Warsaw Berlin Lufthansa First Flight

Warsaw Berlin(East Germany) Lufthansa

 First flight flown cover

The above cover flown in Ilyushin Il-14, the first Warsaw - Belin - Warsaw flight. You can see Ilyushin Il-14 in the above cancellation.

The Ilyushin Il-14 was a Soviet twin-engine commercial and military personnel and cargo transport aircraft that first flew in 1950 and entered service in 1954.

Deutsche Lufthansa acquired a fleet of Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft. The first flight of the airline took place on 16 September 1955 by which East German Prime minister Otto Grotewohl travelled to Moscow for a state visit. Scheduled passenger flights were launched on 4 February 1956 with the inauguration of the East Berlin-Warsaw service. 

Il-14 was also manufactured in East Germany by VVB Flugzeugbau, in Czechoslovakia as the Avia 14. The Ilyushin Il-14 was typically replaced by the Antonov An-24 and Yakovlev Yak-40.