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An early biplane in flight, recalling the first airmail flight of 1911, on the ₹20 stamp.
A Hundred Years of Civil Aviation
India Post issued four stamps, three at ₹5 and one at ₹20, and a ₹35 miniature sheet on 14 March 2012 for the centenary of civil aviation in India. On 18 February 1911 the French pilot Henri Pequet, in India for an air show, flew about 6,500 letters from a polo field at Allahabad to Naini, some ten kilometres away, in a Humber-Sommer biplane: the first official airmail flight. The letters were marked “First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition Allahabad 1911”. The stamps run from an early biplane to the airports, control towers and aircraft of today. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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