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Nine days after their first ever service, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled mail service departed from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, #onthisday in 1927. Pan American's first aircraft was a Fokker F-VIIa/3m. This Fokker, registration number NC 53, shown here, inaugurated Pan Am's first scheduled flight carrying airmail from the United States to Cuba. The airplane was subsequently christened the “General Machado,” in honor of Cuba’s president. Image: Pan American Airways, Fokker Trimotor, 1927. Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family. 2012.149.0861
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This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:
Pan American Airways.
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Pan American World Airways (the company)
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