NINETY YEARS OF AVIATION IN AUSTRIA

Wiener Neustadt - Aspern - Schwechat

By A A Graf, H Kucera, & A Taylor

This article was originally written by Herr Alfred A Graf and published in 1999 as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Favoriten Stamp Club in Vienna (BSV Favoriten). He granted permission to our member Herb Kucera for it to be translated and published in 'Austria', which HK and I have done. My grateful thanks to them both. I have added a few illustrations of stamps and covers, and enhanced several of the cancels.

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Contents:

  • Developments up to 1918
  • The first international airmail line
  • Special airmail cancellations
  • Between the wars in Aspern
  • First Flights
  • The most international airport of the world
  • The Zeppelin in Aspern
  • The time of the Third Reich
  • The first postwar years
  • The difficult birth of the AUA
  • A Soviet Souvenir
  • The development of Schwechat airport
  • International Airmail Exhibition - 1968
  • Historical Notes.
  • A: The Heimwehr
  • Further Reading
  • The Aeroplanes
  • Constantin, Freiherr von Economo: 1876-1931


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    ©Andy Taylor. Last updated 20 Jan 2001