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You're Invited! Don't Miss the MAT Dedication Reception November 11, 2022, 7:30PM at the Marine Air Terminal, La Guardia. Co-hosted by Pan Am Museum Foundation and Pan Am Historical Foundation. Tickets $15. See more: https://www.panam.org/events/862-mat-invitation

September 11, 1940: An important Pan Am milestone. The day when Pan Am's B-314 "American Clipper" NC 18606, set out to fly the first passengers from San Francisco to Auckland NZ, with Captain Kenneth V. Beer in command .

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

"Pan Am Charters: Routine to Daunting" by Eric Hobson. At Idlewild Airport cancer fighters board chartered PAA "Jet Clipper Conquer Cancer" to attend the 8th International Cancer Congress, July 1962. Photo from University of Miami Special Collections

In Memoriam: Pete Runnette - 1935-2022. A Personal Reflection by Doug Miller.

"LOOKING BACK -- LOOKING FORWARD": The Pan Am Historical Foundation newsletter annoucements & articles, Spring 2022.

The 747's Tumultuous Beginning by Ron Marasco

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

A Visit to the Yankee Clipper life-size model at Foynes Flying Boat Museum by Peter Leslie

A huge step forward for Pan Am took place Aug. 7, 1938 when a Sikorsky S-43 “Baby Clipper” flew from Seattle, WA to link Alaska with the lower 48 states! Master aviator on this high profile survey flight that day was Captain John “Jack” Mattis who led an illustrious 30-year Pan Am career

The Jet Age - Panamac Revisited

Midyear Membership Offer: Support ongoing PAHF history projects!

Join/Renew today through the end of 2023. (Photo: Pan Am Cargo Boeing 747 circa 1970 Courtesy Aeroart)

“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

"Across the Pacific". Moreno/Lyons Productions in Association with The Pan Am Historical Foundation: Info on Streaming options & DVD

A Medal of Honor Recipient, pioneering pilot, & one of the 1st members of the Air Line Pilots Association, (ALPA) Pan Am's Frank Ormsbee flew exploratory missions, opened new routes to So. America & worked to organize pilots. Ormsbee (r) by an S-38 transferring mail bags arriving from Miami for the first Air Mail flight to Santiago Chile from Cristobal, C.Z, 1929.

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 First Art Deco Marine Seabase was built at Dinner Key, now Miami City Hall

Read "A Brief History of Pan Am" by Pan Am Historican Gene Banning

THE ERAS OF PAN AM

PHOTO GALLERIES

PAN AM VIDEO

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Read more first person accounts: My Pan Am Story

In Memoriam: Pete Runnette

SPRING 2022 CLIPPER

PAMF GALA 11-12-2022

A New Clipper at the MAT

Join PAHF thru 2023

PAHF's Banning Collection

Richard Edes Harrison

Ormsbee:Pioneering Pilot

747 Carries On

View from Ketchikan

MAT Dedication 11/11/22

Pan Am Charters

PanAm Alumni - Japan

6 Decades of Soaring

Hawaii Clipper 1938

MAT's Landmark Interior

One Long Day-One Dark Night

Sikorsky's Dream Boats

The MAT Installation

Historic PanAm Insignias

Jeff Kriendler: A Tribute

Riding the Jetstream

Jet Inaugural Reenactment

The Commodore & The President

Juan Trippe Bio (1970)

Critical Stopover

PAA S-40: 4 Engines Out

Britton's Model Universe

Shape of Things to Come

Dancing the Clipper Hula

Eras of Pan Am

History Pathways

News on Pan Am

Pan Am Galleries