The Pan Am Building at 200 Park Avenue, opened in March 1963 with some intriguing real estate history

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The entire series on one DVD! PBS documentary “Across the Pacific” by Moreno/Lyons Productions, in association with the Pan Am Historical Foundation. Order through PayPal - $20 plus shipping & handling. Streaming on PBS.org/PBS Passport/ AmazonPrime/iTunes

“I may lose battles, but no one will ever see me lose minutes.” Pan Am's Dassault Falcon 20 Business Jet Promotion & Napolean's Carriage

Pan Am, JFK & the Concorde - A Plane Too Soon

A New Large Scale Model of Pan Am's Boeing 314"Yankee Clipper" Now Graces the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia.

Pan Am’s Art Deco Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia today features the evocative WPA Mural "Flight" by James Brooks and a newly installed B-314 "Yankee Clipper" Model commissioned by the Pan Am Historical Foundation thanks to ongoing support from our members & donors!

Pan Am's Juan Trippe and Charles Lindbergh with a Sikorsky S-38 flying boat. "Next Stop: Paramaribo" -- 1929 -- with the Trippes and the Lindberghs

Pan Am's First Art Deco Marine Seabase was built at Dinner Key, now Miami City Hall

Just Published! Al Topping's New Book, "Wings of Freedom". On April 24,1975 Pan Am operated its final departure from South Vietnam. Six
days later the North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the city... Order the Book Now! And Caps commemorating "Wings of Freedom"

"Pan Am's First Lady: The Diary of Betty Stettinius Trippe" -- a beautiful hardcover filled with Pan Am history, published in 1996 by Paladwr Press and available on our website $20/free shipping to US. (Please inquire about international orders).

On February 4, 1946, Pan Am made its first transatlantic flight with a “Connie,” setting new speed records in the process.

Link to Igor Sikorsky's Flying Boats: Evolution of a Dream. Photo: Pan Am Sikorsky S-38 from the Jahncke, PAHF Collection

Mission to China, Part 4: The final chapter of Eric Hobson's deep dive into the story of Harold M. Bixby. Photo: M-130 Philippine Clipper over Macao in 1936 (Courtesy of Jon Krupnick Collection).

Pan Am Ad featuring Douglas Super-6 Clipper Rainbow Tourist Fares to Europe, 1950

3 Years Ago! Searching for the Samoan Clipper: The story behind the July 2019 undersea hunt off American Samoa for Pan Am's lost S-42B piloted by Ed Musick in 1938, by Russ Matthews, Pres. & Co-Founder of Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.

The Story of DC-3 "Clipper Tabitha May" in Pan Am colors, 1st of 15 in the "D-Day Squadron" to arrive in Europe after crossing the Atlantic for D-Day's 75th Anniversary & the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift! Photo & story by Robert Randazzo

The story of Historic Flight Foundation's C-47 N877MG - Pan Am CNAC #100 - 1 of 15 US C-47/DC-3's heading to Normandy in the D-Day Squadron. Photo by James Polivka.

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