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Pan American World Airways, Inc

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1927 - 1991

Historical Note

Pan American World Airways was established in 1927. More commonly known as Pan Am, the airline operated domestic and international flights, with a focus on the Caribbean islands, Mexico, Central America and South America. In January 1980, it merged with National Airlines. It ceased operations in late 1991 due to financial problems.

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Catherine Bliss Pan American World Airways timetables

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1987-07-13
Contents of the Collection

This small collection is comprised of two Pan American Airways timetables titled "The Air-Way to Havana" for flights from Key West, Florida to Cuba in the late 1920's. Timetables are printed in color and feature black and white exterior and interior images of a Pan American Airways Fokker F.VIIa Trimotor, eight of which were used for this flight service.

Dates: Circa 1928
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-06-05
Contents of the Collection The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...
Dates: circa 1940s-1980s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23
Abstract

The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.

Dates: 1910s-2020s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

William Hough "Bill" Cook Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-10-26
Abstract

The William Hough “Bill” Cook, Jr. Papers are comprised of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia pertaining to the life and work of Bill Cook, Jr. A significant portion of this collection is made up of correspondence, both personal and professional. Major topics include the Boeing high speed wind tunnel, the B-29, B-47, and B-17 bombers, the development of the YC-14 short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft, and research on supersonic transport.

Dates: 1925-2012; Majority of material found within 1938-1974
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Jeffry Culver Boeing Field Negatives

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-01-29
Contents of the Collection The Jeffry Culver Boeing Field Negatives is comprised of 22 black-and-white negatives taken at King County International Airport, otherwise known as Boeing Field, by Culver in 1970. The images are 35mm and were taken for a photography class while Culver was a student at Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington. The images depict stationary aircraft at the airport. Many of the aircraft views are obscured or from a distance. Some images include people and or buildings in the background....
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1982-02-11-A
Content Description The Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book is a small collection consisting of one book that Dale used as a travel diary from 1932-1969. The book is a copy of Airman's World published by William Morrow in New York in 1933. Dale recorded all the flights she took throughout the pages of the book. She noted in the page margins the origins and destinations of her flights, occasionally recorded the date, and had...
Dates: 1932-1969
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Marilyn (Chittick) Deel Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box One
Identifier: 2012-08-02
Contents of the Collection The collection is comprised of materials, including scrapbook pages and loose photographs as well as two clippings, related to Marilyn (Chittick) Deel and her time as a flight attendant and purser for Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), 1959-1961. The bulk of the collection are the scrapbook pages. The pages are black paper and primarily hold photographs using photo corners, tape, and/or glue. It also holds a few pieces of ephemera in the form of correspondence and clippings....
Dates: 1959-1961
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert Dempster Airline Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-03-28
Contents of the Collection

The Robert Dempster Airline ephemera is a small collection comprised of assorted airline schedules/timetables and safety cards ranging from the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection also contains a poster for a parade for Astronaut Dick Gordon through Seattle, Washington in 1966.

Dates: 1950s-1980s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Muriel McAllister Dunn Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box One
Identifier: 1999-08-17
Contents of the Collection The Muriel McAllister Dunn Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection comprised of textual materials relating to Dunn's 1953-1957 flight attendant career with Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). The materials were collected by Dunn during her employment and include correspondence discussing stewardess requirements; employee training materials, including a manual that includes sections on meal service, DC-6 and DC-7 aircraft information, meteorology,...
Dates: 1953-1957
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Edmond B. Abbott Pan Am Airways Clipper Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1991-09-23-A
Contents of the Collection

The Edmond B. Abbott Pan Am Airways Clipper Photograph Collection is a small collection that consists of correspondence from Edmund Abbott to Aggie and John Diebold in 1984 along with two black-and-white 7x9" photographs of Pan American's amphibious Clipper aircraft, taken in Florida, 1937. One photograph features a Pan Am Airways Sikorsky S-42 on a runway. The other photograph features a Pan Am Airways Sikorsky S-40 docked with passengers boarding.

Dates: 1937, 1984
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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