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 94 - 2023

Airpost Journal # 1111

  • A Pictorial Tour of Aerophilately 2022
  • Netherlands Dispatch on Inaugural Pan Am Trans-Atlantic Flight / Jim Hester
  • The BEP Stamp History Reports / Joe Kirker
  • Dornier DoX Zurich to Alterrhein in 1932 /Bill Woytowich and Tom Reyman
  • More on the Crash of M.R.A. Cavalier / John Pare
January 2023 # 1111

Airpost Journal # 1112

  • Sir Alan Cobham's First Flights in the United States / Schalk de Klerk
  • Patchogue to Fire Island in 1929 / Tom Reyman
  • The Way Home from Fisherman's Lake / John Wilson and John Allen
  • Parcel Post Joins Airmail / Joe Kirker
  • What Happened to the Covers ? / Cheryl Ganz
February 2023 # 1112

Airpost Journal # 1113

  • Eastbound Airmail from the U.S. to Africa and Beyond in 1942 / John Wilson
  • 1936 British RAF Goodwill Flight / Tom Reyman
  • Postally Used Precancels : The 1918 Airmail Issues / Joe Kirker
  • Woman Soar in National Air Races / Carrolyn Green
March 2023 # 1113

Airpost Journal # 1114

  • The Aborted Takeoff of March 20, 1937 / Richard D. Martorelli
  • V-Mail from Liberia / John Wilson
  • 1918 Inaugural Airmail : The 1920 Anniversary / Joe Kirker
  • First Airplane Mail from Hartford / Steve Turechek.
  • Zeppelin ZR3 Los Angeles and USS Patoka : US Rarities and Rates for the Bermuda Flights 1925 / Cheryl R. Ganz
  • More Foreign Dispatches / Bill Thrower
April 2023 # 1114

Airpost Journal # 1115

  • Transpacific Cover Society and AAMC Flihjt #1200 / Larry Weirather
  • More on Sir Alan Cobham / Andrew Mrozowski
  • A Tale of Three Covers : Switzerland or San Francisco / Joe Kirker
  • Vox Populi / David S. Ball
May 2023 # 1115

Airpost Journal # 1116

  • Graf Zeppelin visits Chicago / Joel Dryer
  • The First Commercial Flights in Bolivia / Marcelo Beltran
  • June 12, 1939 Imperial Airways Centurion Crash, Part 1 / Brian Peace & Ken Sanford
  • Recycling Aerograms ? / Don Lussky
June 2023 # 1116

Airpost Journal # 1117

  • Saluting Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker / Joel Dryer
  • June 12, 1939 Imperial Airways Centurion Crash, Part 2 / Brian Peace & Ken Sanford
  • Aero Philatelist News : The Black Book / Joe Kirker
  • "By Balloon over Africa" with Jan Boesman / David M. Frye
  • Clara Bow - Film Icon and Stamp Collector ? / Thomas Richards
July 2023 # 1117

Airpost Journal # 1118

  • Canton Island 1938 / Larry Weirather
  • AM81 : Not Just Another Pretty Souvenir / Steve Turechek
  • The C3 'Grounded Plane' Variety, Part 1 / Joe Kirker
August 2023 # 1118

Airpost Journal # 1119

  • Happy Birthday, AAMS ! / Joe Kirker
    FAM 22 Double-Censored Belgian Congo Cover / Jim Hester
    Arund the World with Howard Hughes / Andrew Mrozowski
September 2023 # 1119

Airpost Journal # 1120

  • LATI Transition to LATI Substitute : the Effects on German Airmail / John Wilson
  • Luke Christopher, Coast Guard Aviator / Major Steve Turechek
  • The C3 'Grounded Plane' Variety, Part 2 / Joe Kirker
October 2023 # 1120

Airpost Journal # 1121

  • U.S. Airmail Rates 1910-1934, Part 1: Pioneer Period 1910-1916 / James O’Bannon
  • Pre-War North Trans-Atlantic Sea Route had Major Airmail Significance. / Richard Saundry
  • Farmer Saves Flyer: A Crash Cover from 1929 / Mike Wilson
  • The C3 ‘Grounded Plane’ Variety, Part 3 / Joe Kirker
  • Mail Transfer from Airship to Train / William E. Grigg
  • Aerolíneas Argentinas’ 1989 Transpolar Flight / Enrique Setaro
  • First Airmail to American Samoa / Schalk de Klerk
November 2023 # 1121

Airpost Journal # 1122

  • Eggs for Breakfast ... AGAIN (?) / Joe Kirker
  • A Parcel Post Christmas / Steven J. Turechek
  • U.S. Airmail Rates 1910-1934, Part 2 : Governmental Period / James O'Bannon
December 2023 # 1122