DEUTSCHE POST first flight cover commemorating Lufthansa's inaugural flight from Berlin to Moscow via Vilnius - 1956

DEUTSCHE POST first flight cover commemorating Lufthansa's inaugural flight from Berlin to Moscow via Vilnius in 1956. Cancellation Marks: "Berlin NW Lufthansa Lufpoststelle" dated 4.10.56. Special Cachet: Round stamp "Befördert mit dem Erstflug Berlin-Moskau der Deutschen Lufthansa" (Carried on the first flight Berlin-Moscow by German Lufthansa). Destination: Vilnius, with instructions "poste restante" (held at the post office) indicating the recipient would collect the mail. 

Three of the stamps featured a Deutsche Lufthansa Ilyushin Il-14 airplane. 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. The Il-14 was also manufactured in East Germany by VEB Flugzeugwerke as the VEB 14.