ENDURING LEGACY
PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE
Nothing tells a story better than Ron Davies' Pan Am maps. Caribbean | Rio & Beyond | Jet Routes 1960 | Propliners 1957 | Domestic Routes 1980s.
Pan Am Historical Foundation installed a new B-314 Clipper model and three historical markers at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in 2021.
The story of the lost Samoan Clipper and plans leading up to the July 2019 expedition launched by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.
Communing with Ghosts: Peter Leslie's 2015 visit & photos at Foynes Museum's B-314 Yankee Clipper Pan Am replica (Margaret Shaunessey at controls).
R.E.G. Davies' life's work as world's foremost airline historian and curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian, by Dr. Robert Van der Linden.
It was a bright Good Friday in Puerto Rico, April 11, 1952 but Pan Am's DC-4 Clipper Endeavor would never complete another flight.
Richard Edes Harrison was not just a gifted illustrator, he proved to be an innovative and inspired cartographer for Pan Am, with a new worldview.
"There Will Never Be Another Pan Am" by Aviation Historian R.E.G. Davies. Today, Pan Am is still respected in the world of commercial aviation.
An inspiring figure: Pan Am Engineer & VP John Borger earned a Guggenheim Medal in 2003, story by Robert W. Blake & Stanley Gewirtz.
Three December Events: Pearl Harbor, Lockerbie, and Pan Am's closure, forever stir our memories and affection for Pan Am, each and every December.
Assistant to JTT, Kathleen Clair, tells her story excerpted from "Pan American World Airways Aviation History through the Words of Its People."
In 2011 Robert Genna and Ann Blumenstaadt spoke with Milton Hebald, renowned sculptor and creator of the Pan Am’s Worldport Zodiac sculptures.
Meeting Charles Lindbergh, a first-person account excerpted from Ed Spellacy's series on his career with Pan Am, entitled "PanAmusings."
PAHF's "Clipper Winter-Spring 2000" published 747 retrospectives by Bob Blake & John Borger, & the Concorde SST by Paul Roitsch.
An Author's Experience: A first-person account by Bob Daley, author of "An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire."
A Legend: Edmund “Eddie” Allen, Test Pilot. His calm intelligence heard in a radio interview during his first Boeing 314 Clipper test.
Billboards in the grand Portuguese tradition of Azulejos, hand painted, glazed ceramic tile ads are colorful reminders of Pan Am in Portugal.
Until retirement in 2020, former Pan Am B-707-321B Clipper Seven Seas N404PA was a flying electronics lab for MIT's Lincoln Laboratory.
