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- Collection: Cleared to Land: The Records of the Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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Sikorsky S-38 amphibious airplane flown by Pan American Airways
Image from page 4 of Pan American Clipper, Vol. 28, No. 10, May 8, 1968. Caption reads: "The Sikorsky S-38 amphibian was designed to meet Pan Am's expanding needs in Latin America."
Satellite bases along Florida's East coast, operated by the Guided Missile Range Division
Image from page 4 of GMRD Clipper, January 1959. Accompanying text reads in part: "It is common knowledge that Pan Am operates and maintains the 5,000 mile Atlantic Missile Range for the Air Force, stretching from Canaveral to distant Ascension in…
Route map showing available flight service to/fron Alaska via Pan American Airways in 1962
image from page 12 of Sales Clipper, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 1962. Caption reads: "Alaskan Service: West Coast advertising supports Pan Am's Alaskan service with this route network."
Roast beef was carved to order aboard Pan Am's DC-8 jet planes
Image from page 13 of brochure entitled "Aviation's One World in the Jet Age" outlining the services of Pan American World Airways and its role in commercial aviation.
Restaurant-like dining in the upstairs lounge of Pan Am's Boeing 747 aircraft
Image from page 13 of Pan American World Airways Annual Report for 1977. Caption reads: "The restaurant-type setting in the upstairs lounge of many of its 747 and 747SP aircraft is a Pan Am exclusive. Surveys show that 30 percent of Pan Am's first…
Red Cross nurses and workers loading supplies for the European war zone in 1944
Image from page 15 of New Horizons, Vol. 14, No. 10, Oct-Dec 1944. Caption reads: "In the protecting shadow of a Clipper's wings, these Red Cross nurses and workers are supervising the loading of blood plasma being rushed to the European war zone."
Prime Minister Yoshida arriving in San Francisco to sign the Peace Treaty With Japan, September 1951
Bottom image from page 9 of "Progress: Pacific-Alaska Division, 1951" report. Caption reads: "September 1951 - Prime Minister Yoshida arrives SFO to sign Japanese Peace Treaty".
President Harry S. Truman presenting Juan T. Trippe with the Harmon Trophy in 1947
Image from page 1 of The Skywriter, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1947. Caption reads: "President Truman presents citation accompanying Harmon Trophy to Mr. Trippe."
Polar azimuthal projection map depicting Pan Am's round-the-world flightpath
image/map from page 2 of brochure entitled "Aviation's One World in the Jet Age" outlining the services of Pan American World Airways and its role in commercial aviation
Pilot Robert G. Fowler after making the first flight across the Isthmus of Panama on April 27, 1913
Image from page 23 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 9, No. 3, April 1938. Caption reads: "Robert G. Fowler (white slacks) and the plane in which he made the first flight over the Panama Isthmus. Seated in the plane is Cameraman R. A. Duhem."