Latest additions to our catalogue

28/4/1964 - GERMANY - the first Lufthansa flight, Stuttgart to New York - cover properly postally used with the arrival postmark of New York Kennedy airport - Lotto/41597

25/4/1964 - UNITED STATES - the first Lufthansa flight, New York to Stuttgart - cover properly postally used with the Stuttgart arrival postmark - Lotto/41598

28/5/1964 - GERMANY - Lufthansa first transpolar flight, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Anchorage, Tokyo and return - cover flown through the post with the Tokyo arrival postmark - Lotto/41599

28-29/5/1964 - JAPAN - Lufthansa first transpolar flight, Tokyo, Anchorage, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Frankfurt - cover flown through the post with the Frankfurt arrival postmark - Lotto/41600

3/12/1969 - ITALY - The 50th anniversary of the London to Melbourne postal flight, with Italian participation (the journey was flown from Rome to Singapore by Alitalia and from Singapore to Melbourne by a special flight of the company TAA, " Trans Australian Airlines "). A cover from the air dispatch sent direct to Australia, with arrival at Melbourne - Lotto/41601

17/12/1969 - GREAT BRITAIN - For the 50th anniversary of the flight to Australia made in 1919 by the Smith brothers, the Royal Air Force organised a commemorative flight on 17 December with a Lycoming-engined SIAI-Marchetti F.260 flown by Lieutenant Kingsley: it left London and ended at Sydney on 2 January 1970. A cover duly carried, with the Sydney arrival postmark - Lotto/41602

1970 - ITALY, REPUBLIC - The first TWA flight with a Boeing 747, TW85, Rome Fiumicino to New York. A cover with the special handstamp prepared for the occasion in a single example, which TWA presented to the Postal Museum of Rome. Duly flown, with the New York arrival postmark - Lotto/41603

16/7/1970 - ITALY - the first Alitalia flight with the Jumbo Jet Boeing 747, Milan Malpensa to New York - cover properly carried, with the arrival postmark of New York A.M.F. Kennedy - Lotto/41604

16/7/1970 - ITALY - the first Alitalia flight with the Jumbo Jet Boeing 747, Milan to New York - cover properly carried, with the arrival postmark of New York A.M.F. Kennedy - Lotto/41605

3/11/1970 ITALY - Sesto Calende to Orbetello postal flight. A genuine souvenir card together with a cover, both with the postmarks of the event, and carrying an original vignette issued in 1930 for the 40th anniversary of the Italy to Brazil transatlantic flight - Lotto/41606

4/4/1971 - ITALY - 25th Anniversary of the TWA postal service between Italy and the United States, carriage of a mail dispatch from Rome to Washington - cover with the Washington arrival postmark on the reverse - Lotto/41607

16/9/1971 - ITALY - first flight, B-747 TWA 844, Rome to Tel Aviv, cover flown through the post with the arrival postmark on the reverse - Lotto/41608

3/11/1971 - ITALY - inauguration of B 747 services to the Far East. Lufthansa first flight, Rome, Kuwait, Delhi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo - cover flown through the post with the Tokyo arrival postmark - Lotto/41609

17/6/1971 - AUSTRIA - the 25th anniversary of the first airmail link, Vienna to New York - cover properly flown with the special pictorial postmark for the occasion; New York arrival postmark on the reverse - Lotto/41610

22/2/1972 - ITALY - The Flight of Brotherhood, Milan to Entebbe. A DC 6 of the S.M.A.M., an aircraft of the Air Force General Staff, under the command of Colonel Enzo Carugno, carried 45 quintals of medicines and hospital equipment for Italian missionaries in northern Uganda. An aerogramme printed in 400 copies, of which this is No. 325 - Lotto/41611

2/5/1972 - SWITZERLAND - a special Swissair flight, Geneva to New York, made for the 25th anniversary of the Swiss North Atlantic service - cover properly postally used to the United States - Lotto/41612

14/5/1972 - VATICAN CITY - Coming from Rome, an Alitalia DC-8 made the first flight AZ 698 from Milan to Washington. This first link had been postponed by two weeks because of industrial action. A postal dispatch containing a Vatican packet of only 14 covers was carried through to its destination as normal - a cover with the Washington arrival postmark - Lotto/41614

17/5/1973 - ITALY - the first Alitalia flight with the three-engined Douglas DC-10/30 on the twice-weekly Rome, Nairobi, Johannesburg service - cover properly postally used with the South African arrival postmark of Johannesburg - Lotto/41615

18/5/1973 - SOUTH AFRICA - the first Alitalia flight with the three-engined Douglas DC-10/30 on the twice-weekly Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rome service - cover properly postally used with the Rome arrival postmark - Lotto/41616

7/10/1973 - ITALY - The Associazione Trasvolatori Atlantici, 40th anniversary of the North Atlantic Cruise. A cover from Rome to Chicago with the postmark " Fiumicino Aer. Roma 40 anniv. Volo Roma - Chicago ", duly postally used with the Chicago arrival postmark in red - Lotto/41617