Australian FDC Guide
An illustrated guide to Australian First Day Covers.

50th Anniversary of the First Airmail Service

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Issue Details

Date of Issue1964-07-01
DescriptionCommemorating 50 years since the first airmail service. This issue has the same design on both stamps, a 5d Green & a 2/3 Red, it is a Bleriot XI Monoplane, the type of plane flown by Maurice Guillaux in 1914, he left Melbourne on 16 July, 1914 at 9:12 am, arriving in Sydney on 18 July at 2:50 pm. (flight time was 8 hours & 2 minutes).
Stamps in Issue5d, 2/3

AP (or PMG) Covers

Australia Post-issued covers, or covers using Australia Post (or PMG) cacheted envelopes.

First Day Cover (generic)


Non-AP Covers

Covers issued by other cover/cachet-makers (If I have them - not a complete list).

ACCA Cover green/blue

ACCA Cover green/red

ACCA Cover red/green


Royal Cover green/yellow

Royal Cover green/red

Royal Cover black/red

Royal Cover black/darkbrown

Royal Cover black/yellow


Challis (generic) Cover


Wesley Cover purple

Wesley Cover blue

Wesley 50th Anniversay Flight Cover