American Air Mail Society

Dedicated to the documentation, preservation, advancement and promotion of aerophilately worldwide through education, study, research and services.

The American Air Mail Society (AAMS) is the second oldest aerophilatelic society in the world., presently with more than 900 members world-wide. It is a non-profit organization.

Membership includes a subscription to the Airpost Journal. The AAMS has one convention per year plus a table and a general meeting at the summer APS StampShow each year.

Associated societies are the Metropolitan Air Post Society MAPS (www.metroairpost.com) and the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society (www.aerophilately.ca).
Board of A.A.M.S.
President David S. Ball
Vice-President Dan Gribbin
Secretary William C. Fort III
Treasurer Charlie Giorgetti
FISA-Delegate Patrick Walters
Contact David Ball
IDM-contact Dan Gribbin
Official Publication

Airpost Journal

Website AAMS
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 96 - 2025
Volume 95 - 2024
Volume 94 - 2023
Volume 93 - 2022
Volume 92 - 2021
Volume 91 - 2020
Volume 90 - 2019
Volume 89 - 2018
Volume 88 - 2017
Volume 96 - 2025

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 1

  • THE "LONGEST AND THE MEANEST" AIR MAIL ROUTE: CRASH MAIL OF C.A.M. 8, PACIFIC AIR TRANSPORT (PART I) by Patrick Rodwell
  • AN AIR MAIL FIRST IN MILWAUKEE by Michael L. Wilson
  • POLAR AIR: HELICOPTER CRASH MAIL by David S. Ball
  • AIR MAIL TRAGEDY IN CONNECTICUT by William Eugene Grigg
  • STARLET BRINGS FLOWERS TO SHOW WHAT SPEED IS by Harry MacArthur
Jan-Feb 2025 # 1

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 2

  • The Little Route That Couldnt: The Short Life of the Minneapolis to Duluth CAM 9 Spur
  • The Barkley-Grow Airplane in Antarctica
  • Winged Cargo: The Life of One of Many Non-Skeds
  • Pilot Hill: 100 Years of Wyoming's Airmail Beacon
    And Much More!
Mar-Apr 2025 # 2

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 3

  • The Death Of The Philippine Clipper
  • U.S. Army Air Corps In WW II: More Than Pilots
  • The Japanese Assault On Wake Island
  • FDR, The Postmaster General, & Lagos, Nigeria
  • 100th Anniversary Convention
    And Much More!
May-Jun 2025 # 3

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 4

  • Nationalism in Disaster : the 1934 Bihar Earthquake
  • A Zeppelin & the Heart Mountain Relocation Center
  • The First Postcard Airmail Rate
  • The Barkley-Grow Airplane in Antarctica
    And Much More!
Jul-Aug 2025 # 4

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 5

  • The New Zeppelins : Airships after the Hindenburg
  • An interview with Fritz Guenther, Zeppelin Pilot
  • A Submarine & the Graf Zeppelin
Sep-Oct 2025 # 5

Airpost Journal Vol. 96, # 6

Nov-Dec 2025 # 6