From Friday December 17th to Tuesday December 21st, the “Biagio Andreuccetti” Philatelic Atlantic Cruises Club, led by our member Bernardino Bergamaschi, with the patronage of the Municipality of Orbetello and the collaboration of the Atlantic Trasvolatori Association and the Federation of Italian Philatelic Societies ( FSFI), organizes a National Exhibition of Aerofilatelia, now in its 41st edition.
The event is organized on the occasion of the 91st anniversary of the first Transatlantic Cruise of General Italo Balbo, which left Orbetello on December 17th, 1930 and arrived in Rio de Janeiro on January 15, 1931. The participating squadrons were four:
- Black Squadron, I-BALB aircraft, under the command of General Italo Balbo;
- Red Squadron, I-MARI aircraft, under the command of Captain Giuseppe Marini;
- White Squadron, I-AGNE aircraft, under the command of Captain Alfredo Agnesi;
- Green Squadron, I-LONG aircraft, under the command of Major Ulisse Longo.
The participating planes were 14, but 12 arrived in Rio de Janeiro.
For the occasion, four special postcards will be issued in memory of the event, which can be stamped and sent through the post office of the Italian Post Office in Grosseto, which will operate from 11.00 to 15.00. During this event, this office will use a special figured postmark made by Mario Regina on all correspondence received.
