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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."
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…
A Pan American Clipper making a landing into San Juan Harbor in Puerto Rico, circa 1938
Image from page 5 of Pan American Air Ways, supplement entitled"Bringing the World to Your Door", 1938. Caption reads: "An easy day's flight from Miami finds the modern Clipper winging into old San Juan harbor, Porto [sic] Rico, nine years after the…
Photograph of a Pan American plane soaring over the Andes mountains en route to Peru
image from page 8 of Pan American Air Ways, supplement entitled"Bringing the World to Your Door", 1938. Caption reads: "A Pan American airliner soars on certain wings over the lofty Andean peaks and a toilsome journey of days becomes a matter of…
Photograph of a Pan Am Clipper flying boat traversing Sugar Loaf Mountain as it lands in Rio de Janeiro circa 1938
image from page 10 of Pan American Air Ways, supplement entitled"Bringing the World to Your Door", 1938. Caption reads: "A Pan American airliner soars on certain wings over the lofty Andean peaks and a toilsome journey of days becomes a matter of…
"Clipper versus Clipper", artistic sketch of a Clipper ship and Clipper aircraft
image from cover of Pan American Air Ways, suppelement entitled "The Yankee Clippers Sail Again", March 1939.
Pan Am's Boeing B-314, the first passenger plane to cross the Atlantic Ocean
Page 16 of Pan American Air Ways, supplement entitled "The Yankee Clippers Sail Again", March 1939. "How the Atlantic Will Be Flown" - Photographs and diagrams of Pan American Airways planes and operations during the development phase of …
Photograph of first three Boeing B-314s built for Pan American Airways
image from page 1 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 1939. Caption reads: "The first three of the great Boeing-built Clippers pose for their pictures on Seattle's Lake Washington, prior to delivery to Pan American Airways for transocean…
Photograph of Pan American's "Yankee Clipper" on the Patapsco River en route to the Azores
image from page 1 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1939. Caption reads: "This striking photo shows Pan American's new Flagship skimming over the waters of the Patapsco River a moment before it lifted into the air to wing its way to the…
Photograph of the christening ceremony of Pan American's "California Clipper" at Treasure Island
image from page 8 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1939. Caption reads: "Mrs. Wallace M. Alexander, wife of one of Pan American's directors, christens "California Clipper" at the Treasure Island base with a bottle of California…