Plane over Fezzan Map

Plane over Fezzan Map

Year
1948
Face Value
200
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
Sites and landscapes

Catalogs References

Michel
FR-FZ 32
Yvert & Tellier
FR-FZ PA5
Stanley Gibbons
FR-FZ 39

Technical Details

Colors
indigo
Perforation
13
Printing
Photogravure
Designer
A. Boutet
Printers
Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres-Poste, Paris
This airmail stamp, issued under the post-World War II French military administration of southern Libya ("Territoire Militaire du Fezzan"), celebrates the establishment of strategic aviation links across the Sahara. The detailed engraving illustrates a twin-engine transport aircraft being serviced on a desert airfield runway, with cargo handlers active nearby and another plane visible taking off toward a distant oasis settlement on the horizon.