90 YEARS AGO

Pan Am in 1935

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Pan American Airways operations in its dramatic 8th year

& its people, aircraft and far-flung destinations.

JANUARY 1935

“Betting on the Future”

FEBRUARY 1935

“The Way Home”

MARCH 1935

 “A Royal Airline”

"Endurance Tests"

APRIL 1935

"Friends Are Lost"

"Alameda to Honolulu"

MAY 1935

"Harold Gatty Takes On The Pacific"

Harold Gatty instructs Air Corps Officer on his drift meter invention 1932 International Newsreel (NASM/Smithsonian).

JUNE 1935

Clip from a 1939 Illustration of Pan Am's completed Midway Base by Carol Nay, in "Timmy Rides the China Clipper," (Albert Whitman) p. 39.

JULY 1935

"The Reality of Building a Pan Am Base on Wake"

Photo appearing the Pan Am's 1935 Annual Report, showing plans for the construction of its Wake Island base.

AUGUST 1935

“The Sun Also Rises”

1935 Photos: (left) Wake Island construction (George Kuhn/PAHF); (right) East Greenland by Louise Boyd (Archives of the American Geographical Society, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) No. 336-01.    https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsny/id/65686/rec/9  

SEPTEMBER 1935

"Guam: Pan Am's Penultimate Link" 

Slipway in Sumay Cove and Refurished Pan Am Buildings at Guam, 1935. (R.O.D. Sullivan/PAHF Collection).

October 1935

"Fourth Survey Flight:

Across the World's Largest Ocean with the Longest Hops"

Crew of Pan American Clipper at Alameda, October 5, 1935 before its fourth transpacific survey flight (Pan American Airways, Sept-Oct 1935, PAHF collection and University of Miami Special Collections).