MALTA7cAir Malta Boeing 720B · 7cImage unavailable
1978MALTA5cAircraft over megalithic temple · 5cImage unavailable
Image permission not established
1978 / Railways & transport
Aircraft over megalithic temple · 5c
Airmail definitives · replacement series
Denomination5c
Issue date1978-10-03
The story behind the issue
Six values in three designs replaced the 1974 airmail series, which was withdrawn on 2 October 1978.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Ltd., Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Maltese Crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe contemporary issue report supports the basic inventory and stated fields. Independent specimen and original-notice checks of the remaining technical attributes are still open.
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
All 6 original basic design/value types in this issue. Unchanged printings, plate positions and specialist varieties are excluded.