Siwri/Bombay on 28 JUN 54 to Beograd,                                                     Jugoslavia. On the reverse of the cover has arrival mark. Cover affixed with 14as postage rate stamp.
​       28 Mar 2022                 NIC - Covers that actually carry an arrival postmark of the UK
       28 Mar 2022                NIC - Interesting Places of Origin - This cover was flown from Allahabad, India to London, UK.
       28 Mar 2022                 NIC - Indian Airlines IC 605 Crash at Bangalore, Indian on 14th February 1990.
       14 Mar 2022              Indian Post Office Publication
       11 Mar 2022              The Postal Message Scheme of the French Red Cross in France & Its African Colonies in World War 2 by                                                              David Trapnell, The Stuart Rossiter Trust.
       11 Mar 2022              ​British West Africa and the French Air Mail Services to June 1940 by Barbara Priddy
       11 Mar 2022              Post Office Guide Part-I, Rules and Regulations relating to the Inland and Foreign Post. Corrected up to                                                                30th June 1960. Published under the Authority of the Director-General of Posts & Telegraphs.  
       11 Mar 2022              Tata Airline First Regular Air Mail Indian-Ceylon flight, Cover sent from Madras to Ceylon on 28th Feb 1938.
       19 Feb 2022               Air-India International First Flight to Rome-Sydney. Cover carry the cancellation ROMA FERR/(POSTA                                                                  AEGEA SEZA)/4.10.56-16. Air Mail label cancelled by pencil at Sydney? (JCW: AUS-C-1.4, used in 1956)
       28 Jan 2022               First Flight from Bombay to London, Cover sent to Bristol, England. 8 June 1948, Plain cover franked with                                                            the 12a value stamp issued for this flight and cancelled with the boxed rectangular special cancellation                                                                mark type C applied at Bombay on 8 JUN 48. The cover used is a business cover from THE GENERAL                                                                  ELECTRIC CO., (INDIA) LTD.
       27 Jan 2022               Air-India Postal Meter Panels - ​Boxed Meter Franked 2 Rupee value, with advertising panel (in Hindi and in                                                          English) FLY MY 747TH WONDER OF THE WORLD! and  date stamp BOMBAY / A.I. / BS-1038 / 19 VI 90
       27 Jan 2022               Air-India souvenir cover intended to flown on First Flight Bombay-London on 8th June 1948. Cover affixed                                                           with 12as postage stamp and was intended to sent from Ghatkopar to London. Cover does not carry any                                                           postal cancellation.
       27 Jan 2022                 Air-India International souvenir cover sent to London. Cover affixed with 12as value stamp and cancelled                                                            by special cachet type D. Insert found inside the cover which reads, With The Compliments of Air-India                                                                International Souvenir First Flight Cover June 8, 1948. 
       27 Jan 2022                Tata Airlines - 36-91: Cover mailed in Saharanpur on 15 December 1936, and flown on the Madras -                                                                       Colombo special flight on 23 December 1936. Interestingly cover is signed by the pilot Mr H. D. Bharucha.
       31 Dec 2021                Interesting Places of origin and destination: Air-India International souvenir cover flown from New Delhi,                                                              India to Guernsey, Channel Islands on inaugural First Flight of Air-India International from Bombay to                                                                  London on 8th June 1948. Cover carry 12as value stamp and have special flight cachet applied Type B. 
       16 Dec 2021                Indian Airlines Corporation stationery cover with the Airlines House, New Delhi-1 address. meter franked with                                                      Rs. 0.20 and cds EASTERN COURT P.O./I.A. D-236/8 II 72. and additionally with 5 p Refugee Relief India Postage                                               stamps.
       16 Dec 2021                Indian Airlines stationery cover with the Airlines House, New Delhi-1 address. On reverse meter franked with Rs.                                               0.20 and cds EASTERN COURT P.O./I.A. D-236/6 III 72. and additionally with 5p Refugee Relief India Postage                                                      stamps.
       16 Dec 2021                Indian Airlines stationery cover sent on 21 January 1972 to Nizamuddin East, New Delhi. On the reverse, delivery                                                mark NEW DELHI-13/DEL./24-1-72/9-HRS.
       16 Dec 2021                Indian Airlines stationery cover with the Airlines House, New Delhi-1 address. meter franked with Rs. 0.20 and                                                    cds EASTERN COURT P.O./I.A. D-236/28 XII 71. and additionally with 5 p Refugee Relief India Postage stamps.
       16 Dec 2021                Indian Airlines stationery cover with the Airlines House, New Delhi-1 address. Meter franked with Rs. 0.20 and                                                    cds EASTERN COURT P.O./I.A. D-236/17 XII 71. and additionally with 5p Refugee Relief India Postage stamps.
       09 Dec 2021                ​Jusqu'a Hand Stamps and Other Route Indications (2nd Edition) by Jan C. ter Welle, published in 2018.
       09 Dec 2021                The story of the England-India Air Mail by Harry Harper & Robert Brenard by the Times of India Annual 1936. 
       09 Dec 2021                Air-India First Flight Mumbai to Doha. Air-India 969, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, 21st February 2020 and Air-India                                                 First Flight Doha to Mumbai. Air-India 969, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, 21st February 2020. Cover sent from Doha,                                               Qatar to Mumbai, India.
       09 Dec 2021                Air-India International First Flight Bombay to London, Cover sent to Cairo from Bhavnagar, Pura. Kathiawar.
                                             Cover having special flight cachet type B. ​
       23 Nov 2021               Interesting places of origin and destination: Air mail cover sent on Air-India International First Flight on 8th                                                           June 1948 from Pandur, South India to San Francisco, USA. Cover is correctly franked with 18as postal                                                               stamp and bearing a type C cachet and have Bombay cancellation mark - BOMBAY G.P.O./8.JUN.48.
                                             Air-India International souvenir 12as stamp have Broken Tail Error. 
       23 Nov 2021               Postage Stamps Broken Tail Variety: Air mail cover sent on Air-India International First Flight on 8th June                                                             1948 from Pandur, South India to San Francisco, USA. Air-India International souvenir 12as stamp have                                                               Broken Tail Error. 
       23 Nov 2021               Other interesting cover - Air-India International souvenir First Flight cover. This is an example of later use of                                                         cover only. This cover was sent from Philatelic Bureau Bombay to London. FDC - Conquest of Everest.
       18 Nov 2021               Air-India First Flight cover from Bombay to Bahrein on 2nd May 1962. Unclaimed & Undelivered, return to                                                             sender.
       18 Nov 2021               Air-India business stationery: two stationery cover sent from the Republic of Nauru to Bombay, India.
       18 Nov 2021               Other interesting cover: Air-India International First Flight Bombay - London 8 June 1948. Sender's address                                                         on front and recipient address on verso. ​cachet type D.
       18 Nov 2021               Interesting places of origin: Air-India International First Flight cover, Bombay-London 8 June 1948. The                                                                 cover was obviously posted in India by a sender, who wanted this to be sent to an address in the UK upon                                                           completion of the flight.
       16 Nov 2021               Interesting places of origin: Air-India International First Flight from Simla to Cairo, Simla to Geneva                                                                         and Simla to London. ​
​       03 Sep 2021                Interesting Places of origin: Air-India International First Flight to London from Bombay. Cover sent from                                                               Jhansi, India to Geneva, Switzerland. Cover is postage due with 2as & cachet applied on the cover is type C.
       03 Sep 2021                Privately printed souvenir cover of Philatelie Orient, Bombay send to Geneva with the 12as + 2as value                                                                 stamp issued for use that day and cancelled with the special boxed rectangular first flight cachet type C.
       30 Aug 2021                Air-India International First Flight from Bombay to London 8 June 1948 This is souvenir cover sent from                                                             Bombay to Geneva. Cover is underpaid 2as, as the postal rate for the Europe other than London was 14as.                                                         Cachet applied on the cover is Type C.
       30 Aug 2021                Interesting places of origin: Air-India International First Flight to London from Bombay. Cover sent from                                                               Surat and Bilimora to London
       12 Jul 2021                  Interesting Places of origin: Air-India International First Flight, 8 June 1948, Cover sent                                                                                              from Secunderabad (Deccan) to London, UK.
       02 Jul 2021                  Bombay Philatelic Company cover addressed to England with the 1948 Air-India International stamp.
       25 Jun 2021                 Resources - The Postal History of Prisoner of War Camps in India in WW2 and Indian Prisoners of War                                                                     Overseas. by David Trapnell, Published by India Study Circle, UK in 2016 and based on the collection of                                                                 Mr. Raj Sukhani. 
       25 Jun 2021                 Self adhesive Geneva meter franking label dated 22.6.78 with panel showing the Air-India Boeing 747                                                                  Jumbo Jet and the legend FLY /AIR-/INDIA. 
       14 Jun 2021                 The Anglo-Boer War Philately Society Publication No.2
       24 may 2021                Air-India International stationery cover Geneva office, Rome 18 April 1950.
       23 May 2021               Interesting Origin: Air-India International First Flight cover on 8th June 1948, from Nagpur to Geneva and                                                             Trichinopoly to Geneva.
       16 May 2021               Tata Airlines - 1938 Karachi to Madras extension to Colombo via Trichinopoly - Cover from Trichinopoly to                                                           Colombo updated.
       03 May 2021               Indian Inland Postal Rates from 1957-2019 By Abhishek Bhuwalka ​
       03 May 2021               1933 ITCA Karachi-Calcutta Service: Windhoek-Calcutta, Palestine-Calcutta & Calcutta-Cairo.
       03 May 2021               1933 ITCA Calcutta to Rangoon via Akyab: Baghdad-Akyab, Athens-Akyab, Antwerpen-Akyab, Wageningen-                                                          Akyab, Stockholm-Akyab, London-Rangoon, Wageningen-Rangoon, Brussel-Rangoon, Luxembourg-                                                                      Rangoon, Gibraltar-Rangoon, Vienna-Rangoon, Lausanne-Rangoon, Malta-Rangoon, Athens-                                                                                  Rangoon, Alexandria-Rangoon, Baghdad-Rangoon, & Basarah-Rangoon.
       03 May 2021               1933 ITCA Karachi-Singapore Extension: Rangoon-Bandon, Tavoy-Leicester, Bandon-London, Bangkok-                                                                London, Akyab-Cape Town, Akyab-Singapore, Calcutta-Bangkok, Calcutta-Alor Star & Karachi-Singapore.
       03 May 2021               1933 Indian National Airways: Calcutta-Sandoway (Rangoon), Calcutta-Bassein, Calcutta-Chittagong,                                                                    Bassein-Calcutta & Chittagong-Calcutta.
       03 May 2021               1933 Indian National Airways: Calcutta-Dacca and Dacca to Calcutta
       03 May 2021               1934 Indian National Airways, Karachi to Lahore.
       03 May 2021               1939 Indian National Airways, Karachi to Delhi via Lahore service: Lahore-Delhi.
       03 May 2021               1934 Madras Air Taxi Service - Brindisi to Puri via Karachi & Calcutta, and Calcutta to Vizagapatnam.
       03 May 2021               1932 Tata Airlines Karachi Madras - Other Southbound: Ahmedabad-Bombay
       03 May 2021               1932 Tata Airlines Karachi Madras - Other Northbound: Madras-St. Helena, Bellary-Bombay &
                                              Madras-Bombay.
       03 May 2021               1932 Tata Airlines - Karachi-Madras, Official Northbound - Bombay to Limassol.
        28 Apr 2021                Reference Book  - C.E.F. - The China Expeditionary Force 1900-1923 By D.S. Virk, John C. Hume, Derek                                                                  Lang & Gerald Sattin, Published Jointly by The Philatelic Congress of India (PCI) & The Army Postal                                                                      Service Association in 1992.
        28 Apr 2021                Air-India Kanchenjunga  24 January 1966 - Boeing 707 aircraft debris recovered from the glacier melt by                                                              Mr. Alan Tramontana (a retired policemen who lived there) below the crash site in the Alps in 2019.
        27 Apr 2021                 NIC - 1948 Air-India - Other Interesting Cover - Cover bearing the 1947 issued 12a airmail rate postage                                                                 stamp used on this flight and addressed to Switzerland. Cancelled by the first flight cachet, a rare                                                                         sighting. Understamped by 2a and taxed 29c.
        26 Apr 2021                 1931 England-Australia 1st Experimental Flight -  Eastwards Stage: Darwin-Rangoon, Darwin-Karachi,                                                                   Allahabad-Delhi and Westwards Stage: Delhi-Allahabad, Delhi-Victoria Point, Jodhpur-Rangoon.
        26 Apr 2021                 1931 England-Australia 2nd Experimental Flight - Calcutta-Victoria Point.
        26 Apr 2021                 1929 Indian State Air Service - Calcutta-London Stage and Jodhpur-Hyderabad Stage.
        25 Apr 2021                Joint War Organisation Indian Red Cross & St John Cinderella Stamp Seals. by www.myindianstamp.com,                                                           4th June 2017.
        24 Apr 2021                Rocket Mail - Type JC 23 (a) - Girl Guides Rally :2 March 1937 - Propagnda. R. No.8
        24 Apr 2021                1948 Air-India - Interesting Place of Origin - Cover address from Satara & Yercaud.
        24 Apr 2021                1948 Air-India - Interesting Place of destination - Cover address to Guernsey, Channel Islands.
        23 Apr 2021                Crash Mail Air-India B-707 Annapurna 22 June 1982, one more salvaged cover recovery from crash site
        23 Apr 2021                Crash Mail - Air-India Kanchenjunga some more crash site material recovery.
        18 Apr 2021                A is for AIRGRAPH - The Airgraph Service (17 April 1941 to 31 July 1945) by William M. Senkus                                                                              on https://alphabetilately.org/, 24th July 2020.
        17 Apr 2021                Air-India B-787-8 Dreamliner First Flight To and Far, Bombay to Nairobi, 27 Nov 2019 and 29 Nov 2019                                                                  respectively.
        17 Apr 2021                Postal Meter Panel - Bombay, 7 March 1961
        16 Apr 2021                Catalog of Postal Stationery Airgraphs - First Edition. by Wayne Menuz, FRPSL and Published by The                                                                    United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) in October 2020
        13 Apr 2021                Copyright on website has been updated.
        08 Apr 2021                February 1937 - Rocket Mail cover and other material updated.
        07 Apr 2021                Unlisted in PT - Privately printed souvenir cover of Philatelie Orient, Bombay send to London.
        07 Apr 2021                Indian Airlines First flight – Calcutta to Jorhat, Calcutta to Dibrugarh and  Dibrugarh to Jorhat on                                                                            24 December 1977
        07 Apr 2021                Indian Airlines First flight –Bhavnagar to Bombay 2 January 1978
        07 Apr 2021                Indian Airlines First flight – Bombay to Bhavnagar 21 December 1977
        07 Apr 2021                Colombo-Bombay survey flight Tata Sons, Piloted by Neville Vintcent, 7 May 1931.
        25 Mar 2021               Other Interesting cover: Cover from Calcutta to London has special Flight cachet# type A., The BOMBAY                                                              G.P.O. / 8 JUN 48 cds is missing. Cover sent from Calcutta to London.
        25 Mar 2021               Error on stamp: Air-India souvenir cover has special Flight cachet# type C. Error on stamp, white spot in                                                              the middle of the plane between engine two and three.
        25 Mar 2021               Later use of stamp: An example of later usage of the commemorative stamp on cover, which is cancelled                                                            on 11 June 1948 by Bombay G.P.O.
        25 Mar 2021               Local Cancellations - against the Postal Dept. instructions. Souvenir cover has a COUNCIL HOUSE /NEW                                                           DELHI/31 MAY 48 cancellation on front of the cover. This cover actually postally not  travelled.
        25 Mar 2021              Early usage of stamp: rare example of early usage of commemorative 8 Jun e1948 stamp on 3rd May                                                                1948 which is as per postal authority is not authorised. 
        25 Mar 2021              Return Flight cover: Rare ​ Air-India International souvenir cover with return first flight from London to                                                                     Bombay on 10 June 1948. 
        25 Mar 2021              Postage Due (Underpaid): Air-India International souvenir cover sent from Bombay to USA. Cover has                                                                   special flight cachet type A and under stamped by T 29 cent.
        25 Mar 2021              Interesting Place of origin: Cover from Nainital to London, Nainital to Geneva (underpaid by 2as) and                                                                     Bangalore/Basra to Geneva (underpaid by 2as). ​
        19 Mar 2021               Air-India International First Inaugural Flight Bombay to Tokyo on 7 May 1955 souvenir cover 'With Best                                                                Compliments of Air-India International’ card.
        19 Mar 2021               Air-India 25 years of International services, 8 June 1973, First Day Cover
        19 Mar 2021               Alliance Air (A subsidiary of Air India) First Flight from Mysuru to Mangaluru 11 December 2020. Special                                                              cover issued to commemorate the flight. One cover cancelled at Mysuru and another meter franked at                                                                Mysuru with a Philatelic Bureau cachet..
        19 Mar 2021               Air-India 25 years of International services, 8 June 1973, First Day Cover
        19 Mar 2021               Air-India International First Inaugural Flight Bombay to Tokyo on 7 May 1955 souvenir cover 'With Best                                                                Compliments of Air-India International’ card.
        19 Mar 2021               Air-India International Business Stationery cover Amsterdam, Holland 8 Dec 1949.
        14 Mar 2021               Catapult Mail Calcutta to Pernambuco by air 1-2 April 1937 on DLH
         24 Jan 2021               NIC - 1948 India to Switzerland cover. Sender request for "Wait for person from Iraq"
         15 Jan 2021               NIC - 1936 Indo-Ceylon Special Christmas Flight, Colombo - UK cover from Mike Robinson Collection ​
         12 Jan 2021              The Catapult Mail by The Postal History of ICAO. (Courtesy: Rainbow Stamp News, Monthly e-stamp magazine                                                    Dehradun, January 2021, Vol.XIII No.157)
         10 Jan 2021               NIC - 1938 Flying Boat Coogee 8 Covers and pilots log book from Terry Hare-Walker Collection.​
         08 Jan 2021                Imperial Airways at Southampton Empire Flying Boat Services, 1936 to 1940, by Peter Wingent.
         28 Dec 2020                NIC - 1955 India to USA via Nepal, example of later use of commemorative Air-India 1948 stamps
         04 Dec 2020                Money used in Prisoner-of-War Camps in India. by Rezwan Razack
        28 Oct 2020                 NIC - 1932 Delhi Flying Club- 1 Cover on Eastwards & 2 covers on Westwards from Terry Hare-Walker                                                                   Collection.
        15 Oct 2020                 NIC - 1937 Tata Airlines - First Flight to Bhuj, one cover from Terry Hare-Walker collection.
        15 Oct 2020                 NIC - 1937 Tata Airlines Delhi-Bombay Flight, one Southbound and one Northbound cover from Terry Hare-                                                         Walker Collection.  
         15 Oct 2020                NIC - 1932 Delhi Flying Club, one Eastwards and one Westwards cover from Terry Hare-Walker Collection. 
          15 Oct 2020               NIC - 1929 India State Air Services,  one Eastwards and two Westwards covers from Terry Hare-Walker                                                                 Collection. 
           11 Oct 2020              1933 Tata Air Lines - NIC - Poona to Bellary cover from Terry Hare-Walker Collection. 
           11 Oct 2020              1946 Tata Air Lines Bombay-Calcutta stage - NIC - Two covers each on Westbound and Eastbound from Terry                                                    Hare-Walker Collection.
            30 Sep 2020             1932 Tata Airlines - NIC - Official Southbound, Northbound and Other Northbound Cover from                                                                                Terry Hare-Walker Collection.
            17 Aug 2020             Article - Post-War Airlines of India by Maurice Wickstead. Published in the Propliner Annual 2018 & 2019
            16 Aug 2020:             Flying Boat Coogee Survey Flight February-March 1938