75th Anniversary of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) : Slovakia stamp
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2019. The creation of the ICAO took place at the Chicago Convention, held in 1944 to solve many of the practical problems related to the gradual expansion of the aviation sector. In 1947, the ICAO became a specialized agency of the United Nations. Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of Slovakia is a founding member of the ICAO. After the break-up of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic, as an independent state, became a member of the ICAO on January 1, 1993.
Since the Slovak Republic and its predecessor, the Czechoslovak Republic have a close relationship with aviation they issued a stamp in 2019 for the 75th Anniversary of ICAO.
General Milan Rastislav Štefánik, an important figure in the creation of Czechoslovakia was also a pilot and he died in a plane crash near Bratislava on May 4, 1919. By issuing the Ca. 3 stamp in 2019, Slovakia post killed two birds with one stone as 2019 is also the 100th death anniversary of aviation pioneer Rastislav, who died in a crash when he was coming back in this Ca. 3 military plane.
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