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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 was also one of the first three airlines to sign options for the Concorde, but like other airlines that took out options—with the exception of British Overseas Airways Corporation and Air France—it did not actually purchase the supersonic jet.
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Pan Am was founded by aviator Juan Trippe in 1927 as a seaplane service from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba.
Pan Am's European routes were sold to Delta Airlines, and its Latin American routes were sold to American Airlines.
In 1998, Pan Am was launched again with a fleet of seven Boeing 727's, flying to nine cities in New England, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pan_american_world_airways.html   (479 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Pan Am also lost its distinction the United States' official international airline: first American Overseas Airways and later to a number of designated to compete with Pan Am in markets such as TWA to Europe and Northwest Orient to East Asia.
Pan Am continued to incur heavy losses only survived until December 1991 when Delta to inject any more cash into the The airline's Latin American routes from Miami International Airport were sold to United Airlines.
In 1998 the Pan Am brand was sold Guilford Transportation Industries a railroad company headed Tim Mellon of the Pittsburgh bank family launched Pan Am III with a fleet seven Boeing 727 's flying to nine cities in New England Florida and Puerto Rico.
www.freeglossary.com /Pan_American_Airlines   (1616 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways
Pan American Airways is seeking to begin flying to the Dominican Republic from four cities -- including Miami -- as part of a plan to establish an affiliated airline to serve Latin America and the Caribbean.
Pan Am is creating a separate carrier operating as Pan American World Airways, headquartered in the Dominican Republic, which would use a fleet of planes recently purchased from United Airlines.
Pan Am is taking delivery of 24 planes during the next few months from United and plans to fly 15 of them in the Latin operation and scrap the other nine for parts, Fortnam said.
www.pan-american.de /artikel-focuscaribean.htm   (604 words)

  
 PBS - Chasing the Sun - Pan Am
The history of Pan American Airways is inextricably linked to the expansive vision and singular effort of one man - Juan Trippe.
Fortunately for Pan Am, a pilot with his Fairchild seaplane arrived at Key West and was willing to carry the mail to Cuba for the start up operation.
Pan Am added both the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 to its fleet.
www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/companies/panam.html   (1012 words)

  
 PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS TRI-MOTOR
The founder of PAA, based in Key West, FL in the 1920's and '30's, was the dynamic Juan Trippe, who was characterized by "FDR" as one of "The Yale Mafia".
PAA's first overseas venture was oriented towards Central and South America, with PAA routes in eastern South America with the western South American routes covered by a joint venture between PAA and W.R. Grace or Grace Shipping Lines of New York, NY.
The maiden flight of PAA 5-At N.9661, exemplified by this Spec Cast Bank Model, was commanded by the renowned aviator Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.
www.aikensairplanes.com /speccast/panam.htm   (569 words)

  
 University of Miami Libraries Special Collection Division: Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records
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 carried military personnel and cargo; ferried bombers and aircraft; and built fifty airports in fifteen countries.
The records of Pan American World Airways, Inc., begin with the company's founding in 1927, and provide a fascinating perspective on the growth and development of a modern aviation corporation.
www.library.miami.edu /archives/panam/pan.html   (1538 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Although Pan Am lobbied intensively to enhance its position as the nation's international airline, it lost that distinction—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, Braniff to South America, and Northwest Orient to East Asia.
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.
Another Pan Am 747, the Clipper Victor, was involved in the Tenerife disaster on March 27, 1977, the worst disaster in aviation history (excepting the events of 9/11).
www.voyager.in /Pan_American_Airlines   (4143 words)

  
 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.
Pan Am's China Clipper services, its expansion into South America, its pioneering partnership with Boeing, its ambitious routes—such as its round-the-world jet service inaugurated in October 1959, its flashy advertising campaigns, and its reputation for good service, all made the company a leader and a trendsetter.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Commercial_Aviation/Pan_Am/Tran12.htm   (1533 words)

  
 Spotlight on Golden Age Advertising - Pan-American World Airways
Pan American World Airways emerged in 1927, the culmination of one man's unique vision, a few single-engine airframes and a single route--Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba.
Pan Am pioneered routes across the world's oceans, seas, cultures and continents, ultimately conducting daily flight operations literally circling the globe.
Pan American World Airways continued to out-negotiate their early competitors throughout Central America and South America, forming alliances along the way with Colombia's Avianca Airliines (the western hemisphere's oldest operating airline, tracing it's foundation to 1919), and eventually acquiring 64% of Avianca's stock.
www.digitaldeliftp.com /LookAround/advertspot_panam.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Scripophily - Pan American World Airways Stock Certificate
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.
www.scripophily.net /panam.html   (2931 words)

  
 Free Stock Certificate
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 was the first airline to order the Boeing 747, a plane that flew more passengers faster, higher and farther than its predecessors.
On May 1, 1976, Pan Am's "Liberty Clipper," one of the new 747 SP's, left New York and travelled east on a record breaking around the world trip.
www.thesharegallery.co.uk /free_pan_american_airways.htm   (846 words)

  
 Panagra, Pan American Grace Airways History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was on September 13, 1928, that a tiny single-engined Fairchild monoplane with four passengers and a few letters took off from a racetrack in Lima and landed in a soccer field in Talara, Peru.
This was the inauspicious beginning of scheduled commercial air transportation along the west coast of South America and the start of Panagra (Pan American Grace Airways).
Panagra was the first airline in South America to develop and apply airways weather forecasts - and professional meteorologists furnish today all company planes with complete reports on the weather en-route and at destination at all hours.
www.braniffinternational.org /history/panagra.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Pan American Airways Boeing S-307 Stratoliner Clipper Flying Cloud
The prototype S-307 registration number NX-19901--intended for Pan American Airways--flew on December 31, 1938, but crashed on March 18, 1939 during a demonstration flight for airline representatives.
Pan American Airways took delivery of NC-19903 and two other S-307s in 1940.
During World War II, it was flown by Pan Am in South America under the direction of the US Army Air Forces Air Transport Command.
www.nasm.si.edu /getinvolved/membership/pevents/boeing307.htm   (967 words)

  
 Index
This web page is a tribute to the airline that would literally open the world to aviation.
Pan American World Airways began life in 1927 with a vision, some single engine aircraft and a single route from Key West to Havana.
Pan Am launched more new aircraft development than any other airline in history.
www.geocities.com /paa_clippers   (102 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways
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.
Some pictures from a filmstrip that Pan American produced in 1948 for use by grade schools.
www.west.net /~ke6jqp/panam.htm   (236 words)

  
 Pan Am Documentary
Like the nearly 2000 Pan Am employees and Pan Am fans, our Project will celebrate the greatest adventure story of the 20th Century, the saga of Pan American World Airways.
One of the most moving events at the Reunion which the crew covered was a ceremony held at the Lockerbie Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery honoring the victims of the Lockerbie terrorist bombing.
He is co-author of Pan Africa- Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am.
www.panamdoc.com /reunion/reunion_shoot.html   (318 words)

  
 PanAmAir.org - Pan American World Airways, Queen of The Skies PAN AM
PBS TELEVISION: Is creating a documentary entitled "They Made America" The film profiles innovators who have changed U.S. history, and one of the individuals featured is Juan Trippe.
PBS is interested in pictures or old film of Pan Am and its employees from the 1950s and 1960s and talking to women who
worked as stewardesses at Pan Am during he 1950s and 1960s to learn more about the culture of flying and specifically how individuals responded to the introduction of the 707.
www.panamair.org /OLDSITE/index.htm   (265 words)

  
 PanAmAir.org - Pan American World Airways, Queen of The Skies PAN AM
Discovery Channel is producing a documentary about the 1977 air disaster at Tenerife involving a Pan Am 747 and KLM 747.
Pan Am's Early Days and Firsts, Lindbergh and Trippe, Chairmen, Unions, Strikes, Supersonic, Pan Am Building, Fall of Pan Am, much more!
Pan Am Commercials, Pan Am Songs and Pan Am Movies.
www.panamair.org   (284 words)

  
 Pan American Airways Postcards
Pan Am Airlines Postcard of 747 in 1973
Pan Am Airways postcard of DC7 in 1950's
Pan American Airways Postcard DC4 - 1946 Image
www.scripophily.net /avpos.html   (364 words)

  
 The Pan American Airways Clipper at Treasure Island - 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Pan American Airways Clipper at Treasure Island - 1939
Pan American World Airways' Clipper in the seaplane harbor at Treasure Island about 1940.
The site of the 1939-1940 fairs was to become San Francisco International Airport in 1941.
www.sfmuseum.org /photos2/clipper.html   (202 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways
To preserve the heritage of Pan American World Airways...
Comments about the Pan Am Heritage Web Site may be sent to
Click Here for information on how to join the ring or look at a complete list of Aero Ring members.
www.panam.org /default1.asp   (174 words)

  
 Pan Am: Time Flies and You're Invited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Pan Am name and globe logo are a registered trademark of
Pan American Airways, Inc., a division of Guilford Transportation.
be an agent of Pan American Airways, Inc., Pan Am Corp. (Florida) or the estate of Pan American World Airways.
www.panamhistory.com   (106 words)

  
 Pan Am - Pan American Airways (1) - PAA
Pan Am - Pan American Airways (1) - PAA
Click for larger view plus a view of Pan American's first baggage label
visit the Pan Am page of Perry Sloan's "AirTimes" site.
www.timetableimages.com /ttimages/pa.htm   (163 words)

  
 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Notable Features About Pan American Airways VA Historical: Planes and routes from 1927 to 1991
Realistic: Flights flown in real world weather and time
Modern: Some non-historical airplanes and routes added to take advantage of FS upgrades
www.paavirtual.org   (37 words)

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