"This Valentine’s Card from circa 1940 features an illustration of a Pan American Airways Boeing 314 with a caption on the back of the card that reads, “This is just to make it “plane” that all I’m thinking of is just how awful hard I wish that I could “land” your love!”
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#OnThisDay in 1923, Igor Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation (later renamed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company, followed by the reorganized Sikorsky Aviation Corporation).
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#OnThisDay in 1935, the first of three Martin M-130 flying boats was delivered to Pan American Airways.
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#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled flight from Treasure Island departed.
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#OnThisDay in 1960, the Pan American Worldport terminal opened at Idlewild Airport, now called John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
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#Onthisday in 1929, the first Fairchild 71 was delivered to Pan American Airways.
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#Onthisday in 1941, Pan American Airways’ Captain John Tilton departed San Francisco for the first airmail service to Fiji.
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