ENDURING LEGACY
PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE
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.
Memorials for the Pan Am 103 disaster: The Lockerbie, Syracuse University & Arlington National Cemetery, honoring the lives tragically lost in 1988.
Pan Am Historical Foundation installed a new B-314 Clipper model and three historical markers at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in 2021.
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.
"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.
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.
Juan Terry Trippe, King of the Skyways: Retrospective on Trippe’s career and impact on twentieth-century travel, written by Collie Small, 1953 .
Billboards in the grand Portuguese tradition of Azulejos, hand painted, glazed ceramic tile ads are colorful reminders of Pan Am in Portugal.
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.
An Author's Experience: A first-person account by Bob Daley, author of "An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire."
Assistant to JTT, Kathleen Clair, tells her story excerpted from "Pan American World Airways Aviation History through the Words of Its People."
Azores: Strategic Pan Am Stepping-Stones. From the days of his earliest plans for transatlantic air service, Juan Trippe counted on the Azores.
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.
Nothing tells a story better than Ron Davies' Pan Am maps. Caribbean | Rio & Beyond | Jet Routes 1960 | Propliners 1957 | Domestic Routes 1980s.
In 2011 Robert Genna and Ann Blumenstaadt spoke with Milton Hebald, renowned sculptor and creator of the Pan Am’s Worldport Zodiac sculptures.
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.
Updates on the Gene Banning Collection, donated to PAHF, highlight its digitization for broader sharing through the new Clipper Hall exhibits.
Video: A quick look at Juan Trippe's astonishing accomplishments as founder and President of Pan American World Airways.
