So cool to see depictions of fashionable folks in 1934 boarding their plane...that is docked on water! http://t.co/8x4paRFlvD #PanAm #avgeek
This tweet was posted on September 26, 2013.
Starting in the 1960s, airlines, including #PanAm, started to offer inflight films of their destinations. #paxex
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2016.
Taking from the tradition of the globe and windswept typeface that Pan Am had used since the 1920s, they rendered the globe in gridlines, positioned a tightened logotype at the equator, and lightened the company color from navy to sky blue. #DefunctThursday #PanAm
This tweet was posted on August 18, 2022.
Taking off from Idlewild airport in NY #onthisday in 1958, #PanAm became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707. 111 passengers boarded the jetliner, named “Clipper America,” bound for Le Bourget Airport, Paris. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on October 26, 2021.
That #PanAm globe was made for the 1939 Golden Gate Int'l Expo at Treasure Island! MT @edbierman: Photo @ SFO Museum http://t.co/8FyAh6XL
This tweet was posted on April 09, 2012.
The Aviation Museum & Library will be closed tomorrow, but all other exhibits are open. Happy holidays! http://t.co/85Xg9kUA4y #PanAm
This tweet was posted on December 24, 2014.
The B-314 was introduced to Pan Am's Pacific Division and used to open its Atlantic service in 1939. Here, the Yankee Clipper is shown over Washington D.C. and the Empire State Building. #WingWednesday #avgeek #PanAm
This tweet was posted on March 17, 2021.
The Boeing 707 and 747, introduced by #PanAm in 1958 and 1970 respectively, each revolutionized the aviation industry. Check out the difference in sizes of these iconic planes. #avgeek #aviation
This tweet was posted on March 01, 2018.
The Martin Model 130 flying boat was designed to meet #PanAm's requirements for a long-range, transoceanic aircraft to cross the expanse of the Pacific. It had a clean, aerodynamic design and was equipped with “sea wings” for buoyancy, instead of sponsons. #WingWednesday #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on March 03, 2021.
The North Haven passed under an unfinished S.F. Bay Bridge en route to establish Pacific bases for #PanAm in 1935.
This tweet was posted on December 14, 2015.
The Pan Am Historical Foundation (@panamhistory) was established #onthisday in 1992 by a group of former #PanAm employees to preserve and promote the unique heritage of Pan American World Airways, Inc. Thank you for your donations to the SFO Museum collection. #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2020.
The Pan American base on Treasure Island included the administration building and a maintenance hangar. #PanAm
This tweet was posted on January 15, 2016.
The Sikorsky S-40 was developed in response to requests from #PanAm president Juan T. Trippe for a high-capacity flying boat. With a cabin capable of carrying 38 passengers, it was nearly double the capacity of the airline’s next largest flying boat. #WingWednesday #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on January 27, 2021.
The Sikorsky S-42 was developed to meet requirements of #PanAm president Juan Trippe for a large, long-range, trans-oceanic flying boat. Designed by Igor Sikorsky, with input from Charles Lindbergh, it could carry a crew of 4 and 32 passengers up to 1,200 miles. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on February 17, 2021.
The US plans to re-establish regular mail service to Cuba by direct flights, first pioneered by #PanAm in the 1920s.
This tweet was posted on January 12, 2016.
The amphibious Sikorsky S-38 in both the S-38A and S-38B versions, affectionally called the “Flying Duck,” became the mainstay of Pan American Airways’s fleet, laying the foundations of the Caribbean and Central American networks in 1929 and 1930. #AvGeek #Sikorsky #PanAm
This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.
The first #PanAm delivery of a Douglas DC-3 was #onthisday in 1937. With its aerodynamically superior design the DC-3 revolutionized the airline industry in the late 1930s and was the first airliner to make a profit from passenger service Did you ever fly on a DC-3?
This tweet was posted on October 01, 2019.
The first contract regular airmail route to Cuba was awarded to Pan American Airways in 1928. #PanAm
This tweet was posted on January 12, 2016.
The history of one of the United States’ most storied airlines, Pan American Airways, stretches back to 1927 and will be a multi-part #DefunctThursday. Founded in 1927 by Juan Trippe, #PanAm grew rapidly, purchasing or partnering with numerous competing airlines along the way.
This tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
The late Cuban-born designer Adolfo Sardiña, who was born #onthisday in 1933, established his New York salon in 1963. His uniform program for Pan American’s 6,800 flight attendants in 1980 has Adolfo’s “romantic look” of simple, elegant design. #Adolfo #PanAm #AvGeek #uniform
This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.