Airmail Covers
Overseas Flights
1931, 17 April / backstamp
Acceptances of N.Z. Mail: Experimental Darwin – London Airmail: Australian National Airways / Qantas / Imperial Airways: New Zealand – Burma
1931, 17 April / backstamp
Acceptances of N.Z. Mail: Experimental Darwin – London Airmail: Australian National Airways / Qantas / Imperial Airways: New Zealand – Calcutta
1931, 25 April / backstamp
Acceptances for New Zealand via Second Experimental Air Mail England-Australia-[N.Z.] – Imperial Airways / Qantas / Australian National Airways: Calcutta – New Zealand
1931, 25 April / backstamp
Acceptances for New Zealand via Second Experimental Air Mail England-Australia-[N.Z.] – Imperial Airways / Qantas / Australian National Airways: Singapore – New Zealand
1931, 12 November
New Zealand Acceptances for First “All-Australian” Air Mail [N.Z.] – Australia – England Christmas Air Mail – Air Travel / Australian National Airways Limited
1932, 30 June / backstamp
First Regular New Zealand Acceptances for – Persia, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt via the Karachi – London Air Route by Imperial Airways Limited: New Zealand – Egypt
1932, 15 July / backstamp
Imperial Airways Limited First New Zealand Acceptance from Wellington via Karachi – Cairo – Cape Town Services to Africa: New Zealand – South Africa
1934, 17 February
“Faith in Australia” first Kaitaia – Sydney return trans-Tasman flight
1934, 29 March
“Southern Cross” 6th Crossing: Sydney – Kaitaia
1934, 11-12 April
VH-UXX “Faith in Australia”: Sydney – New Plymouth trans-Tasman flight
1934, 24 July
VH-UXX “Faith in Australia”: Sydney – Port Moresby – Lae
1938, 2 January
Auckland – San Francisco Survey Flight
1938, 21-27 November
Crash of Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-AETW “Calpurnia” (Captain E.E. Atwood).
1940, 30 April-2 May
Tasman Empire Airways: Auckland – Sydney and vice versa
1940, 30 April-2 May
Tasman Empire Airways: Sydney – Auckland
1941, 11 November
Return Trans-Pacific Flight: Auckland – Suva
1944, 24 August
Civilian aerogram: New Zealand – Gibraltar
1947, 25 April-3 May
Auckland – Vancouver – Auckland
1950, 3 October
Tasman Empire Airways Ltd.: Wellington – Sydney and return
1950, 18-20 December
Sydney – Christchurch and return
1951, 27 December
Inauguration of the Coral Route by Teal
1953, 2 June
New Zealand – Australia – England Coronation Air Mail & return
1953, 1 September
Canterbury International Air Race
1953, 1 October
The London – Christchurch Canterbury Centennial Air Race
1958, 14 October
30th Anniversary of First New Zealand – Australia Trans-Tasman Flight
1983, 21 February
Auckland – Pitcairn Islands Air Drop
1984, 11 April
50th Anniversary of First Official trans-Tasman flight
1985, 19 March
Auckland – Pitcairn Islands Air Drop
1985, 29 August
Special “Stampex” Air Mail – Christchurch – McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
1987, 26 February
Auckland – Pitcairn Islands Air Drop
1987, 23-28 March
Singapore – Christchurch – the Last Great Air Race
1987, 28 October
Auckland – Dallas Fort Worth
1987, 30-31 October-2 November
Auckland to Frankfurt – Am-Main and vice versa
1988, 10 September
Sydney – Christchurch
1988, 13 October
60th Anniversary of Charles Kingsford
1988, 6 November
Auckland – Denpasar, Bali service
1988, 7 November
Singapore – Christchurch
1989, 27 March
Tokyo – Christchurch
1989, 2 April
Christchurch – Perth direct service
1989, 12 April
Christchurch – Sydney – London Concorde flight
1992, 7 August
Auckland – Pitcairn Islands Air Drop