"#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/

"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/

"#Onthisday in 1939, Pan American Airways established the first regular air mail service across the Atlantic. Passenger service followed a month later. The route included service from Port Washington, New York, to Marseilles, France, via the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal. The trip took around 36 hours of flying time for a complete total of 51 total hours with layovers. A round-trip ticket cost $675, equivalent to over $11,000 today. Image: Pan American Airways, Boeing 314 “Dixie Clipper”, 1939. Gift of the Pan Am Association. 2000.058.0511.002" This was posted to our Instagram account on May 20, 2019 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729356541/

We are continuing our weekly series of posts highlighting #Palestinian fundraisers. This week, we are highlighting the Al-Nadi family. To find out more information and to donate, follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/PAA-Ahmed
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"#Onthisday in 1929, Charles Lindbergh piloted a Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, named "Mexico" and painted with C.M.A. and Pan American Airways markings, on the first southbound airmail service from Brownsville Municipal Airport in Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico City, via Tampico. Located at the southernmost point of Texas, near the Mexico–United States border, the Brownsville Municipal Airport served as Pan American Airways’ Western Division base for destinations to Mexico by its Mexican subsidiary Compañía Mexicana de Aviación or C.M.A. Charles Lindbergh completed this inaugural flight only two days after the Brownsville Airport opened. Image: Brownsville Municipal Airport, Brownsville, Texas, c. 1929. Gift of Jon E. Krupnick. 2010.281.006.025 - A large crowd welcomes Charles Lindbergh at Brownsville Municipal Airport before his inaugural airmail flight to Mexico City, 1929. Gift of Jon E. Krupnick. 2010.281.006.008 " This was posted to our Instagram account on March 10, 2019 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729356843/

We are beginning a weekly series of posts highlighting #Palestinian fundraisers. This week we are highlighting the Suhad family. To find out more and donate, follow this link:
https://tinyurl.com/suhad1
#Palestine #Gaza #PunksAgainstApartheid #PAA #MutualAid