Pan Am's newly manufactured Boeing B-314 seaplane flies above the Duwamesh River in Seattle, WA.

Pan Am's newly manufactured Boeing B-314 seaplane flies above the Duwamesh River in Seattle, WA.

Images from page 11 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 1938. Caption reads: "May 31, the first of the Pan American Airways' new flying boats, designated Boeing 314, slid down the ways into Seattle's Duwamish River. A week later, at the hands of Boeing Test Pilot Edmund T. Allen (below), this giant for the ocean trade routes of the world tried her wings for the first time. (above). About ninety days will be taken up the tests by Boeing, the Dept. of Commerce, and Pan American before the 83,000-pound giant will move on the ocean airways."

Pan American World Airways, Inc.

1938-05

Still Image

asm03410051930011001

1930-1939

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