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 95 - 2024

Airpost Journal # 1123

  • Major James C. Fitzmaurice and the First East-West Flight Across the Atlantic / Liam Bryne
  • U.S. Airmail Rates 1910-1934, Part 3 : Governmental Period / James O'Bannon
  • Airmail Games / Joe Kirker
January 2024 # 1123

Airpost Journal # 1124

  • The Beacon Stamp Vignette and How it Came to Be / Ron Couchot
  • Airmail Aviator Walter Mills Bunting / Schalk de Klerk
  • 1932 Depression-Era Airmail: The 8-Cent Stamp, Envelope and Rate / Joe Kirker
  • Unlisted 1939 Pan Am Paris to New York First Flight / Jim Hester
  • A Forgotten Earhart Cover / Don Lussky
  • Unlisted Crash Cover / Ken Sanford
February 2024 # 1124

Airpost Journal # 1125

  • More Depression-Era Airmail Rates / Joe Kirker
  • Foreign Service Airmail Covers from Vichy France / Paul M. Holland
  • Scarce Lake Shade Stamp Discovered on Cover / Robert Brilliant
  • Lindbergh Recollections of CAM 2 Airplane Crash / Patrick A. Walters
March 2024 # 1125

Airpost Journal # 1126

  • Diagnosing Routings after the Closure of Mediterranean Air Space / Louis Fiset
  • Cover Sent from USS Iowa Anchored in Tokyo Bay. / Michael L. Wilson
  • The First Powered Flight in Antarctica: November 16, 1928, Part 1 / Richard A. Hindle
  • More on Treasure Island First Flight / Bill Trower
  • Additional Air New Zealand Foreign Flag Flight Cover Listing / Ken Pearson
  • Souvenir Covers from Bremen Anniversary Flight / Liam Byrne
  • Such a Fuss / Joe Kirker
April 2024 # 1126

Airpost Journal Vol. 95, # 5

  • Clémant Ader : French Aviation Pioneer
  • The First Powered Flight in Antarctica: November 16, 1928, Part 2
  • Airmail for the First Lady's Thimble
May 2024 # 5

Airpost Journal Vol. 95, # 6

  • Postal History of the 1934-1935 Stratosphere Balloon Flights from the Black Hills: Part I by Ken Stach
  • Lindbergh’s 1926 “Test Trip” Redux: The Lone Eagle’s Earliest Mail Flight by Dan Gribbin
  • Flown Stratospheric Mail Carried by Naval Aeronauts by David S. Ball
  • FDR’s New Deal and the National Recovery Administration: An Air Mail Perspective by Paul M. Holland
  • The July 1924 Launch of Nighttime Airmail Service: A Centennial Retrospective by Michael L. Wilson
  • The Sikorsky S-43 “Baby Clipper” by Juan L. Riera
  • Canadian Air Mail Notes: A Comprehensive History of Canadian Air Mail to 1945 by Chris Hargreaves
June / July 2024 # 6
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August / September 2024 # 7
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November / December 2024 # 8