loading image
Midway Atoll, also called Midway Island, is part of the territory now called the United States Minor Outlying Islands. It was utilized by Pan American Airways as an island stop on their transpacific route to Asia from the 1930s to the 1950s. As its name suggests, it’s roughly halfway between the continents of Asia and North America. Midway was an important base for Pan Am’s transpacific flying boat routes on the leg between Hawai’i and Wake Island. Midway remains an important breeding ground for the Laysan albatross. They inhabit the entire island, including human settlements. Their awkwardness on land and behavioral antics entertained residents and visiting passengers earning them the nickname “gooney bird.” Tourists are no longer allowed on Midway. It now part of the 140,000-square-mile Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and home to 70% of the world’s Laysan albatross population, whose individuals can live to 55 years or more. Image: Pan American’s “Airways Inn” with gooney birds on the lawn, Midway Island, c. 1940. Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family. 2012.149.0284
This image was posted on November 07, 2019.
Similar Instagram posts
Midway Atoll, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, was used by Pan American Airways as an island stop on their transpacific flights from California to the Philippines.
This image was posted on February 09, 2016.
Midway Atoll, also called Midway Island, now part of the territory called the United States Minor Outlying Islands, was utilized by Pan American Airways as an island stop on their transpacific route to Asia from the 1930s to the 1950s.
This image was posted on July 30, 2018.
#avgeek #panam #environment #albatross #midwayatoll #midway #threatenedspecies #nationalmonument #wildliferefuge
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, Florida was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation history when it opened in 1934.
This image was posted on March 25, 2020.
#avgeek #paa #panam #miami #dinnerkey #florida #museumfromhome
As the commercial aviation industry grew in the early 1930s, it became apparent that San Francisco Airport needed to enlarge and enhance their passenger facilities.
This image was posted on March 16, 2021.
#terminaltuesday #sfohistory #airport #airportarchitechture #1930s
A seldom-seen photo of SFO’s first two administration buildings, which briefly coexisted side-by-side.
This image was posted on May 11, 2017.
#throwbackthursday #tbt #sfohistory #sfhistory #avgeek #aviationhistory #sfoat90
This photo from 1938 shows the second passenger terminal at SFO which was constructed the year before, in 1937, and four hangars.
This image was posted on October 14, 2018.
#sfohistory #throwbackthursday #tbt #avgeek #aerial #aerialphoto #avgeek
#Onthisday in 1929, Charles Lindbergh piloted a Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, named "Mexico" and painted with C.M.A. and Pan American Airways markings, on the first southbound airmail service from Brownsville Municipal Airport in Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico City, via Tampico.
This image was posted on March 10, 2019.
#avgeek #brownsville #airport #texas #paa #panam #charleslindbergh #aviationhistory
This photo shows the newly constructed 1937 passenger terminal and four hangars.
This image was posted on February 16, 2017.
This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:
Pan American Airways.
It is related to
Pan American World Airways (the company)
.