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This collection consists of one black and white photograph showing a Pan American Airways (Pan Am) building in Cuba.
Pan American Airways (Pan Am) was active in the airline industry from 1927, when it established a regular scheduled international service, to its bankruptcy in late 1991. Pan Am was the first American airline to operate a permanent international air service. From its first route between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, Pan Am extended its routes into the rest of the Caribbean, Central America and South America. In 1936, Pan Am inaugurated passenger service in the Pacific, and began service in the Atlantic in 1939. Pan Am started around-the-world commercial air service in 1947. Besides setting many 'firsts' with routes, Pan Am also established 'firsts' in the aircraft technology they chose, such as being the first to use Boeing 747s in regular scheduled service.
NASM.2023.0061
Circa 1944
David Hutchinson, Gift, 2023, NASM.2023.0061.
0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one black and white photograph measuring 3.5 by 2.5 inches showing a Pan American Airways (Pan Am) building that, according to the handwritten notation on the back, was taken in Cuba.
Collection is a single item.
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Pan American Airways (Pan Am) Cuba Photograph, NASM.2023.0061, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Airlines
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