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17 unusual facts about Pan American World Airways


1939 Imperial Airways flying boat ditching

As soon as it was realised at Port Washington that Cavalier was going to land in the sea, Port Washington requested a Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-42 flying boat from Hamilton, Bermuda, to go to her assistance.

Accidents and incidents at John F. Kennedy International Airport

;8 February:Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a Douglas DC-7, crashed off Jones Beach after takeoff when the pilots found themselves on an apparent collision course with an inbound Pan Am Boeing 707 and made evasive maneuvers.

Bill Cowden

After his basketball career, Cowden worked for Pan Am and served as director of their Southeast Asia office.

Donald Allan Darling

In 1940 he became a meteorologist at Pan American Airways and from 1942 to 1946, during WWII, he headed the statistics department of the Air Force Weather Research Project.

Esther Bubley

In the mid-1960s, Pan American World Airways sent her around the world twice to make images for their corporate photographic library.

Harvey Hancock

After ten years of news, Hancock changed careers from journalism to the airline industry by taking a management position with United Airlines and Pan American World Airways.

Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero

The Commission’s efforts were realized on May 1, 1967, when a Pan American World Airways flight arrived on Guam with 109 tourists from neighboring Japan.

Mohamed Medbouh

While there, at the request of King Hassan II, he made inquiries into the reason why Pan American World Airways had decided against building an Intercontinental Hotel in Casablanca.

No. 216 Squadron RAF

In 1984 the RAF purchased a further three Tristar 500s from Pan-Am.

Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island

The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, also known as Building 3, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California, was an aircraft hangar constructed in 1938 for Pan American World Airways' trans-Pacific Clipper services, and then modified for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Pan Am Flight 115

Pan Am Flight 115, operated by Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-121 N712PA (Clipper Washington), was a commercial flight from Paris via London to New York City.

Panam

Pan American World Airways, the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927–1991

Robert Grant Irving

Upon his return to Yale in 1969, he discovered that Pan American World Airways had lost his research.

Smile

It is named after the airline Pan American World Airways which went out of business in 1991, whose flight attendants would always flash every jet-setter the same perfunctory smile.

Stephen Wolf

He joined Pan American World Airways as a senior vice president in 1981 and became president and chief operating officer of Continental Airlines in 1982.

Timothy Mellon

In 1981, GTI purchased the Maine Central Railroad from U.S. Filter Corporation, adding the Boston & Maine and Delaware & Hudson railroads in 1983 and 1984, respectively, and in 1998 purchased the brand of bankrupt Pan American World Airways.

Victoria Fyodorova

While in the United States, she met Frederick Pouy, a pilot for Pan American World Airways, and they married on June 7, 1975, in Stamford, Connecticut, days before her visa was to expire.


15 May Organization

The following year, the group unsuccessfully attempted to bomb a Pan Am flight in Rio de Janeiro, and then successfully detonated a bomb, killing only one passenger, aboard Pan Am Flight 830 on 11 August.

Consolidated Commodore

The Consolidated Commodore was a flying boat built by Consolidated Aircraft and used for passenger travel in the 1930s, mostly in the Caribbean operated by companies like Pan American Airways.

Dyna-Flytes

Among the airlines that had models released by Dyna-Flites included FedEx, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Pan Am, TWA and Braniff.

Ed Acker

Charles Edward Acker (Born April 7, 1929) is an American businessman who served as CEO of Braniff Airways, Air Florida, and Pan American World Airways.

John F. O'Ryan

In 1926 he became prominent in the development of commercial aviation as a partner in Pan American Airways, later becoming President of Colonial Airlines.

Pan Am Flight 526A

Pan American World Airways Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4, took off from San Juan-Isla Grande Airport, Puerto Rico, at 12:11 PM AST on April 11, 1952 on a flight to Idlewild International Airport, New York City with 64 passengers and five crew members on board.

Pan Am Flight 759

Pan Am Flight 759, operated by a Boeing 727-235, N4737 Clipper Defiance, was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

Robert Macauley

When he learned that it would take more than a week to evacuate the surviving orphans due to the lack of military transport planes, Macauley chartered a Boeing 747 from Pan American World Airways and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.

Teterboro Airport

The Port Authority of NY & NJ purchased it on April 1, 1949, from Fred L. Wehran, a private owner, and later leased it to Pan American World Airways (and its successor organization Johnson Controls) for 30 years until December 1, 2000, when the Port Authority assumed full responsibility for the operation of Teterboro.