The most important aeronautical and / or aviator events are here mentioned, held in Italy or abroad, which have always greatly stimulated the sensitivity towards flight that usually accompanies every aerophilatelist. These are various kind of events where there were also aerophilatelic implications: aerostatic rallies, air shows, exhibitions and / or cultural events.
2023 – VOLANDIA
The unveiling of the S.55X model
Anticipated by a press conference held on September 13th at the Terrazza Duomo in Milan, on September 23, 2023, we had the opportunity to witness at Volandia (Case Nuove – Somma Lombardo, Varese) the unveiling ceremony of the museum replica of the S.55 X I-BALB, the legendary seaplane from Siai-Marchetti, a symbol of Italian excellence…
2023 – Aerophilately in Rho schools
The Scuola Paritaria San Carlo with the patronage of the Municipality of Rho has organized a project of mail art or postal art on the occasion of the day for legality and the fight against mafia crime. The intent is to circulate positive thoughts of active citizenship and beauty through the public postal service, by…
2023 – Centenary of the Italian Air Force
After the establishment, on 24 January 1923, of an Aeronautical Commissariat, on 28 March 1923, with Royal Decree 645, the Regia Aeronautica was born. All the military air forces of the Kingdom and the Army and Navy colonies were entrusted to it. The men of the Regia Aeronautica played a leading role in promoting aviation…
2023 – Aerostatic Exhibition at Palazzo Sormani
On March 24, 2023, in Milan, at the Sormani Library, in Corso di Porta Vittoria 6, in the Sala del Grechetto, the exhibition “Salir per l’aria e confidarsi al vento” was inaugurated, a documentary exhibition on the history of flight to Italy, starting from the first balloon experiments of the second half of the 18th…
2022 – The Military Geographical Institute
The Military Geographical Institute turned 150 this year. To commemorate this event, a stamp was issued in which the very detailed maps of the Institute are depicted in the background and in the foreground a plane from the 1930s intended for photogrammetric surveys. The origin of today’s Institute is parallel and consequent to the birth…
2023 – “PAPER WINGS” exhibition
The first cultural initiative, which actually opened the celebrations for the Centenary of the Italian Air Force was the “Wings of Paper” exhibition, inaugurated on 15 October 2022 and which will remain open until 19 February 2023, hosted at the Historical Rooms of Palazzo Aeronautica in Rome (open with free admission to the public every…
2022 – Brugherio 2022 – The fresco of the virtues in a balloon
In the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Grumello de ‘Zanchi, a hamlet of Zogno, in the province of Bergamo, you can admire a unique fresco of its kind, namely the Allegory of Virtues, better known as The Virtues in a balloon, work of the painter Vincenzo Angelo Orelli (born in Locarno…
2022 – Centenary of the first air crossing of the south Atlantic
On March 30, the Portuguese post office worthily commemorated the centenary of the first air crossing of the South Atlantic, between Portugal and Brazil, through the issue of a splendid series of three I20g stamps, corresponding to a nominal value of 1.05 euros. and a 3.00 euro block of paper. The first air crossing of…
2022 – Bergamo – 50th anniversary of the first line flight
On July 16, 1970, the Company for Bergamo Orio al Serio Civil Airport (SACBO) was established at the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce, an act that concluded a long process that had begun two years earlier to give life to the business of civil aviation on the pre-existing military airport, dating back to 1939. Exactly one…
2021 – Eighty years ago “Pearl Harbor”
On December 7, 1941, Japan unexpectedly attacked, without declaration of war, the American naval base of Pearl Harbor, in the archipelago of Hawaii, where the Pacific fleet was based, allowing the United States to overcome all internal resistance to the official entry into World War II. Eighty years have passed since that day and that…
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