ENDURING LEGACY
PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE
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.
"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.
Assistant to JTT, Kathleen Clair, tells her story excerpted from "Pan American World Airways Aviation History through the Words of Its People."
Meeting Charles Lindbergh, a first-person account excerpted from Ed Spellacy's series on his career with Pan Am, entitled "PanAmusings."
Three December Events: Pearl Harbor, Lockerbie, and Pan Am's closure, forever stir our memories and affection for Pan Am, each and every December.
PAHF's "Clipper Winter-Spring 2000" published 747 retrospectives by Bob Blake & John Borger, & the Concorde SST by Paul Roitsch.
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.
In 2011 Robert Genna and Ann Blumenstaadt spoke with Milton Hebald, renowned sculptor and creator of the Pan Am’s Worldport Zodiac sculptures.
Revisiting Pan Am's Cuban Roots, by Ed Trippe. The rich history behind the beginnings of Pan American Airways in Cuba.
Azores: Strategic Pan Am Stepping-Stones. From the days of his earliest plans for transatlantic air service, Juan Trippe counted on the Azores.
An inspiring figure: Pan Am Engineer & VP John Borger earned a Guggenheim Medal in 2003, story by Robert W. Blake & Stanley Gewirtz.
Pan Am Historical Foundation installed a new B-314 Clipper model and three historical markers at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in 2021.
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.
