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PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE

Remembering Juan Trippe, Time Magazine Cover, March 1949

Juan Terry Trippe, King of the Skyways: Retrospective on Trippe’s career and impact on twentieth-century travel, written by Collie Small, 1953 .

Read more: Remembering JTT

Juan Trippe A Short Tribute blog

Video: A quick look at Juan Trippe's astonishing accomplishments as founder and President of Pan American World Airways.

Read more: JTT: Video Tribute

john borger pan am engineer blog

An inspiring figure: Pan Am Engineer & VP John Borger earned a Guggenheim Medal in 2003, story by Robert W. Blake & Stanley Gewirtz.

Read more: John Borger, Engineer

Juan Trippes Assistant

Assistant to JTT, Kathleen Clair, tells her story excerpted from "Pan American World Airways Aviation History through the Words of Its People."

Read more: JTT's Assistant

Capt Gene Banning Europe late 1940s media

Updates on the Gene Banning Collection, donated to PAHF, highlight its digitization for broader sharing through the new Clipper Hall exhibits.

Read more: Banning Collection

Gerry Lister Anne Whyte collection blog

Gerry Lister was the curator of the Clipper Museum in Long Island City, becoming Pan Am’s official historian, an inspirational role then, and now.

Read more: Pan Am's Gerry Lister

REG Davies blog pic

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.

Read more: Ron (R.E.G.) Davies

Lockerbie Rainbow captured December 1988 following the tragedy

Memorials for the Pan Am 103 disaster: The Lockerbie, Syracuse University  & Arlington National Cemetery, honoring the lives tragically lost in 1988.

Read more: Pan Am 103 Memorials

Pan Am December Anniversaries blog

Three December Events: Pearl Harbor, Lockerbie, and Pan Am's closure, forever stir our memories and affection for Pan Am, each and every December.

Read more: Remembrances

Pan Am M 130 Hawaii Clipper June 1938 blog

Mystery Still With Us, the disappearance of Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper on July 29th, 1938, with an ongoing search by the The Lost Clipper.

Read more: Mystery Still With Us

West of Tutuila UPDATES 600X432

A deep-sea search that's ongoing: Air/Sea Heritage's hunt for PAA S-42B Samoan Clipper, piloted by Ed Musick and lost in a 1938 crash in Samoa.

Read more: Samoan Clipper Hunt

The Pan Am Museum in Garden City New York, exhibits, events, podcasts.

The Pan Am Museum, Garden City, NY: Sponsoring unique exhibits, award-winning podcasts, events & cruises related to Pan American.

Read more: Pan Am Museum

Richard Edes Harrison image Fortune blog

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.

Read more: A New Worldview

A Foynes museum visit 2015

Communing with Ghosts: Peter Leslie's 2015 visit & photos at Foynes Museum's B-314 Yankee Clipper Pan Am replica (Margaret Shaunessey at controls).

Read more: Touching the Past

Pan Am Max Poster blog

"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.

Read more: Never Another Pan Am

Ed Musick blogpic

January 11 marks the anniversary of tragic loss of Ed Musick and the crew of Pan Am's Samoan Clipper that crashed in Pago Pago in 1938.

Read more: A debt to Ed Musick

Samoan Clipper at Pago Pago (Pan Am Historical Foundation collection).

The story of the lost Samoan Clipper and plans leading up to the July 2019 expedition launched by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.

Read more: Lost at Pago Pago

Eddie Allen, Test Pilot

A Legend: Edmund “Eddie” Allen, Test Pilot. His calm intelligence heard in a radio interview during his first Boeing 314 Clipper test.

Read more: Edmund "Eddie" Allen

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