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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:

Tai Sing Loo Pan Am Clipper Photographs

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-00-00-21
Contents of the Collection The Tai Sing Loo Pan Am Clipper Photographs includes six black-and-white photographs taken by Loo in April 1935 documenting the first Pan American Clipper flight to Hawaii. The images depict the arrival, landing and departure of the plane piloted by Captain Edwin C. Musick. The photographs are numbered and original order was maintained. On the front of each photograph is Loo's name and date; three also include printed captions. Unidentified crew and dignitaries are in four of the images....
Dates: 1935 April
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Janet McMullen Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-08-03
Contents of the Collection The Janet McMullen Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials collected by McMullen during and after her Pan American Airways (PAA) flight attendant career, 1960-1992.Materials include two (2) oversize Pan Am wall calendars (1960 and 1992); Pan Am ephemera, such as luggage tags, advertising brochures, and a 1966 timetable; employee documents, such as retirement information (1979), an orientation booklet, scheduling documents, and a vacation...
Dates: 1960-1992
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Marilyn Meehan Pan American Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-01-22
Contents of the Collection The Marilyn Meehan Pan American Flight Attendant Collection holds six color photographs of Marilyn Meehan, a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways from 1973-1980. Two 3x3 inch Polaroid snapshots depict Meehan in her uniform in 1973. Two prints are 5x7 inch photographic portraits that also feature Meehan in her uniform. One of the portraits has a caption on verso: "Marilyn Meehan / 1974 / Pan Am stewardess / 22 years old." The remaining two prints are 4x6 inches and depict Meehan...
Dates: 1973-1974, 2001
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2008-04-24
Content Description The P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus is a small collection consisting of four Pan Am Special Business Class dinner menu cards with commemorative illustrations of historic flights of Pam Am Clippers on the covers. The menus were acquired between 1984-1985 aboard Pan Am 747 flights between JFK (New York) and Heathrow (London) airports. The historic flights depicted include a Sikorsky S-38 Amphibian piloted by Charles Lindbergh delivering air mail to the Canal Zone from Miami,...
Dates: 1984-1985
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Murray Stuart and Noel Rae Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-02-23
Abstract

Native Washingtonians Murray Stuart (1909-1960), and Noel Rae (b. 1909), married in 1929 and were both pilots. The collection contains clippings, photographs, correspondence, business records, and certificates relating to both their flight careers and personal lives.

Dates: circa 1920s-1973, 1999
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership cards

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-07-08
Content Description The Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership cards is a small collection consisting of two faux membership cards produced by Pan Am circa 1968-1971 for the "First Moon Flights" Club. One side of the card has room for a "member" to sign and has a pre-printed signature of James Montgomery, Vice President of Sales, along with an illustration of people in spacesuits walking on the Moon. Each card is individually stamped in red with a member number; these cards are 56168 and 56169. The back of...
Dates: circa 1969-1970
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan American Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1989-05-23
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of three postcards for Pan American Airways and a photograph related to Pacific Alaska Airways. Of the postcards, two feature a Pan American Airways DC-6 with a text description on the reverse promoting the addition of "Super-6 Clippers" to the fleet, and the third depicts the "Sleeperette" lounge chair available on "President" flights. They are dated circa 1950s. The photograph depicts Pacific Alaska Airways personnel in front of a Lockheed 10 Electra,...
Dates: 1934, 1962
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-00-00-21
Contents of the Collection

The Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu is a small collection is comprised of one folded-card dinner menu from the inaugural Air Mail flight from San Francisco to New Zealand on Pan American Airways Clipper "American," on July 12, 1940. The menu was signed by members of the crew, including Captain J. H. Tilton, while it was docked at the first stop on its route: Honolulu.

Dates: 1940 July 12
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan American World Airways booklet

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-08-23-B
Contents of the Collection

This small collection is comprised of a twenty-three page booklet on the history of Pan American Airways, dated 1958. The history begins with Pan American's first flight from Key West to Havana in 1927 and its expansion of routes into the Caribbean, South America, China, and Europe, as well as the introduction of jets into service in 1958. The back of the booklet includes a table of growth in air speed, route miles, passengers, miles flown, and employees between 1927 and 1958.

Dates: 1958
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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