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Pan American World Airways expanded its routes during the postwar years to include the newly independent countries of India, Pakistan, and Thailand (formerly Siam). After traveling to India on #PanAm in 1949, Charles Baskerville created this colorful composition. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on August 07, 2024.

model airplane: Pan American Airways, Fokker F.VllA-3m General Machado; 1980 Gift of Jim Lund 2014.173.001 https://t.co/fffQKoLkD6 #PAA #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.

Bixby joined Pan American in 1933 and worked for the airline for the rest of his career, retiring in 1955. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #HaroldBixby #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

This connection led Bixby, at age 43, to accept a position with Pan American Airways (PAA) to manage the airline’s interests in Asia, primarily PAA’s partnership in the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) & opening transpacific flying boat service. #BixbyCollection #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

Our photography essay “Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection, The Photographs” featuring 21 highlights from Harold Bixby’s life with Pan American, is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

The Bixby Collection includes photographs of the aviation scene at Lambert Field in St. Louis in the 1920s, the operations of the China National Aviation Corporation in the 1930s, and the arrival of #PanAm’s inaugural transpacific flight in Manila in 1935. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

The Harold Bixby Collection, acquired by SFO Museum in 2019, contains over five hundred photographic prints and negatives collected by Harold Bixby throughout his career at #PanAm. #BixbyCollection #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

Harold McMillan Bixby, a midwestern businessman with a strong interest in the emerging technology of aviation, worked for Pan American Airways in the 1930s to the 1950s. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

“Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection” is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. Located pre-security in the International Terminal, the Aviation Museum and Library is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 08, 2023.

The last Pan American World Airways flight took off #onthisday in 1991. When #PanAm was founded in 1927, the company’s first president, Juan Trippe, had a dream of building an air transport system across entire oceans. What are your favorite memories of Pan American? #52Objects This tweet was posted on December 04, 2023.

#Onthisday in 1938, Pan American Airways signed a multi-year lease with San Francisco for a base at Treasure Island. In 1935, #PanAm inaugurated the world’s first transoceanic service from Alameda but moved when part of Alameda Island was sold to the US Navy in 1936. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 22, 2023.

This canvas artwork is a one-of-a-kind keepsake that commemorates the closure of Pan American World Airways’ Berlin base in 1991. #52Objects #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 31, 2023.