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- Collection: Cleared to Land: The Records of the Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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Pan American World Airways Founder, Juan Trippe with Pan American World Airways Technical Advisor, Charles Lindbergh in Panama
Written on front: "Pan Am founder Juan T. Trippe (right) chats with aviaiton pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh on the tarmac in Panama. Pan Am began service from Miami to the Canal Zone in February 1929. Lindbergh was a long-time technical adviser to Pan…
Pan American World Airways' first China Clipper, Martin M-130 in service in 1935, and forty-five years later, its second China Clipper, Boeing 747SP
Written on front: "Majestically winging its way west, Pan American World Airways' first China Clipper, the Martin M-130 flying boat, launches pioneer transpacific service in 1935. Forty-five years later, history is repeating itself. Pan Am's second…
Pan American World Airways' first stewardesses
Pan Am caption: "FIRST CLIPPER CUTIES: First Pan American Airways Stewardesses were hired in 1944 to relieve men for war duty. It was the days of flying boats, when stewards often had to row passengers ashore and handle the heavy mooring lines.…
Pan American's weather station at the island of San Salvador Island in The Bahamas
Image from page 13 of GMRD Clipper issue from May 1958. Caption reads: "San Sal is number five in the chain of 12 [downrange stations of the East Test Range]. Below is Pan American's weather station at the base."
Panagra DC-6
cutaway sketch from "The Clipper Fleet of PAA" brochure, page 7 depicting aircraft amenties, specifications and performance of DC-6 model airplane manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. flown by Panagra (Pan American Grace Airways, Inc.), a…
Passengers aboard PAA's Bermuda Clipper and Imperial Airways' R.M.A. Cavalier
Image on back cover of timetable brochure entitled "New York Bermuda in 5 Hours: Timetable-Tariff", effective June 1, 1938. Cutaway diagrams show interior quarters of the Sikorsky S-42 flying boat "Bermuda Clipper" flown by Pan American Airways and…
Passengers and flight crew disembarking a Pan Am flight arriving at Limatambo Airport in Colombia in 1940
Image from page 10 of "Thirteenth Annual Report for Pan American Airways Corporation". Accompanying text reads in part, "During the year 1940, in cooperation with the Colombian Government, the reorganization of the domestic airway system of that…
Passengers boarding the Dixie Clipper for her inaugural transatlantic flight in 1939 (top) and Pan Am's Yankee Clipper (bottom)
Images from page 8 of Pan Am Clipper [newspaper], Vol. 10, No. 5 May 1984. Caption 1 reads: "First Flight. Passengers board "The Dixie Clipper" for the world's transatlantic passenger service inaugurated on June 6, 1939. The flight hopscotched from…