# United States Postage Meter Stamp Catalog/Sub-group AR-AIR: Stamps used primarily for Air Force official business
#### Sub-group AR-AIR: Stamps used primarily for Air Force official business

* Some of these stamps are quite elusive but their actual rarity is not known. As a consequence no specific rarity indicators are shown for this sub-group.
* Earliest date seen, 1971.
AR-AIR1.1. Pitney Bowes.
    Type IA4.1 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO number at bottom:
          - 09057 (369788, 375471, 388383)
          - 09611 (375698)
       B. (space) AIR FORCE POSTAL SVC at top ("ARMY" removed), APO and five-digit number at bottom:
          - APO 09238 (388383)
          - APO 09240 (338275)
    V/F: ≋ 00 :
       a. Town mark inverted: AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE / APO 96528 (380260)
AR-AIR1.2. Pitney Bowes.
    As Type AR-AIR1.1 but with larger colon in the value figures indicating the meter cannot print fractions of a cent values.
    Type IA4.5 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and number at bottom
       B. (space) AIR FORCE POSTAL SVC at top ("ARMY" removed), APO and number at bottom:
          - APO 09012 (369933)
          - APO 09132 (370000)
          - APO 09283 (369909)
       C. Town mark contains no indication of Air Force use but with slogan used by the Air National Guard for official business
    V/F: ≋ 00 : (widely spaced colon dots)
AR-AIR1.3. Pitney Bowes.
    As Type AR-AIR1.2 but with larger meter number below "P.B. METER".
    Type IA4.6 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and number at bottom:
          - APO 09680 (375431)
          - APO 34007 (370020)
          - APO 34008 (369817)
          - APO 96431 (379758)
       B. (space) AIR FORCE POSTAL SVC at top ("ARMY" removed), APO 09012 at bottom: ](369933)
    V/F: ≋ 00 : (widely spaced colon dots)
AR-AIR2.1. Pitney Bowes.
    Type IC3.1 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and five-digit number at bottom)
       B. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO AE or AP at top, five-digit number at bottom:
          - 09012 (969145)
          - 09468 (35322#)
          - 96330 (953251)
    V/F: ≋0 .00 (wavy lines at left 2mm tall)
    V/F: ≋0 .00 (small wavy lines at left 1mm tall)
AR-AIR2.2. Pitney Bowes.
    As Type AR-AIR2.1 but with larger meter number below "P.B. METER".
    Type IC3.2 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and five-digit number at bottom)
       B. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO at top, five-digit number at bottom:
          - 09464 (3371782)
          - 09821 (3322126)
          - 96319 (3350345, 3370285)
          - 96368 (3351861)
       C. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO AE or AP at top, five-digit number at bottom)
       D. AIR FORCE APO AE / 09449 (3355794)
       E. US AIR FORCE / 96570 (indistinct)
    V/F: ≋0 .00 (wavy lines at left 2mm tall)
    V/F: ≋0 .00 (small wavy lines at left 1mm tall)
       a. Error, town mark with "MAIL" instead of "FORCE": AIR MAIL POSTAL SERVICE / 09852 (3370339)
AR-AIR2.3. Pitney Bowes.
    Type IC4.1 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and number at bottom
       B. (space) AIR FORCE POSTAL SVC at top ("ARMY" removed), APO and number at bottom:
          - APO 09323 (863202)
          - APO and indistinct number (862915)
       C. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO AE / 09720 (856466)
    V/F: . 00
AR-AIR2.4. Pitney Bowes.
    As Type AR-AIR2.3 but with larger meter number below "P.B. METER".
    Type IC4.2 with town marks:
       A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE at top, APO and number at bottom:
          - 09292 (375494)
          - 34001 (819145)
          - 34002 (953489)
       B. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO AE / 09720 (3032946)
    V/F: . 00
AR-AIR3.1. Friden.
    Type KB1.1 with town mark: AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE / SAN FRANCISCO 96323 (030494, 030596)
    V/F: ≋.00≋
AR-AIR3.2. Friden.
    As Type AR-AIR3.1 but with wider value box.
    Type KB2.1 with town marks:
          A. AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE / SAN FRANCISCO 96264 (030844, 031091, 222902)
          B. AIR FORCE POSTAL SER. / APO NEW YORK N.Y. 09102 (030844) [RRRR]
    V/F: ≋.00≋
AR-AIR4.1. Pitney Bowes.
    Commercial meter stamps with slogan: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE / OFFICIAL BUSINESS. All letters the same size.
       A. Used with Type IC4.1
       B. Used with Type IE1
       a. As A, with town mark: APO NY / 09136 (910063)
AR-AIR4.2. Friden.
    Type KA1.3 with slogan: GO / AIR / FORCE!
AR-AIR4.3. Hasler.
    Type LB1.1 with slogan: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE / OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Letters in bottom line larger than letters in top line.