Honduras - Only Airmail Stamps

I was glancing through a Scott catalogue recently (Volume 3 G-I, 2015 edition) when I noticed something odd in Honduras stamps. In perusing the regular stamp section, I noticed that there was a 40 year gap in the regular stamp section. Scott 343 was issued in 1944 and Scott 344 was issued in 1984. I thought that surely there would have been a need for at least SOME stamps during that 40 year hiatus, but then I looked a little further on to the Airmail section and saw that Honduras continued issuing stamps during all those missing years but only designated as airmails, with either the words "aereo" or "correo aereo" printed on them, and therefore given a C prefix in Scott. And in fact Honduras has issued many more airmails than regular stamps over its entire stamp-producing history. The highest C-number in the 2015 catalogue is 1307 and the highest regular number is 392, and that was issued in 1999, so it looks like another hiatus in producing regular mail stamps. So this leads to my question: why only airmails? If all you're doing is mailing your gas bill or your telephone bill within the same city, why do you need an airmail stamp? Seems a bit of overkill to me. Any Honduras collectors in the forum who know the answer?

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I recall reading about this in Linn's Stamp News many years ago, but the details escape me at this point.

Thread bump.

Google "search" could not find post by member CJD on SCF

"Dated stamp on back of Honduras"

Lost forever?

Possibly not. Is this what you are looking for?

https://goscf.com/t/8557

Thanks Jill.
Same stamp, different thread, All is good.