American Air Mail Society

The American Air Mail Society publishes a monthly magazine, the Airpost Journal.

An archive of "cover and context" of earlier Airpost Journals is here:


Volume 89 - 2018

Airpost Journal # 1051

  • The Centennial of the Italian Fliht Turin-Rome-Turin / Fiorenzo Longhi
  • Between the Listings / Matt Heller
  • A Circuitous Route / Harry Chamberlain
  • AEF Treasure Found / Bob Baltze II
  • It's All in the Delivery / Joe Kirker
  • Addendum to 'Czech it Out' / Steve White
  • Brazil : The War Years Proof and Errors / William Kriebel
January 2018 # 1051

Airpost Journal # 1052

  • Double Atlantic Rates from Iraq / Bob Wilcsek, John Wilson
  • Bisects in the Air / Matt Heller
  • 1917 Naples-Palermo-Naples Flight / Fiorenzo Longhi
  • A favorite Cover / Patrick A. Walters
  • Moving the Mail in a War Zone / Harry Chamberlain
  • First International Sky Train Flight / Bill Woytowich
  • A Mysterious Mixed Franking from Columbia to USA in 1939 / Thoma P. Myers
February 2018 # 1052

Airpost Journal # 1053

  • Brazil : The War Years Proof and Errors, Part 2 / William Kriebel
  • More Mauck ! / Matt Heller
  • German State Visit to Italy in 1938 / Tom Reyman
  • 1944 Registered Airmail Cover to FDR from Lima, Peru / Paul M. Holland
  • First U.S. Rocket Mail Flight 1936 / Bill Woytowich
  • The Stuttgart Connection Question / Stephen White
  • A Favorite Cover / Larry Nelson
March 2018 # 1053

Airpost Journal # 1054

  • Postmaster Signed First Flight Favor Covers to India and Palestine / Paul M. Holland
  • An overweight Cover / Daniele Fonsato
  • Around and Around TRip / Tom Cottrell and Jim Graue
  • Liebenau bei Graz Revisited / Stephan White
  • 1936 U.S. to Mexico : First International Rocket Flight / Bill Woytowich
  • Brazil : The War Years Proof and Errors, Part 3 / William Kriebel
April 2018 # 1054

Airpost Journal # 1055

  • Airmail Launched on an Exceptional Day / Kellen Diamanti and Deborah Fisher
  • Recalculating ... / Russell "Rusty" Moore
  • Money for Airmail : How it Began / James O'Bannon
  • Special Postmarks Commemorate Centenary / Richard Porcelli
  • William Robey, the Jenny Invert and Beyond / Joe Kirker
  • Jenny ! I Wrote the Book / George Amick
  • The U.S. 1918 Jenny Stamp : So Many Firsts, Continued / Joe Kirkeron
May 2018 # 1055

Airpost Journal # 1056

  • TO 1350 - American Export Airlines Challenges Pan Am Supremacy / James Hester
  • Fascinating backstamps / Dan Gribbin
  • Aerophilately Sometimes Just Rolls Down the Runway at You / Harry Chamberlain
  • The Ever-Dynamic 101s / Joe Kirker
  • 1935 Rocket Mail from Queensland, Australia / Bill Woytowich
June 2018 # 1056

Airpost Journal # 1057

  • Do You Own a Hammelman FFC ? / Jerry A. Katz
  • Brazil : The War Years Proofs and Errors - Part 4 / William Kriebel
  • The Bechuanaland Beacon / Joe Kirker
  • Where's the Documentation ? / Richard Saundry
  • A Trio of AAMS Convention Covers / Tom Reyman
  • Inexpensive Mexican Covers Can Yield Postal History Stories / Stephen Reinhard
July 2018 # 1057

Airpost Journal # 1058

  • All Dressed Up with No Place to Fly / Bob Baltzell
  • Those Who Died in Service / Joe Kirker
  • Brazil : The War Years Proofs and Errors - Part 5 / William Kriebel
  • The Canceled FAM Flight that Flew / Matt Heller
  • National Air Mail Week C23 Perforation Freak / Steve Swain
August 2018 # 1058

Airpost Journal #1059

  • The Mail must get Through : Trial in the Desert / John Wilson
  • Brazil : The War Years Proofs and Errors, Part 6 / William Kriebel
  • Pilot Autographs : Another CAM-Related Source / Matt Heller
  • 1936 Special Event Airmail Covers to FDR / Paul M. Holland
  • San Marino Covers on the Graf Zeppelin 2nd 1932 South America Flight / Daniele Fonsato
  • A Crash Cover 'Wannabe' / Robert J. Horn
  • Inter-Island Airways, Ltd : a Query / Arthur H. Groten, M.D.
  • Rare Usage of C46 / Steve Turechek
September 2018 # 1059

Airpost Journal # 1060

  • Which Way Did She Go ? / David S. Ball
  • Airmail Weekend in College Park, Maryland / A. D. Jones
  • A Heavyweight Cover / Jack Forbes
  • U.S. Manned Rocket Plane Flights - Part 1 / Beatrice Bachmann
  • Mexico Airmail to the U.S. was Not Always the Fastest Way / Stephen Reinhard
  • Unlisted Cachet on Round-Trip FAM 5 Cover / Matt Heller
October 2018 # 1060

Airpost Journal # 1061

  • Beware Bogus Romanian Internal Airmail Covers / Richard Saundry
  • U.S. Manned Rocket Plane Flights, Part 2 / Beatrice Bachmann
  • USA to Germany via Britain at the Beginning of World War II / Chris Hargreaves and John Symons
  • Unlisted Cachet Color for FAM 35-1 / Matt Heller
  • Postal Service in Mexico was Once Quick and Efficient / Stephan Reinhard
  • History Behind a World War II Cover / Steve B. Davis
November 2018 # 1061

Airpost Journal # 1062

  • Christmas 1934 : A Canadian Airmail Cover sent to FDR / Paul Holland
  • Is Christmas Too Commercialized ? / Steve Turechek
  • U.S. Manned Rocket Plane Flights, Part 3 / Beatrice Bachmann
  • More About the New Ulm Cover / Jamie O'Bannon
  • The Terminology : Ambulance Cover / John Wilson
December 2018 # 1062