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The eight-passenger Fokker F-7 inaugurated Pan Am’s first scheduled passenger flight from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, on January 16, 1928. The three-engine plane made the 90-mile trip in about an hour, opening a network that later extended throughout the Caribbean to South America, across the Pacific and, finally, the Atlantic. #OnThisDay Pan American Airways, Fokker F.VII, Cuba inaugural flight 1928 SFO Museum Collection Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family 2012.149.0864 This image was posted on January 16, 2016.