Thematic: Aviation

20/1/1936 NETHERLANDS - First flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin Lz 127 to South America. Cover franked with Dutch stamps (Cat. Unificato 135 + 145 + 146 x6), with the Rotterdam Calands 1 postmark plus the red Europe-South America flight mark, carried to Santiago de Chile - Lotto/42372 WE WELCOME OFFERS

13/8/1935 GERMANY - 10th voyage to South America, Rio de Janeiro. Card franked with a 1 mark Airmail (Cat. Unificato A35) plus a 10p. red (A28) and a pair of the 15p. (Cat. 544), with the postmark "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Europa Sudamerica" - Lotto/42371 WE WELCOME OFFERS

18/4/1935 GERMANY - 2nd voyage to South America, Rio de Janeiro. Cover franked with the 15, 50 and 100p. Airmail (Cat. Unificato A45/A49/A51), with an Arnsberg postmark and the red mark "Deutsche Luftpost Europa Sudamerika". On the reverse, Rio de Janeiro and Manha Rio postmarks - Lotto/42370 WE WELCOME OFFERS

9/7/1939 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz 130 to Leipzig. Postal card with added franking, cancelled "Frankfurt am Main" airport and Leipzig airport, addressed to Shanghai, China, via Siberia - Lotto/42387 WE WELCOME OFFERS

16/7/1939 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz 130 to Gorlitz. Card with a Frankfurt postmark and a Gorlitz arrival. (Among the flights undertaken over Germany by the Lz 130, the fifth, into eastern Saxony as far as Gorlitz, is worth recalling, since a special mail service was arranged for it.) Initialled L. Gazzi - Lotto/42388 WE WELCOME OFFERS

30/7/1939 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz. 130, the second to Kassel. Card with the Frankfurt postmark and the Kassel airport arrival postmark - Lotto/42389 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/6/1972 - ITALY - ROVIGO - the 1st aerophilatelic exhibition, "city of roses" - a cover with the special pictorial postmark - Lotto/42633

28/3/1973 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Italian Air Force, an extraordinary airmail despatch Frosinone/Roma Centocelle - on the reverse the postmark "Poste Italiane Comando Aeroporto F. Baracca Centocelle" - Lotto/42632

20/12/1970 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - PISA - a commemorative cover carried by helicopter for the 40th anniversary of the records set by the D'Ascanio helicopter in 1930 (a numbered cover, No. 283, an edition of 400 examples) Lotto/42631

1/8/1970 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - a pair of covers to Paris and Lisbon with the slogan postmark "1 Agosto 1970 inoltro per Via Aerea Senza Sopratassa della corrispondenza per L'europa" (from 1 August 1970, mail for Europe forwarded by air without surcharge), together with the Milan foreign airmail postmark - Lotto/42630

9/5/1970 - ITALY - 45th Anniversary of the experimental flights over Lake Como - Como/Bellagio mail flight carried by the Super Cub PA-18 I-Olmo floatplane, captain and pilot Pio Roncalli - numbered cover - Lotto/42629

17/10/1970 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - Legnago (VR), the special pictorial postmark for the fiftieth anniversary of the Rome-Tokyo Raid on a cover franked with the set issued for the occasion and postally used to Milan (on the reverse the postmark Milano Posta Aerea Estera) - Lotto/42627

3/6/1990 - ITALY - Cernobbio (CO), "Il Cielo in Mano" (The Sky in Hand), an exhibition on flight - the event's postcard with the special pictorial postmark - Lotto/42451

3/6/1990 - ITALY - Cernobbio (CO), "Il Cielo in Mano" (The Sky in Hand), an exhibition on flight - the event's postcard with the special pictorial postmark - Lotto/42450

26/8/1939 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz. 130 to Konigsberg. Picture postcard with the Frankfurt postmark. (The flight was suspended for technical reasons and the mail intended for it was forwarded overland.) (1 September 1939: the invasion of Poland.) - Lotto/42392 WE WELCOME OFFERS

20/8/1939 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz. 130 to Essen Mulheim. Picture postcard with the Frankfurt postmark and the Essen arrival. Initialled L. Gazzi - Lotto/42391 WE WELCOME OFFERS

30/7/1939 GERMANY - Second voyage of the airship Lz 130 to Kassel. Card with a Frankfurt postmark and a Kassel airport arrival, with a superb mixed franking including tete-beche values and German advertising labels with the effigy of Hindenburg - Lotto/42390 WE WELCOME OFFERS

22/3/1935 PARAGUAY - First flight of the Graf Zeppelin Lz 127, return flight. Cover franked with Paraguayan Airmail stamps, addressed to Hamburg, with the postmarks "Servicio Aereo Transoceanico Paraguay Europa" plus "Servizio Aereo Paraguay Condor Zeppelin Lufthansa" - Lotto/42369 WE WELCOME OFFERS

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

28/6/1972 - the inaugural Itavia flight Bergamo/Naples - a cover regularly postally used with the special Itavia postmark and Naples on arrival on the reverse - Lotto/41489