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Lot #5103 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 (1.10) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Luftverkht Mit Fluglinienstation Kiev" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of World War I. This document provides flight data and amount of post (1kg) carried on flight from Kiev/Proskurov to Lemberg, rare | Price Realized $400.00 |