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Air India First Flight Covers
The Legacy Continues.
Air India First Flight Covers
The Legacy Continues.
New additions in Air India & Tata flight covers
New additions are made regularly, please keep coming back
Air India New additions
May 2023
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March 2023
JRD Tata signed and dated FDC Ahmedabad cancel.
Ahmedabad was a Fuel stop during JRD Tata's first flight from Karachi to Bombay.
Indian Airlines Bombay Karachi first flight
Jan 2023
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July 2022
1956 Air India first flight cover from Germany for the Rome Sydney Inaugural flight.
1958 AirIndia first flight cover from Germany from the Delhi Moscow flight.
JRD Tata signed and dated FDC.
Added a Cover which has all the cancellations on a single cover, also an International Eucharistic Congress brochure which was made only for the distinguished delegates stamped 7th December 1964.
Click here to view the complete brochure and the Pope's visit FFC's.
1937 Tata FFC from Ahmedabad to Cutch-Mandavi
1955 Air India FFC to Tokyo and intermediate stop Hong Kong
Indian Airlines ffc from Bangladesh to Calcutta
Fisherman- Shanti Dave
June 2022
Earliest known suggestions and complaint envelopes
Indian Airlines first flight to Karachi from New Delhi
A nice Greeting card featuring the Maharajah.
Bhuj Trichinopoly
Trichinopoly Karachi
Inflight booklet for Children contains 500 miles of entertainment.
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8th June 1948 posted from Calcutta, a 12 annas stamp comet cancel dated 6th June 1948
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New Air India flight cover found flown 6th April 1968 Kuwait to Geneva
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1961 Private ffc in monocolor
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1980 FFC flown to Calcutta to Singapore missed the cachet.(cachet shown below)
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1937 FFC flown both sides
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Air India Menu
May 2022
1937 Tata Flight covers for addition of Bhuj as a stop.
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Hand Made fan given to First class passengers
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Type 1A covers to various Foreign destinations
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Type 2 covers to various Foreign destinations
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Type 3C covers to various Foreign destinations
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Type 3A covers to and from various Foreign destinations
January 2022
Lot of new collectibles added to Publicity Ephemera and postcards page please do visit and enjoy!!!
This is a new variety found with Genève stamps.
There do exist Bombay-Genève, New Delhi-Genève and Genève-Bombay with Liechtenstein stamps.
December 2021
It gives me great pleasure to announce we have come across a lot of information regarding flights and pilots, Courtesy: Percy Jokhi.
Do check the names updated
Che Guevara signed Air India photo
Sent in 54, flown in 55
Another example of Zurich Bombay Air India Flight Cover
Some Old 1950's Air India photo's
October 2021
It gives me great pleasure to show you here some new unseen and unknown flight covers. We have also found a 1953 Bombay Dusseldorf cover which was thought does not exist. Keep visiting this page to view it in January 2022.
Seen for the first time a intermediary flight cover for the return New York Bombay flight, via Frankfurt.
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A private cover example of this 1956 Rome Sydney flight
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Another great example of this 1955 Bombay Sydney flight sent from Dusseldorf, earlier one was addressed to Cairo, this cover to Sydney
1932 Bellary Ahmedabad Tata flight cover.
1935 Tata flight covers both Bombay Calcutta and Calcutta Bombay via Raipur and Tatanagar.
1935 Bombay Trivandrum Tata flight cover
1937 Tata flight cover to and from Bhuj, Anjar, Mandra, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Hyderabad.
Madras Trichinopoly Colombo
December 2020
November 2020
Another great example of this 1956 Praha Bombay via Delhi flight
ERROR: Green missing, the QUTUB MINAR is also missing.
ERROR: BAGHDAD- BOMBAY stamp instead of BOMBAY BAGHDAD
Private FFC- BOMBAY BRISBANE via SYDNEY
ERROR: RUDDER BROKEN example
August 2020
Another great example of this 1956 Praha Bombay via Delhi flight, got a smudged Bombay arrival stamp.
June 2020
January 2020
November 2019
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October 2019
This is the route for Geneva Sydney via Singapore
Found one more variety with UN stamps
Tata Airlines freight label
25th Jan 1951 Bombay Tokyo- signed cover
19th April 1960 Bombay London Signed Capt Rajwade
July 2019
Type 4: Coasters added to collection
A matchlabel and a matchbox
