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Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation. Pan American Airways began service in Central America with the Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, a robust, three-engine, twelve-passenger airliner affectionately known as the “Tin Goose.” “Pan American Airways in Central America” is on display pre-security on the departures level of Terminal 3 and online at: http://bit.ly/PAAinCA This image was posted on November 01, 2021.

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Pan American Airways. It is related to Pan American World Airways (the company) .