Lets See Your Aviation Stamps

Spain
75th Anniversary of Spanish Aviation
April 26, 2001
The stamp set features C-295 Transport, Breguet 19A2, Dornier Plus Ultra, and Dornier Flying Boat. Aviation pioneers Ramón Franco (1896 - 1938), Eduardo González-Gallarza (1898 - 1986), and Rafael Llorente.

Bulgaria
Aviation
August 30, 1990
The stamp set features Airbus A 300, TY 204, Concorde, DC-9, NA-86, and Boeing 747.

Australia war savings stamp

Malaysia
Air Transportation in Malaysia
May 3, 2007
The stamp set features Shorts SC7 Skyvan, GAF N22 Nomad, de Havilland Canada DHC 7-110, Airspeed Consul, and Douglas DC-3.

I have the full set of proofs for the Nevis Spitfire planes but my phone has died so I only have 4 photos
I love seeing these planes at the local annual air show.

The 25 cent value of Singapore's 1955 definitive series depicts a Douglas DC-4M2 "Argonaut" aircraft. This was a civilian passenger plane. The military version, with a reinforced hull for carrying cargo, was the C-54.

I hope you enjoy this. I was visiting my daughter in Australia and she surprised me with a flea market packet she found in Bucharest. How thoughtful. 40 stamps in the packet and this was one of them.

This was issued in 1986 to commemorate the the 50th Anniversary of Prague to Moscow air services.

On the ground is an Airspeed AS 6 Envoy II - this was a British light, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Airspeed Ltd. in the 1930s at Portsmouth Aerodrome, Hampshire. This plane has an interesting history and I think is worth reading about. A bit of trivia, it was basically made of wood! with fabric covered control surfaces. Why on this stamp you might ask...... simple answer, CSA ordered 4 in 1937.

The other plane is an Ilyushin II-86. Again an interesting history to this Russian plane. It was the USSR's first wide-body and the world's second four-engined wide-body aircraft. It was designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in the 1970s. Showing this plane interests me because I can find no record of an Ilyushin 86 being in the CSA fleet. They had Ilyushin -12, -18 and -62 models I believe. Obviously I am missing something. Anyone know what?

Enjoy your aerophilately Michael

cddstamps:

The 1980 edition of Janes Encyclopedia of Aviation notes :... the airliner would be in Aeroflot service in time to carry visitors from Prague, (italics mine), Sofia, and Berlin to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow."

Given this statement and your research finding no Ilyushin-86s to CSA, perhaps, the aircraft on the stamp is an Aeroflot, not a CSA, airplane. While the image is too small to read on my screen, it appears to have the Aeroflot name in the right place on the fuselage.

Don

Hungary
History of Hungarian Aviation
March 14, 2002
Libelle, Hungarian Lloyd
March 20, 2003
Gerle 13, L-2 Roma

1931 Netherlands Indies Pattist flight. This stamp was only allowed to be used for this flight.

Serbia Air Force

Don, Many thanks.. you are spot on..It is in Aeroflot livery I missed the obvious by not looking closely Regards and thanks Michael

It's amazing how few images have been posted of stamps with the ill-fated de Havilland Comet - the world's first commercial jet transport aircraft. So here is one:



But the Comet lived on - at least in part. Many stamps have been posted showing the Sud Aviation Caravelle. Sud Aviation licensed the nose section of the Comet from de Havilland when designing the Caravelle. Here are comparision images:

COMET:


CARAVELLE:

Chile
First Flights in Chile
August 9, 2013
Batuco - Aircraft designed and built in Chile
Voisin Celular
De Havilland DG-60G Gipsy Moth - First Aeropostal route Santiago to Arico
Junkers R42 - Air route opening Puerto Montt to Estrecho de Magallanes
Bristol M1C - First flight crossing the Andes at the highest point
Bleriot XI - First Military flight in Chile
Let L-13 Blanik - First Glider flight across the Andes
Bell 47 D-1 Sioux
Vought Sikorsky OS2U-2 - First flight in Antarctica
PBY-5A Catalina Manu-tara - First flight to Easter Island