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  Pan American World Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991.
Pan Am's holding company, the Aviation Corporation of the Americas, was one of the hottest stocks on the New York Curb Exchange in 1929, and flurries of speculation surrounded each of its new route awards.
Pan Am II soon merged with the troubled Carnival Airlines, but the rapid expansion and economic troubles of the two companies were too much for the new Pan Am II—it only survived for two years before declaring bankruptcy.
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 American Overseas Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Overseas Airways was an airline that flew between the U.S. and Europe.
It was founded in 1946 as a subsidiary of American Airlines.
Pan American World Airways purchased it in 1948.
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 Encyclopedia: Pan American Airlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was also one of the first three airlines to sign options for Concorde, but like other airlines which took options except British Overseas Airways Corporation and Air France, it did not actually purchase the supersonic jet.
Pan Am also built "Worldport," a terminal building at JFK Airport that was the world's largest airline terminal for many years, distinguished by its elliptical, four acre (16,000 m²) roof, suspended far from the outside columns of the terminal below by 32 sets of steel posts and cables.
Pan Am II A new investment group including Charles Cobb (the former Ambassador to Iceland) purchased the rights to the Pan American brand after the original carrier declared bankruptcy in 1992.
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 Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records Collection, Richter Library
Pan American Airways, as it was then named, began operations on October 28, 1927, with the first scheduled international flight by a United States airline.
Pan Am proved to be an airline of many "firsts." On November 22, 1935, the "China Clipper," a Martin flying boat built to Pan Am's specifications departed from San Francisco and began a six day journey to Manila, completing the first transpacific flight.
Pan Am was the first airline to order the Boeing 747, a plane that flew more passengers faster, higher and farther than its predecessors.
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 Pan American Airline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 ipedia.com: Pan American World Airways Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pan Am was founded by aviator Juan Terry Trippe as a seaplane service from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, and operated its first southbound flight on October 28, 1927.
Pan Am also lost its distinction as the United States' official international airline: first to American Overseas Airways, and later to a number of carriers designated to compete with Pan Am in certain markets, such as TWA to Europe and Northwest Orient to East Asia.
The new airline was headed by the last Vice-Chairman and Chief Operations Officer of Pan Am, Marty Schugrue, who also helped in the creation of the Frequent Flyer program and who served as President of American Airlines and later truste of the Eastern Airlines estate.
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 Air Transportation: Pan American: The History of America's “Chosen Instrument” for Overseas Air Transport
Pan American was the first U.S. airline to embrace the jet era in passenger aviation.
Pan American also played a key role in shaping the economics and eventual design of a new generation of wide-bodied jets.
Although many other airlines were the first to offer regular services on various international routes, it was Pan American Airways that set the standards for service in the commercial aviation era.
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 Pan Am Airlines
Pan Am Airlines was contracted with United States military forces during World War II, which benefited the company greatly.
When the federal government began to look into monopolies, Pan Am took some of the worst hits and was forced to relinquish some of their routes to other airlines — at the same time that passenger air travel numbers began to take a dive.
Pan Am eventually went under in December 2001 and Delta acquired the airline, continuing to fly its planes under the famous name for a short time, then slowly converting all the planes to bear the Delta logo.
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 Aviation Corporation of America 1929 - 1930 (Early Pan American Airlines)
Pan American was the successful bidder and immediately proceeded to purchase the entire assets of Mexicana.
The Pan American Grace Era The shortest route to Buenos Aires, Trippe's ultimate objective in South America, was down the west coast.
Pan American's presence was also quickly felt in the internal operations of SCADTA, not necessarily to their detriment.
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 Harold R. Harris Papers
He remained with Pan American Airlines until 1954(?) when he resigned his position to become President of North West Airlines.
Harris was President of North West Airlines until he resigned in 1955 due to irreconcilable differences between himself and the North West Airlines Board of Directors.
The business correspondence consists of letters concerning Pan American Airlines, of which Harris was a vice-president and chief operating officer.
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 :: Early Aviation Flying Boat Era - Airlines ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By 1937, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) were confident enough to attempt the first test flight over the Atlantic Ocean in a flying boat.
Throughout World War II the Pan Am operation in Botwood was operating resiliently, completing 455 flights between the years of 1939 and 1945.
It was inevitable though, that after the war these flying boats would see the end of their reign as the new land-based aircraft took over the skies.
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 Advertising : Aviation : American :
This series was put out by Pan American Airlines in January 1984 and depicts historic events in Pan Am's history.
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This large 8 inch diameter ashtray has the AMERICAN AIRLINES Eagle Logo with AA and the slogan "The spacious way to the USA" on it.
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 pan am airlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pan Am Airlines was contracted with United States military forces during...
A third airline using the PAN AM logo and identity is now about to start flights using Boeing 727-200 jets with...
Like other major airlines, Pan Am had invested in a large fleet of new 747s with...
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 Open Directory - Science:Technology:Aerospace:Aeronautics:History:Airlines:Pan American World Airways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pan American World Airways, commonly called Pan Am, was founded as a humble mail carrier in Key West, Florida in 1927.
Pan Am sold off its lucrative routes piece by piece to United, American, Delta, Lufthansa, and other competitors, but was unable to service its debt, and the airline ceased operation in December 1991.
In 1998, yet another revived airline was established in New Hampshire, providing limited and charter service primarily to the northeastern U.S. and some Caribbean destinations.
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 Pan American Airplanes in Frankfurt, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was used for instance by Pan Am and Northwest Airlines.
A Pan American B727 short before touchdown at Rhein-Main Airport in the late eighties.
A Pan American B 727 during catering by Lufthansa Service Gesellschaft.
www.travelnotes.de /planes/germany/panam.htm   (114 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Technology: Aerospace: Aeronautics: History: Airlines: Pan American World Airways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pan American Airways - The online home of Pan American Airways, and the Clipper Connection, a local service carrier serving the American East and United States Virgin Islands.
Pan American Airways Documentary Project: On the Wings of Giants - A project to completely document the history of Pan Am.
Pan American World Airways - A private collection of advertising and other materials from the 1930s and 1940s, including brochures, photographs, and slides from a 1948 filmstrip.
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 Pan American Airways Douglas DC-7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Remarks by Jack McKillop: Douglas DC-7C, msn 44887, delivered to Pan American World Airways of New York, New York, USA, on 29 August 1956, registered N745PA and named "Clipper Midnight Sun;" it was later renamed "Clipper Fortune." The aircraft was subsequently converted to a DC-7C/F freighter and was written off on 18 February 1961.
On that date, the First Officer was making an Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach to Stuttgart, Germany, when the plane suddenly hit a 10-foot (3-meter) high mound of earth located 66-feet (20-meters) short of the runway threshold and 149 feet (45.4-meters) north of the north edge of the runway.
Control was maintained and the flight crew managed to climb away and divert to Nurnberg Airport, Germany, for an emergency belly landing on a foamed runway.
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 Pan American World Airways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is a brochure that Pan American published in 1937 to promote the transpacific China Clipper service from San Francisco to Hawaii, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, Manila, and Hong Kong.
Photos of Pan American Clippers and Wake Island in 1936 - from the collection of William B. Voortmeyer.
Pan American World Airways, Inc. and Eclipse Holdings, Inc. claim rights to the Pan Am names, trademarks, and logos.
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 MidAmerica Airport Officials Set Sights on Cargo Carrier
In addition, airlines were reluctant to be the first one to go into an airport that had no other tenants and no passenger traffic.
Airlines that have been contacted include the retooled Ozark Air Lines, based in Columbia, Mo., and American Trans Air, the Indianapolis based airline that employs 6,000 people and offers both scheduled and chartered flight services.
American Trans Air, which was founded in 1973, flies to Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York.
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 Pan American World Airways biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1998, the Pan Am brand was sold to Guilford Transportation Industries, a railroad company headed by Tim Mellon of the Pittsburgh bank family, and launched Pan Am III with a fleet of seven Boeing 727's, flying to nine cities in New England, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
The current incarnation of Pan Am uses the IATA designator code PN.
Pan American World Airways, Queen of The Skies PAN AM
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 Hawaii Pan American Vintage Poster Art and Prints
Not surprisingly, airlines, cruise ships and travel agencies have long relied on scenes of the pleasures of island life to entice travelers.
A beautiful, smiling wahine with an orchid in her hair offers a lei, and framed in that lei are cliffs, ocean and beach, where vacationers frolic.
In Fly to South Sea Isles via Pan American, a native girl lounges at her ease on a rock overlooking a deep blue lagoon.
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 Airline Tickets
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 Pan American
Hand painted and detailed with Pan American markings, model comes ready to display on the included mahogany base.
Hand painted and detailed with Pan American World Airways markings, model comes ready to display on the included mahogany base.
Hand painted and detailed with Pan Am markings, model comes ready to display on the included mahogany base.
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 Airline History - Airlines by index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
These were replaced in 1958 when Pan American World Airways took delivery of the new Boeing 707-120 long-range jets.
National Airlines were used mainly on charter flights into London Gatwick.
In 1991 the airline went into liquidation after years of financial problems and it's Heathrow routes were aquired by United Airlines and Delta Airlines ending an era at Heathrow as Pan American were at Heathrow at it's opening after the war.
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 HISTORY
The "Libelle's" treasure of $93,943-08 in coins and silver bars buried on Wake by Captain Tobias was recovered by Captain J.H.G. Johnson and his schooner "Ana" based in Guam by the end of June 1866.
The "Nitro's" survey was to include Pan American's sea plane base for its military value and for developing areas of cooperation with Pan American Airlines and the Navy.
24 Nov. 1985 - A Pan American Airlines B747 came through Wake Island to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Pan American China Clipper Service to the orient.
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 pan american   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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