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Indian Air Force: Diamond Jubilee – MiG-29 Fighter and Ilyushin Il-76 Transport, 1992 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
8 October 1992

Indian Air Force: Diamond Jubilee – MiG-29 Fighter and Ilyushin Il-76 Transport

A MiG-29 and an Il-76, for the Air Force’s diamond jubilee.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 8, 1992

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½ x 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit S. Surve

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1366 Stamp Number IN 1420 Yvert et Tellier IN 1164 Stanley Gibbons IN 1516

Themes Aircraft, Anniversaries and Jubilees, Aviation

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

A MiG-29 fighter above an Ilyushin Il-76 transport, both in Indian Air Force markings, with the words “Diamond Jubilee of Indian Air Force” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

MiG-29 and Il-76

India Post issued two stamps on 8 October 1992, ₹1 and ₹10, printed side by side, sixty years to the day after the Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932. This one shows two aircraft of the time. The MiG-29 fighter joined the Air Force in 1987. Its companion looks back to the first aircraft the Force flew. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.