Zeppelin NT, 60 years Kinderdorf Airmail - receipt, Germany

April 12, 2012 marked the 60th anniversary of the first balloon mail in favor of the Pestalozzi Children's Village. The anniversary flight with the Zeppelin NT D-LZZF "Baden-Württemberg" was planned for Mother's Day 13 May 2012, but had to be moved one day to 14 May due to the weather. be moved. On board the Zeppelin NT was a mailbag with Zeppelin receipts. These receipts are franked with the German stamp Individuell "60 years of Erste Kinderdorf Flugpost". They were postmarked with the special postmark Stockach on the same topic. The authenticity of the Zeppelin receipts and the transport by airship are confirmed by the affixed on-board seal "LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin". 60 years ago, at the instigation of Jo Scheer, balloon mail was transported from Lindau to Ichenhausen in a gas balloon. The anniversary flight "60 years of Kinderdorf Flugpost" took the Zeppelin NT back to Friedrichshafen on May 14, 2012 via the island of Mainau, Überlingen and the Bregenz Bay. With 12 passengers and the mailbag on board, the flight took two hours.