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Philippine Air Lines (PAL) was founded #onthisday in 1941 by various businessmen, including Andrés Soriano. Soriano, a Spanish-Filipino businessman, was president of the San Miguel brewery and loaned his personal Beech 18 for PAL's start up. By 1948, PAL was flying DC-6s from Manila to SFO via Guam, Wake Island, and Honolulu, a similar route to the one used by the Pan American Airways’ transpacific Clipper flying boats during the late 1930s and early ‘40s. Have you ever flown on Philippine Air Lines? Image: Philippine Air Lines postcard, early 1950s. Gift of Thomas G. Dragges. 2015.166.1276
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