Three cards are available, all mailed in Malaysia in 1990 with stamps but no complete postmarks. No aircraft registration number. One is Grade: 2 ($4) and the others are Grade: 3 ($3.50).

Three cards are available, all mailed in Malaysia in 1990, with stamps. One is in great shape (Grade: 1, $4.50). One has a bit of smudging on front and partial postmark on reverse (Grade: 2, $4). The third is great on the reverse but has significant postmark smudging on the front (Grade: 3, $3). Take your pick! No aircraft registration number. Maybe it’s a jinx.

Eight cards are available, all mailed in Malaysia in 1990-91, all with stamps. No registration number on the aircraft, sorry. Two of the cards are Grade 2 ($5.50) and six are Grade 3 ($4.50).

Three cards are available, each mailed in Malaysia in 1986, and each in more or less lousy condition. They all have stamps and heavy but readable Perlis postmarks. However each also has postmark smudging on the front. The best of the three is Grade 3 ($4). Next would be the one with a major fold across upper right corner (Grade: 4, $3). Finally would be the card that was printed badly and is blurry (Grade: 5, $2.50). As for the 9M-MAS registration, MAS took delivery in 1976 and then in 1996 leased this out to World Airways. After a short stay with First Security Bank of Utah in 1998, it went to DAS Air Cargo in 1999.

Another of these airline cards with multiple storylines. The card was mailed in Malaysia in 1986 and has Malaysian stamp but only incomplete postmark. We can get the registration number off the bottom of the wing, ZK-NZV, and here you go: B747-219B delivered to Air NZ in mid-1981, then to Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1999 as G-VZZZ, and in 2006 to Transaero Airlines as VP-BQE, where it still may be flying. Grade: 2

Unmailed card from 1954 but it has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse. Front photo is excellent. Grade: 4

Three cards are available, all mailed in Malaysia between 1986-1990. They each have a stamp and an unreadable postmark. One (Grade 3, $3) is creased on upper left front corner. The other two have a bit of postmark smudging on the front (Grades: 2, $4.50).

Two outsized (4-3/4″ x 7-1/8″) unmailed cards are available, and the tiny registration number VH-OJB gave up a wealth of info about this Wunala B747-438 aircraft. Grades: 1

Unused, as-new card. Grade: 1

Unused, as-new card. Grade: 1

Three cards are available, each mailed from Malaysia in 1986 and each in more or less the same condition with stamp and partial postmarks. Side note: can’t quite make out the registration number but it might be false anyway. If it starts with 9M, it would be Malta, which is highly unlikely; Singapore’s registrations start with 9V, which this plane clearly isn’t. Grades: 2

Card was mailed in Malaysia in 1990, with stamp and mostly legible postmark. Now, about the registration number…projecting from the “KB” on the wheel cover, the registration would likely have been 9V-SKB. However, by coincidence, that is the number of the first-ever Airbus 380 just delivered in 2007 to Singapore Airlines. Can’t see that this number had been assigned to a 747 before, though maybe it was. Do they recycle aircraft registration numbers? Grade: 2

Two unused, as-new cards from this defunct airline are available. Research on registration number HB-IHB shows the aircraft went to Swissair in 1973, then to Spantax as EC-DUG in 1984, and later in 1986 to Continental as N19072. It may be out of service now. Grades: 1

Two unused, as-new cards are available. Based on the history of this aircraft (HB-IGB) you could build a postcard collection just on its different homes. To Swissair in 1971, then National Airlines in 1984, then Egyptair in 1984, then back to National in 1985, then TWA in 1985, then Nationair in 1991, then Air Atlanta Icelandic as TF-ABL in 1993. And then: scrapped. Grades: 1

Five unused, virtually as-new cards are available. The registration number is there, but very hard to decipher. We think it’s HS-TGH and this makes sense if we believe the internet research, but we’re not 100% certain. HS-TGH is in fact a Boeing 747-4D7, delivered to Thai Airways in 1990 and still active. Grades: 1

The tail number is just too small to read, even with a magnifying glass. Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1966, has a legible Arizona postmark, and has some latent but not serious creasing vertically through the card (Grade: 3, $6). The other is unused and aging a bit but otherwise excellent (Grade: 1, $6).

Mailed in 2011 with stamp, postmark, Luftpost, and address label affixed.  Grade: 3

Superb unused card, probably from 1960s. Plane has a registration number, which looks a lot like N7751W, but the internet says that is not correct so we don’t know what it really is. A white spot on the front of the card looks like a flaw but is actually part of the original card. Grade: 1

Heavily aged and mottled yet unused postcard menu from a Pacific flight, probably in the 1970s. Grade: 4

Artsy but clever 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ card mailed internationally in 1998 with two stamps and legible postmark. A little battered around the edges. Grade: 3