Swiss air traffic - Switzerland 2019 - 100 Rappen

1919 is the year of the first regular air mail transport, moreover For the first time in Switzerland, scheduled passengers were transported by plane promoted. It marks the beginning of Swiss air traffic twice. On January 8, 1919 one transported double decker Häfeli DH-3 for the first time courier shipments on the airway. The 63-minute Flight led from Dübendorf into Berner Beundenfeld. Was in early February the line has already been extended to Lausanne and mid-April the stopover after Oberlindach relocated, where until 1922 the Bernese airfield was located. In September The track even became the same year extended to Geneva. The aircraft acted it is a Swiss construction: The two-seated DH-3 was an original one As a reconnaissance aircraft built biplane the Federal Construction Workshop (K + W) in Thun. On the special stamp the Swiss Foundation Pro Aero serves the red tail fin with the white Cross - the identification mark of Swiss Commercial aircraft - as an eye-catcher. The second main object leads the viewer 100 years back and shows the DH-3, the way already in 1944 to the 25-year Anniversary pictured on an airmail stamp was. In the background are the first Airmail routes recognizable, and it's one modern Bombardier CS100 from SWISS to see. In early September 1919, the end of April was on the track Zurich / Dübendorf-Bern / Kirchlindach-Lausanne / Blécherette introduced first airmail service from Switzerland to Geneva / St. Georges extended. The biplane built in Thun Häfeli DH-3 of the Swiss aviation department could in addition to the Post each also carry a passenger.