ISSUE 128 - August 6, 2021 - Stamp News Online Magazine

National Aviation Day in the U.S., August 19th

In celebration of National Aviation Day on August 19th we are showing a collection of Air Mail Stamps and Stamps with Aircraft. This national holiday was established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939 designating the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday as National Aviation Day. Via the web we search out links associated with the collection that we find of interest and include them here for you. Many links contain interesting historical tidbits about the stamps themselves or the historical significance represented by the imagery on the stamp. We hope you will enjoy this collection!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail_stamp
http://www.livefromsiliconvalley.com/airmail/airmail.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_airmail_stamps

Wilbur and Orville Wright 6 cent Air Mail Stamp
USA
http://wrightbrothers.info/
http://www.nps.gov/wrbr/index.htm

Orville Wright signature on 1932 cover
USA
Cover dedicating the Wright Memorial in Kitty Hawk, autographed by Orville.

37 cent US postage stamp, First Flight Wright Brothers 1903
USA - First Flight, The Wright Brothers 1903
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/wright_stamp.pdf

2 cent U.S. Postage Stamp International Civil Aeronautics Conference
USA
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/aero-conference-1.html

32 cent U.S. Postage Stamp Kitty Hawk 1903
USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty-hawk.jpg
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm

5 cent U.S. Air Mail Postage Stamp
USA

80 cent U.S. Air Mail Postage Stamp
USA

37 cent Postage stamps, F6F Hellcat, B-29 Superfortress, P-80 Shooting Star, P-47 Thunderbolt
USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-50_Superfortress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_P-47_Thunderbolt

Amelia Earhart Stamp Mexico 1935
Mexico - Amelia Earhart 1935

24 cent U.S. Postage Stamp, Jenny
USA

Inverted Jenny
USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny

6 cent U.S. Air Mail Postage Stamp
USA

6 cent U.S. Postage Air Mail Stamp, Alexandria Virginia Bicentennial
USA

USA - Lindbergh Air Mail Cover
http://www.stampauctionnetwork.com/v/v62486.cfm

10 cent U.S Lindbergh Air Mail postage stamp

USA - Lindbergh Air Mail Stamp, Issued June 11, 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

Canada
http://www.arpinphilately.com/products/stamps/canada_stamps/canada-b-o-e/canada-stamps-c-air-mail/index.html?Pageno=1

3 cent Puerto Rico Air Mail Postage Stamp

Puerto Rico
http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13892
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Puerto_Rico

Brazi

Poland

1937 Cover carried on the Hindenburg with stamps that included a Hiltler miniature sheet and in the lower right a stamp honoring Count von Zeppelin.

Germany

A 1937 cover carried on the Hindenburg with stamps that include a Hitler miniature
sheet and in the lower right a stamp honoring Count von Zeppelin, all cancelled by “On Board” postmarks dated “5.5. 1937”—the day before the explosion and fire. The black cancels celebrate Hitler’s 48th birthday, on April 20, 1937.

Spain Air Mail Postage Stamp
Spain

Denmark Air Mail Postage Stamp
Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail_stamps_of_Denmark

Philappines Air Mail Postage Stamp
Philippines

China
http://www.michaelrogersinc.com/articles/chinasairmail.html

Greece

Air Mail Postage - French Southern and Antarctic Territory

France

An unusual example of Air Mail Postage, from the French Southern and Antarctic Territory, showing stamps issued between 1959 and 1963. It's ironic to have early
Air Mail stamps featuring a creature that cannot fly. Nowadays they use all sorts of
themes and subjects on airmails but the early ones usually had planes or aviators...
some times planes flying over landmarks.

France

This is a French post card celebrating a flight by Count Charles de Lambert above
the Eiffel Tower on October 18, 1909. Note that it was in a Wright Flyer, but not a
flight by the Wright Brothers. The card was later used, on October 18, 1959, with a
50th anniversary commemorative cancel. The stamps do not relate to the event . . .
they are two test pilots, Charles Goujon and Col. Constantin Rozanoff.

France
http://www.livefromsiliconvalley.com/airmail/french.html

Iceland Air Mail Postage Stamp
Iceland

South Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

Republique Gabonaise Air Mail Postage Stamp
Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Gabon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon