Thematic: Aviation

27/4/1954 - ITALY, REPUBLIC - The first helicopter link from Milan to Turin - a cover franked with the stamp issued for the occasion (Cat. Sassone 738), with the travelling post office postmark " Amb. Torino/Milano " plus a slogan postmark and the postmark of the Milan Fair - Lotto/47774

29/5/1970 - SAN MARINO/RICCIONE - a cover franked with stamps of San Marino carried by helicopter, with the postmarks of Riccione and of San Marino - Lotto/47703

4/3/1972 - ITALY - cover carried aboard the "Biplano Buker JU 131 1 Drak" biplane, pilot Commander Alcide Leoni, from Parma airport to Cremona airport for the "Mostra nazionale di Aerofilatelia Cremona 72" (the Cremona 72 national aerophilatelic exhibition) - Lotto/47702

29/3/1973 - ITALY - the 50th anniversary of the Air Force (Aeronautica Militare), a slogan postmark on a cover to Florence - Lotto/47701

3/9/1972 - ITALY - Mantua Aviation Week, free balloon flight (postponed to 10 September owing to adverse weather) - numbered cover, postally used, with the postmark of Ceresara (MN) - Lotto/47700

1913 KINGDOM OF ITALY - A printed subscription document in aid of the "Circuito di Idro-Aeroplani per il Gran Premio Dei Laghi", the seaplane circuit for the Grand Prix of the Lakes at Como, dated 1913. Unused - Lotto/LBF817

4/11/1975 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - Milan, Aerophilately Day, the official postcard sent to Florence - Lotto/42748

26/10/1975 - ITALY, REPUBLIC - PISA - a pictorial postmark carrying the profile of the helicopter built by Corradino D'Ascanio, which in 1930 took the international records for height, duration and distance, marked the celebration organised by the Faculty of Engineering of Pisa. On 26 October the helicopter AB204 EI 236 of the Folgore paratroopers carried a dispatch from S. Giusto airport, parachuted onto the military school of Pisa - a group of 2 covers with special postmarks - Lotto/42747

28-29/6/1975 - ITALY - Palermo, 27th Sicily Air Rally, numbered cover carried aboard competition aircraft No. 24, pilot Francesco Agnello - Lotto/42746

2-9/4/1975 - ITALY, REPUBLIC, AND VATICAN - The air twinning for the Holy Year, Frosinone and Loreto: a pair of large covers for the inauguration of the airport church - Lotto/42745

26/5/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - Guidonia (RM), the 50th anniversary of the first Aerial Observation course - the official cover with the special postmark for the Guidonia-Latina flight - Lotto/42729

27/5/1967 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the fiftieth anniversary of the first postal flight Rome-Turin - an airmail cover with a special postmark and, on the reverse, the arrival postmark "Torino Posta Aerea B" - Lotto/42639

1/12/1938 GERMANY - Airship Lz. 30, voyage over the Sudetenland. Card with the Frankfurt postmark "Flug und Luftschiffhafen" and those of Reichenberg 2/12/38 and Schluckenau (today Sluknov, Czechoslovakia) - Lotto/42386 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/12/1938 GERMANY - Airship Lz. 30, inaugural voyage over the Sudetenland. Card with the Frankfurt postmark and the Reichenberg arrival postmark. (After the tragic end of the Hindenburg, a modern and perfected airship was built, the Graf Zeppelin Lz. 130, which began the first voyage of its short career with a flight over Czechoslovak territory as far as Reichenberg, now renamed Liberec.) - Lotto/42385 WE WELCOME OFFERS

8/7/1938 GERMANY - Official card with the special Friedrichshafen postmark for the centenary of the birth of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the airship. Very fine and uncommon - Lotto/42384 WE WELCOME OFFERS

3/10/1936 NETHERLANDS - Tenth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Cover franked with the 12.5 cent. (Cat. Unificato 287), addressed to New York, with an Assen (Netherlands) postmark and the New York arrival - Lotto/42381 WE WELCOME OFFERS

26/9/1936 GERMANY - Ninth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Registered cover to New York franked with the Hindenburg Airmail set (Cat. Unificato A55/A56), with the Frankfurt postmark and the New York arrival - Lotto/42380 WE WELCOME OFFERS

17/9/1936 GERMANY - Eighth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Registered cover to Lakewood, Ohio, franked with the 75p. Hindenburg Airmail (Cat. Unificato A56), with the Frankfurt postmark - Lotto/42379 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/8/1936 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz 129 Hindenburg to Berlin for the Olympic Games. Cover with the postmark "Frankfurt am Main Flug und Luftschiffhafen" and, on the reverse, a Berlin postmark. (In the middle of a heavy storm, the airship began its flight on 1 August 1936 for the opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin. On its arrival at Tempelhof airport in Berlin it was greeted by all the athletes taking part in the opening ceremony.) Lotto/42378 WE WELCOME OFFERS

8-9/5/1936 GERMANY - First voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. A group of 2 postcards to New York franked with Hindenburg Airmail stamps, with the on-board postmark for the last Atlantic crossing (8/5/1936) and the on-board postmark for the day of arrival in New York, 9/5/1936 - Lotto/42375 WE WELCOME OFFERS