Aerophilately

The scope of aerophilately includes:

• airmail postage stamps, both official and unofficial (see list of US airmail postage here)
• other types of labels (such as airmail etiquettes)
• postal documents transmitted by air
• postal markings related to air transport
• rates and routes, particularly first flights and other "special" flights
• mail recovered from aircraft accidents and other incidents (crash covers)

While most of the study of airmail assumes transport by fixed-wing aircraft, the fields of balloon mail, dirigible mail, zeppelin mail, missile mail, and rocket mail are active subspecialties. Astrophilately, the study of mail in space, is a related area.

International Federation of Aerophilatelic Societies, (FISA), is the umbrella organization for aerophilately though aerophilatelists have formed a number of organizations around the world; many of them put out a variety of specialized publications. Federation Internationale de Philatelie (FIP) also maintains a commission.[1]

• Airmail
• Airmail stamps of Denmark
• Airmails of the United States
• Fitzgerald Collection
• List of United States airmail stamps
• Scott Collection A collection of British internal airmails.
• Seymour Collection A collection relating to the de Havilland Comet.

• Richard McP. Cabeen, Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting (Collectors Club, 1979), pp. 207–221
• Cheryl Ganz, ed. Collecting Air Mail (American Air Mail Society)
• American Air Mail Catalogue (AAMS, 6th ed. 1998)
• Baldwin, N.C. (1947). British Air Mails 1784-1946. Sutton Coldfield, UK): Francis J. Field Ltd.
• William Victor Kriebel, A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil (AAMS)
• William J. Murphy, Irish Airmail 1919-1990 (Irish Airmail Society, 1996)
• Örjan, Lüning (1978). Luftpostens historia i Norden - The history of airmail in Scandinavia. Stockholm: Sveriges Filatelist-Forbund.
• Kronstein, Dr. Max (1978). Pioneer Airpost Flights of The World 1830-1935. Washington D. C.: American Air Mail Society.
• Thomassen, Egil H. (1998). Norwegian Air Mail. Oslo: Norsk Filatelistforbund. ISBN 82-90272-69-3.
• Newall, Alexander S. (1985). British External Air Mails until 1934. London: Kingfisher Press. ISBN 0-9510749-0-3.
• Proud, Edward B. (1991). The Postal History of British Airmails. Heathfield, East Sussex: Proud-Bailey Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-872465-72-2.
• Gérard Collot and Alain Cornu, Ligne Mermoz, catalog of French airmail flight covers, 1919-1940

• FIP Commission for Aerophilately
• Air Mail Society of New Zealand
• American Air Mail Society
• British Air Mail Society
• Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Aérophilatéliques
• Irish Airmail Society
• Metropolitan Air Post Society
• Aerophilately Resources