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Tigers of the Sky: No. 1 Squadron, Indian Air Force, 1993 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
1 April 1993

Tigers of the Sky: No. 1 Squadron, Indian Air Force

A Wapiti biplane and the Tigers’ badge, for sixty years of the squadron.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue April 1, 1993

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1383 Stamp Number IN 1440 Yvert et Tellier IN 1181 Stanley Gibbons IN 1534

Themes Air Forces, Aircraft, Anniversaries and Jubilees, Aviation

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A Wapiti biplane in flight among white clouds, beside the squadron’s tiger badge, with the words “Tigers of the Sky” in Hindi and English and the years 1933–1993, on a ₹1 stamp.

No. 1 Squadron, the Tigers

India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 1 April 1993, sixty years to the day after No. 1 Squadron was raised at Karachi with Wapiti aircraft. It is the oldest squadron of the Indian Air Force. Lysanders presented by the citizens of Bombay earned it the name “Bombay Squadron”, and it served in the Burma campaign. It entered the jet age with Vampires, converted to Mystères in 1957, and flew strike and patrol missions for the liberation of Goa in 1961.