Thematic: Aviation

29/5/1970 - SAN MARINO - helicopter mail from San Marino to Riccione for the "Aerophilex" event, an express cover sent to Milan - Lotto/41655

4/3/1972 - ITALY - the Cremona-Parma flight, a special postmark on a cover to Cremona - Lotto/41654

31-8/10-9/1973 - GERMANY - a special flight Leipzig/Milan for the Autumn Fair - a cover regularly flown to Milan - Lotto/41653

5/10/1972 - ITALY - airmail carriage by helicopter for "Aerophil 72", numbered cover duly flown to Viterbo and returned to Livorno on the Viterbo/Livorno return flight - "Lotto(41652"

20/10/1974 - ITALY - Naples, Aerophilately Day, official cover with the special pictorial postmark and the poster stamp of the event - Lotto/41651

7/12/1972 - VATICAN - a special flight, Lucca to Florence, with Vatican and Italian franking - Enrico Squaglia airport, cover carried aboard a Cessna FA150, I-FFSZ, pilot commander R. Aglietti - Lotto/41650

29/3/1960 - LUXEMBOURG - Echternach rocket mail, with a courier sent direct to the Netherlands - a cover with a special signed poster stamp - Lotto/41648

12/3/1973 - ITALY - the special Interflug postal flight Milan-Leipzig, a cover regularly flown with the arrival postmark of Leipzig - Lotto/41647

15/5/1962 - SOUTH AFRICA - the inaugural Lufthansa flight, Johannesburg to Khartoum, Sudan - cover properly flown - Lotto/41646

22/1/1976 - STATE OF BAHRAIN - The inaugural Concorde flight - a special postmark on an aerogramme issued for the occasion - very handsome and uncommon - Lotto/41628

21/1/1976 - GREAT BRITAIN - The first commercial Concorde flight, London to Bahrain - a British aerogramme, overprinted and numbered (2187). Flight BA 300, actual flying time 3,37 hours, of which 1,55 supersonic - Captain Norman V. Todd, co-pilot Brian J. Calvert, engineer officer John Lidiart. (The British postal administration did not authorise the official carriage of mail, but an unspecified number of letters travelled as private baggage accompanying the passengers.) - Lotto/41627

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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