ENDURING LEGACY
PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE
The story of the lost Samoan Clipper and plans leading up to the July 2019 expedition launched by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.
Meeting Charles Lindbergh, a first-person account excerpted from Ed Spellacy's series on his career with Pan Am, entitled "PanAmusings."
An Author's Experience: A first-person account by Bob Daley, author of "An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire."
Gerry Lister was the curator of the Clipper Museum in Long Island City, becoming Pan Am’s official historian, an inspirational role then, and now.
Communing with Ghosts: Peter Leslie's 2015 visit & photos at Foynes Museum's B-314 Yankee Clipper Pan Am replica (Margaret Shaunessey at controls).
Until retirement in 2020, former Pan Am B-707-321B Clipper Seven Seas N404PA was a flying electronics lab for MIT's Lincoln Laboratory.
Revisiting Pan Am's Cuban Roots, by Ed Trippe. The rich history behind the beginnings of Pan American Airways in Cuba.
Billboards in the grand Portuguese tradition of Azulejos, hand painted, glazed ceramic tile ads are colorful reminders of Pan Am in Portugal.
Mystery Still With Us: the disappearance of Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper on July 29th, 1938, and an ongoing search by the The Lost Clipper.
"There Will Never Be Another Pan Am" by Aviation Historian R.E.G. Davies. Today, Pan Am is still respected in the world of commercial aviation.
Historic Pan Am Insignias. An array of beautiful Pan Am Insignias through the years from the Jon Krupnick Pan Am Collection.
Pan Am Historical Foundation installed a new B-314 Clipper model and three historical markers at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in 2021.
R.E.G. Davies' life's work as world's foremost airline historian and curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian, by Dr. Robert Van der Linden.
Updates on the Gene Banning Collection, donated to PAHF, highlight its digitization for broader sharing through the new Clipper Hall exhibits.
A Legend: Edmund “Eddie” Allen, Test Pilot. His calm intelligence heard in a radio interview during his first Boeing 314 Clipper test.
Assistant to JTT, Kathleen Clair, tells her story excerpted from "Pan American World Airways Aviation History through the Words of Its People."
Juan Terry Trippe, King of the Skyways: Retrospective on Trippe’s career and impact on twentieth-century travel, written by Collie Small, 1953 .
