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 91 - 2020

Airpost Journal # 1075

  • The Aerophilatelic Legacy of the Inter-American Escadrille in Cuba
  • Boeing's Iconic 747 turns 50
  • Post-Colonial Airmail Etiquettes on Mail from Tanzania, part 1.
  • Aéropostale Again !
  • Brazilian Madness 1934
  • More "Condor" Etiquettes
  • Pilot-Autographed FAM 27 Cover.
January 2020 # 1075

Airpost Journal # 1076

  • Airmail Labels Used in Cyprus During the King George VI Period, Part 1
  • United Kingdom to Liberia : Some Things Never Change
  • Post-Colonial Airmail Etiquettes on Mail from Tanzania, Part 2
  • Endurance Record Autopgraphed Cover
  • Misdirected Airmail and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • The Price Drops / David S. Ball
  • 'The Shortest Airmail Route Ever Flown'
February 2020 # 1076

Airpost Journal # 1077

  • 'Lati Substitute' Flight through San Juan : Connecting the Dots
  • Airmail Auxiliary Markings on Mail from Post-Colonial Tanzania
  • Airmail Labels Used in Cyprus During the King George VI Period, Part 2
  • Collecting Aviation Advertising Meter Covers
March 2020 # 1077

Airpost Journal # 1078

  • Bob Buck Jr.'s Record 1931 Flight
  • 'Lati Substitute' : Not Always According to Plan
  • June 1935 Midway Island Survey Flight Covers : A Census, Stories and Questions
  • An Elusive Air France Cover with a Twist
  • 'The Shortest Airmail Route Ever Flown' : An Update
  • 1931 Airmail Cover Sent to FDR from Quito, Ecuador
  • Four Sheets to thebWind
April 2020 # 1078

Airpost Journal # 1079

  • World War II Hawaiian 'Clipper Pack' Airmail Covers
  • Greetings from Dalton
  • Unusually Franked 'Return to Sender' Cover to Switzerland
  • Recollections of a Bermuda Censor
May 2020 # 1079

Airpost Journal # 1080

  • Free Jewish Military Mail after World War II
  • Inter-Island Airways
June 2020 # 1080

Airpost Journal # 1081

  • Four Mores Sheets in the Wind
  • Palestine to Washington 1942
  • London-Karachi 1929 Imperial Airways Air Service
July 2020 # 1081

Airpost Journal # 1082

  • It Floats, It Flies, It’s the S-38 ‘Amphibion!
  • Registered Airmail Cover to FDR from Northern Rhodesia
  • Brazilian Airmail Rates for Commercial Samples
  • Celebrate National Aviation Day
  • A Modern Flight Cover: Was it Flown?
  • Twice-Flown Lindbergh Covers to Cuba
  • Pan Am’s Brief FAM Route to the Maritime Provinces
August 2020 # 1082

Airpost Journal # 1083

  • Uruguay’s Airmail Rates Box
  • Brazil to France by Air: The Cost of War
  • Even More Sheets to the Wind
  • Flights Commemorating Transcontinental Centenary
  • 1931 Jacaranda Festival Airmail Cover Sent to FDR
September 2020 # 1083

Airpost Journal # 1084

  • England-Australia Air Race 1919: India Connection, Part 1
  • AIRMAILGRAM: A 1940s Navy Department Dispatch Mail Marking
  • A Pioneer Air Mail Flight and a Previously Unknown Cover
  • A Favorite First Flight Cover
  • The Douglas Commercial ‘Seven Seas’
October 2020 # 1084

Airpost Journal # 1085

  • Interrupted Airmail in Late 1941
  • AIRMAILGRAM : A 1940s Navy Department Dispatch Mail Marking - part 2
  • England-Austtralia Air Race 1919 : India Connection - part 2
  • Dutch Airmail began in 1920
  • Aerophilately 2022 Well on its Way
November 2020 # 1085

Airpost Journal # 1086

  • Christmas 1935 : A Canadian Airmail Cover sent to FDR
  • Give Wings to your Letters : Beacons Light the Way !
  • A Few Too Many Sheet to the Wind ?
December 2020 # 1086