"#OnThisDay Pan American World Airways acquired American Overseas Airlines (A.O.A.) from American Airlines in 1950. American Overseas Airlines started as American Export Airlines in 1937, and was purchased by American Airlines in 1945. A.O.A. was awarded routes to England, Iceland, Ireland, and other destinations in Europe. Once acquired, PAA obtained all of A.O.A. routes and assets including eight Boeing 377 Stratocruisers, seven Constellations, three DC-4s, and one DC-3. Image: American Overseas Airlines (AOA) poster, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, late 1940s. SFO Museum Collection. 1996.48.01" This was posted to our Instagram account on September 25, 2017 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729359065/

1941 Pan American Airways System Timetable Cover
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Pan American “Yankee Clipper” at LaGuardia Field Postcard.
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"Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation. By 1930, the airline linked twenty-nine Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories with regularly scheduled airmail, passenger, and cargo flights. Pan Am’s public relations and advertising manager Daniel Rochford (1900–89) traveled extensively throughout Central America in the winter of 1930–31 and helped document Pan America’s operations from Cristóbal in the Panama Canal Zone to Guatemala, photographing PAA’s service in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. See Daniel Rochford’s photographs in “Pan American Airways in Central America,” online at: http://bit.ly/PAAinCA" This was posted to our Instagram account on May 01, 2020 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729355315/

1935 Pan Am Miami Airport Postcard
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1940 Pan Am Miami Airport Postcard
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