Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Thomas G. Plaskett (CEO, 1988–1991) Russell L. Ray Jr. (CEO, 1991) Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways[2] and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
Pan American Airways, also known as Pan Am II, was an airline created in 1996 by an investment group that included former US ambassador Charles Cobb.The group purchased the rights to the venerable Pan Am brand after the original carrier declared bankruptcy in 1991.
The Pan Am brand was sold by the second incarnation of Pan American World Airways to New Hampshire-based Guilford Transportation Industries, a railroad company headed by Timothy Mellon. After this transaction, a new airline was established on June 29, 1998. Guilford launched Pan American Airways with a fleet of seven Boeing 727-200s.
April 6, 1944. Pilgrim 100B NC742N crashed 10 miles east of Nome, Alaska due to pilot error, killing all six on board. August 8, 1944. Flight 218, operated by Sikorsky S-42 (NC823M) Hong Kong Clipper, lost control and crashed on takeoff from Antilla Airport, Cuba, killing 17 of 31 on board. [9] January 8, 1945.
Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. [2] Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, [3][4][5][6] the series features the aircraft pilots and stewardesses of the fictional Pan Am Clipper Majestic, operating in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial Jet Age.
The hoax alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 54 passengers and 10 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2, 1955. After 30 years (37 in some sources), the plane was sighted again near Caracas, and then after landing at the airport there, the plane immediately took off again and finally landed at its original destination in Miami.
Worldport (Pan Am) Category: Defunct airlines of the United States. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after airline companies of the United States.
Known for. Surveying trans-Pacific commercial air route. Signature. Edwin Charles Musick (August 13, 1894 – January 11, 1938) was chief pilot for Pan American World Airways and pioneered many of Pan Am's transoceanic routes including the famous route across the Pacific Ocean, ultimately reaching the Philippine Islands, on the China Clipper.