BOEING AIRCRAFT IN STAMPS

BOEING AIRCRAFT IN STAMPS

From my own collection of stamps , I will post stamps figuring the range of the Boeing Airliners. The post will be updated regularly so check from time to time.


April 23, 2019

MALTA

BOEING 707

From Eire (or Ireland) comes this stamp of the Boeing 707, Aer Lingus named their Boeing 707 after Irish Saints : Saint Laurence O Toole, Saint Brigid, Saint Eunan, Saint Enda, Saint Canice ,Saint Senan.

From French Polynesia comes this stamp of the Boeing 707 with the old livery of Air France . The introduction of the Jet allowed to reduce greatly the flying time between Paris and Papeete

An other stamp from from the same series is the iconic B707 of PAN AMERICAN . The American company used Papeete as a stop on its routes to Australia and New Zealand

From Israel comes this stamp depicting a Boeing 707 of the 400 series as evidenced by the fin under the tail 

From the island of Mauritius  , comes this beautiful depiction of of A boeing 707-300. The Boeing 707 played an important role in developping the international network of the company 

From Kuwait 
15 years from the creation of Kuwait Airwys  in this lovely series of Boeing 707 which was instrumental on developpong the company's network
  

From Pakistan , This single stamp celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of air Links between Pakistan and China . The timetable dated July 1, 1964 shows the inaugural link



from the collection of Bjorn Larsson at www.timetableimages .com

This stamp from a series issued by Roumania on the occasions of the40th anniversary of ICAO represents a Boeing 707 of the flag carrier TAROM

From Trinidad and Tobago comes  this beautiful series of the national airlines B.W.I.A celebrating its 35th anniversary

this stamp is part of a larger series and shows the b707 of B.W.I.A
 

From Uruguay comes this series . Although celebrating the introduction of the Boeing 737, the stamp series depicts the Boeing 707 of PLUNA the Uruguayan national airlines

BOEING 720

From Malta, comes this beautiful stamp of its national air carrier Air Malta . Air Malta began its operations with the Boeing  720 leased from Pakistan International Airlines

 

From Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), comes this beautiful stamp of its national air carrier Air Rhodesia  . The fleet of Air Rhodesia was acquired from Eastern Airlines through a screen company to avoid  the provision of the embargo aganst the country in the seventies.More on the operations of Aie Rhodesia in the seventies:  http://utopiaairport.blogspot.com/2015/02/air-rhodesia-b707-operations-in-70s.html

BOEING 727

From Gibraltar  , DAN AIR's LONDON Boeing 727-100

This beautiful stamp of a Boeing 727-100 comes from Iceland for the 50th anniversary of aviation in this remote island. ICELANDAIR operated  3 Boeing 727-100 : TF-FIA "Solfaxi" , TF-FIE  "Gullfaxi" (re-registered TF-FLH) and TF-FLG (leased)

 From Kiribati Islands and Air Tungaru, I present  a beautiful B727-30C operated by the airline. The Airline operated between 1977 and 1994

From the Maldives Islands comes this generic Boeing 727 .

From the Marshall Islands comes this delicious Boeing  of Continental Airlines  known also as Air Mike

From Nauru comes this rare Boeing  727-100 ofAir Nauru the national airline of this tiny Pacific island
On May 31 1976 a Boeing 727-100 "Chief Auweiyeda"  is brought from ANSETT followed by another in December 1977 acquired from Delta Airlines (Ex Northeast Airlines frame) and third one from ANSETT in May1980.

More on air Nauru at this link  AIR NAURU STORY THROUGH ITS STAMPS

BOEING 727-200

LACSA of Costa Rica celebrates its 50th anniversary with the B727-200 . The company operated a total of 9 frames between owned and leased aircraft

Colourful Air Jamaica Boeing 727-200 to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary 

 

Colourful  Boeing 727-200 of Air Djibouti the flag carrier of the Republic of Djibouti

BOEING 737

BOEING 737-100

A rare view in a stamp of a Boeing 737-100. This specimen comes from Angola,

BOEING 737-200

This colorful Boeing 737-200 if Lineas Aereas de Angola comes as its name suggest from Angola . TAAG Linhas Aereas de Angola operated  9 Boeing 737-200 and operated the type until well into the 21st century when D2-TBO operated its last commercial flight on July 25, 2014

 

From the Bahamas Islands comes this stamp of the Boeing 737-200 of Bahamas Air

From the Cayman Islands comes this refreshing stamp of the Boeing 737-200 of Cayman Airways

Gibraltar and Air Europe' s  Boeing 737-200

 


From India comes this stamp of a Boeing 737-200F of Air India sub-chartered to India post

From the Malta , a beautiful stamp of a Boeing 737-200 from the national airline of the Island in its classic original livery

From the Marshall Islands come the beautiful stamp of a Air Nauru's Boeing 737-200

2 Lovely examples of Naurus's Boeing 737-200 , the first issued for the 15h anniverary of the company and the 2nd for its 10th anniversary . Air Nauru operated 4 Boeing 737-200 2 were leased from Maersk Air pending the delivery ,fresh from the factory,  of Nauru's own metal

From the Republic of Djibouti comes this stamp of a Boeing 737-200 celebrating the establishment of the national air carrier .

From Samoa comes the following 2 stamps illustrating a Boeing 737-200 of AIr New Zealand and and  Polynesian Airlines

BOEING 747 

BOEING 747-100

Aer Lingus ordered 2 Boeing 747-100 from  Boeing, They wre baned after St.Patrick and Saint Colmcille,

Lufthansa was one of the earliest customer of the Boeing's widebody.The company needed them badly as it faced growth on its intercontinetal services mainly to North America .This growth could not be handled by the Boeing 707.

Lufthansa named its Boeing 747 fleet after its states (Bavaria...), cities (Hamburg, New York)


This stamp  from Hungary is a tribute to PAN AMERICAN the iconic American company
 that operated not less than 65 B747s (100/200/SP series)

Swissair ordered and operated the Boeing 747-100 series until replaced by the 747-300 . This fine stamp illustrates the Boeing 747-100

From the Mongolia comes this  Boeing 747 under Boeing's old colors

BOEING 747-200

Beautiful stamp of a Boeing 747-200 of Air Pacific from the Fiji Islands . The stamp is from a series of 4 stamps celevrating the 50th anniversary of the airline

From Kuwait , these 2 beautiful stamps for the 25the anniversary of the establishment of the airline

From the Republic of Djibouti a beautiful Air France B747 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Air France  accompanied by beautiful olustration of other airplanes.

From the Seychelles this non-descript  Boeing 747 stamp

Celebrating its 20th anniversary of the establishment of Air Gabon the national airline of the country , The Gabonese post issued this series of 2 stamps

From Trinidad & Tobago  , this beautiful 747 of British Airways (the stamp is part of a larger series issued to celebrate 35th anniversary of airmail in Trinidad & Tobago)

BOEING 747-300

Another colorful stamp of a  Boeing 747-300 of Lineas Aereas de Angola  . TAAG Linhas Aereas de Angola operated 3 second-hand Boeing 747-300 : D2-TEA acquuired from Singapore Airlines, D2-TEB from SWISSAIR and D2-TBO from South African Airways.


 

BOEING 747-400

Bahamas Celebrates the Boeing 747-400 with this delicious British Airways Boeing 747-400

 

Celebrating 50 years of aviatioon in Malaysia comes this series. National Airlines MAS operated a the whole range of Boeing 747 the 100 series, the 200 series, the 300 series and the 400 series. The last one allowed the airline to operate non-stop services to Europe from Kuala Limpur

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia published this rare stamp of its National Ailines SAUDIA Boeing 747-400 in its newest livery

From the Maldives Islands comes this  Boeing 747-400 under the colors of Boeing 

From Vietnam comes this B747-400F of JAL Cargo. Cargo is a major source of revenues for the airlines

BOEING 747-SP

The Syrian Arab Republic celebrated its Civil aviation Day with this stamp  as a tribute to the Boeing 747-SP as in Special Performance . @ were ordered from the Boeing company to inaugurate together with ALIA links between the USA and Amman and Damascus

 

BOEING 757

Bahamas represents in this stamp the Boeing 757 of Eastern Airlines a major carrier on the USA-Bahamas routes before the airline folded 

Iceland chose to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ICAO, the Boeing 757 of Icelandair

A beautiful stamp in color of Icelandair's B757 in its new livery

Jersey celebrated the Boeing 757 of British Airways with this beautiful stamp. BA used the airraft on its high density short to medium routes as well as onots huttle services.

BOEING 767

A very colorful B767 of Fiji Airways as shown in this stamp from Fiji

LOT the polish airlines celebrated its 75th anniversary with this tribute to the Boeing 767. The company operated a mix of the 200 and 300 series. Krakow, Warsawa,Gdansk,Posznan and Gniezeno were the names carried by the type. The B767 came to replace the old and ageing IL62 on the USA/Canada/Far East network of the company.

Vietnam Airlines' Boeing 767-300ER in the compan'ys old livery. The company was able to laumch trancontinental services with this jet

BOEING 777

 From Angola comes this stamp of the Boeing 777

From the Republique de Guinee comes this stamp of the Boeing 777-200 of British Airways

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia published this rare stamp of its National Ailines SAUDIA Boeing 777 in its newest livery

BOEING 787

The Republic of Macedonia celebrates the Boeing 787 with this beautiful issue