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Pan American Airways inaugurated its first scheduled passenger flight on January 16, 1928, with an eight-passenger Fokker F.VIIa/3m. Flying from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, the 90-mile trip took just under 90 minutes. #PanAm #PAA #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.

#OnThisDay in 1934, the Martin M-130 took its first test flight in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest commercial airplane when delivered in 1935, only three Martin M-130 flying boats were built. #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 30, 2022.

Pan American World Airways used McCoy’s watercolors on menus, prints, advertisements, postcards, and other promotional items. Check out more than eighty of these objects here: https://t.co/9V9LUO4Gd9 #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.

In 1962, Pan American World Airways commissioned McCoy to produced eight paintings depicting “Historical First Flights of Pan American Clippers.” Later #PanAm commissioned additional works that included aircraft from its fleet of jet clippers. #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.

On the afternoon of November 22, 1935, a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 named “China Clipper”, lifted off from the waters of the San Francisco Bay into the sky and history books as the inaugural scheduled transpacific airmail flight. #AvGeek #ChinaClipper #PanAm This tweet was posted on November 22, 2022.

Our exhibition detailing the entire adventurous endeavor, "China Clipper", is online at: https://t.co/MPq52u5pOS You can also read the entire exhibition catalog and watch all three segments of “Clipper Glory” there! #AvGeek #ChinaClipper #PanAm This tweet was posted on November 22, 2022.

Pan American Airways was awarded a lucrative airmail route contract from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, in 1927. Unforeseen circumstances led them to hire outside pilot Cy Caldwell and his Fairchild FC-2 inaugurating Pan Am's first service #onthisday in 1927. #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.

How many menus did Pan Am issue? A lot! Browse through over 500 of them in our online database: https://t.co/F4qGotpYp7 #AvGeek #PanAm #PanAmerican #Menu This tweet was posted on October 03, 2022.

Along with skyrocketing oil prices, the once profitable routes National operated became unprofitable under Pan Am, which flew its last flight on December 4, 1991. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.

As Pan American was not licensed to operate domestic routes within in the United States, the company purchased National Airlines in 1980. This did not prove be a good financial takeover as the company would have liked. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.

Although Pan American World Airways experienced unprecedented success in the 1960s and 70s, by the end of the 1980s the company was struggling. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.

This new servicemark was more distinct, particularly at a distance, and it became one of the most widely recognized in the world. #DefunctThursday #PanAm This tweet was posted on August 18, 2022.