1917 (13 July) picture postcard bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free-frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to Mikhail Kalinin and to the Kalinins who designed aircraft in the 1920s-30s (Image)

Est.$500

1918 (24 Oct) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station, pre-printed official "K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen Mil. Fluglinienstation Kiew" also "Mit dem nachsten Postflugzeug an Flugstation Kiew senden", fine and rare document detailing the military transport activities, stops in Proskurow and Baroviszcze (Image)

Est.$1,000

1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of World War I. The flight station Aspern was located on the outskirts of Vienna (Image)

Est.$500

1925 (13 July) registered and flown cover from Tashkent to Germany, franked with three diff. labels, used in combination with regular franking, fine-v.f., with 19.7 arrival postmark (Image)

Est.$500

1927 10k postal card (Ural Air Squadron) with 5k dark blue (Air Defense League), tied by Zlatoust cds, with additional pmk alongside, fine (Image)

Est.$150

1929 (7 Aug) - special flight from Moscow to New York City to promote Soviet Aviation. The flight paralleled the Trans-Siberian RR to Khabarovsk and northeast to Seward, Alaska, to Seattle and the East Coast. The plane - "Land of the Soviets" covered the distance of 13,300 miles in 70 days. Only 10 covers were carried on the "Land of the Soviets", nine to New York (another to Seattle), v.f. (Cat No. AAMC 1095) (Image)

Est.$500

1931 (27 Sep) registered and flown cover from Batum to Athens, franked on both sides with three different adhesives, Batum departure and registry markings, triangular Zemun bilingual transit, also Berlin and Athens arrival pmks, fine and unusual cover (Image)

Est.$250

1931 (7 Oct) cover franked with 3x5k Aviakhim (society for the development of Aviation and chemical defense) adhesives, used from Perm to Sverdlovsk, with arrival pmk. Since the Aviakhim stamps were not valid for postage, the cover was initially charged "30k" penalty postage due (boxed handstamp), later voided, since the sender was probably a Red Army officer, rare item (Image)

Est.$1,000

1937 two leaflets (dropped from airplanes over Moscow) to greet the three Trans-Arctic fliers who flew from Moscow on 18th of June to Vancouver in 63 hours in their ANT-25 airplane, the leaflets red "Glory to Soviet heroes Chkalov, Baidukov and Belyakov", "Forward to New Victories under Lenin, Stalin", some stains, seldom offered (Image)

Est.$100

1939 (28 Apr) Non-stop Transatlantic flight, Moscow-New York, by Soviet aviators Gen.Kokkinaki and Major Gordienko on their airplane "Moskva". After successfully crossing the Atlantic, the aviators were forced (due to bad weather over Labrador) to fly at 30,000 feet using oxygen masks. Their supply of oxygen was nearly depleted and at high altitude, the radio equipment froze up. Eventually, Gen. Kokkinaki fainted and his navigator Gordienko took over the controls and managed an emergency landing at Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick. After repairs, the "Moskva" proceeded to New York. This postcard (Lenin Mausoleum) is one of only 32 carried on this flight, with Registry label No.67, addressed to BAN. Nikolsky, with Miscou Lighthouse N.B. Apr 28, 39 arrival pmk, v.f. (Cat No. AAMC TO1320) (Image)

Est.$1,000

1944 (18 Jan) First Flight Moscow to Damascus, Syria, with "France Libre" cachets and censor markings, v.f. (Image)

Est.$500