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A comprehensive selection of modelling tools and paints (in all the colours you will need to complete your Douglas DC-3) is available from the Model Space website. www.model-space.com ™ Boeing Corporate Identity Program Revision: July 26, 2004 www.model-space.com Pan American – The company and the DC-3 Pan American The company and the DC-3 The cover of the first Pan American Airways schedule, from January 1928. The company served the Key West to Havana route at a cost of $50 each way. The planes used were three- mong the many airlines that of interests and skills. The Aviation engine Fokker F-7As, A adopted the DC-3 for their fleets Corporation of the Americas (ACA) as shown in the picture. Between January 1928 over the years, Pan Am remains one of had been founded by 28-year-old Yale and May 1929, the network of destinations served by the most distinguished. graduate Juan Trippe in June 1927, the company extended to On 14 March 1927, three Air Corps with the backing of Cornelius Vanderbilt Nassau, Port au Prince, Santiago and San Juan. For majors – Henry Arnold, Carl Spaatz and Whitney and the future ambassador and each of these destinations, Pan Am received a John H. Jouett – founded Pan American Secretary of State for Trade, William A. contribution of two dollars Airlines. They wanted to create a rival Harriman. The Atlantic Gulf & Caribbean per mile from the US government for carrying mail to SCADTA, the Colombian-German Airways company (AGCA) was created for the postal service. air transport company that had been by New York investment banker Richard operating in South and Central America Hoyt in October 1927. since 1920. On 23rd June 1928, the ACA, AGCA After little more than a year, Pan and Pan Am merged. Hoyt became the American had merged with two other president of the ‘New Aviation Corporation companies to secure connections of the Americas’, and Pan American between South America and the United Airways was an operating subsidiary, with States, creating a powerful union Juan Trippe as its operational head. Build Douglas DC-3 275 In 1933, during the period A new network covered by this map, Pan Am and its subsidiaries already served a wide range With the merger of the three companies, of destinations in Central and South America. The the focus of Pan American Airways turned agreement of 1929 with the United Aircraft and Transport to South America, where its network of Corporation had allowed the destinations expanded rapidly, especially company, thanks to solid support at a political level, to following the acquisition of contracts for concentrate exclusively on international routes. the transporting of mail, and the take- overs of numerous small local companies that were often in financial difficulty. During 1929, Pan Am opened links with Colombia and Venezuela and, by the end With the Sikorsky S-40 (above), Pan Am introduced the name ‘Clipper’ for its prestige planes. In line with the company’s image, the name suggested the fast sailing ships that plied ocean routes in the 19th century. The choice of name was a success – ‘Clipper’ subsequently became the company’s call sign and ‘Clipper Club’ was adopted as the name of the VIP rooms available at major airports served by Pan Am. 276 Build Douglas DC-3 Pan American – The company and the DC-3 This colourful poster of the year, with Peru; the following year it shows the huge range of extended its services to Argentina (Buenos destinations covered by Pan Am and the scope of leisure Aires), Chile and Brazil, in that case aviation in the interwar years. It also promotes the speed through its subsidiary Panair do Brasil. of the service compared to During this period, the transcontinental rail travel. ‘We’ve had boat trains’, the poster declares, routes were served by Sikorsky S-38 ‘now here’s the plane train’. Pan Am was seen as the and S-40 seaplanes. The latter – the fastest and most convenient flagships of the fleet – were named way to escape the harsh North American winter and American, Southern and Caribbean reach a cornucopia of exotic, Clippers: the name ‘Clipper’, synonymous sunny destinations. The Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper (registration number NC14714, shown here), entered service in 1936, but disappeared at sea on 28 July 1938, while flying between Guam and Manila, with the loss of six passengers and nine crew members. with speed and elegance, was taken up Company (a division of the chemical giant Between 1938 and 1945, three of Pan Am’s as the call sign of the company and given W.R. Grace & Co.) to form Pan American- M-130s were lost due to serious accidents. Besides the Hawaii Clipper, the Philippine Clipper (NC14715) to several seaplanes that served between Grace Airways (Panagra), a joint venture crashed in the mountains of Northern California on 21 January 1943 with the loss of 19 people, and 1931 and 1946. that continued to operate along the routes 23 people died when the China Clipper (NC14716) 1929 was a defining year for Pan Am. of South America until its acquisition by sank on landing near Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago), on 8 January 1945. It joined forces with the Grace Shipping Braniff International in 1967. Build Douglas DC-3 277 Pan Am Staff including dead reckoning and exploiting marine currents. The pilots’ abilities were particularly put to the test on Pan Am’s longer routes and the potentially dangerous intercontinental flights. The selection of cabin crew was equally rigid. The minimum age of a Pan Am air hostess was 21, the maximum was 32. The candidates were selected for their ‘good looks and poise’ and – until the 1970s – had to be unmarried with no children, and not divorced. The standard of beauty imposed on them and the level of service demanded on board contributed – especially in the 1950s and 60s – to establishing the reputation of the approachable but supremely professional An important aspect of the Pan Pan Am stewardess. Am experience was its service on ne of the elements that came to define knowledge of the aircraft itself, to know The company’s reputation was further the ground. As this advert boasts, strengthened by sightings of celebrities on ‘foreign soil’ – at destinations Othe public’s image of Pan Am was its the principles of long-distance flight, served by the airline – you were loyal, glamorous and talented staff. More aviation and maritime regulations, among the passengers, and Pan Am took met by an English-speaking Pan than with other airlines, Pan Am’s pilots docking and mooring operations, radio pride in the fact that they were the airline Am representative who ensured and stewardesses were identified with the communications and maintenance of of choice for politicians and movie stars. that passengers felt ‘at home abroad.’ The advert shows the airline and its guarantee of quality, so the the aircraft. They had to know what to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was one slogan ‘The System of the Flying selection process was rigorous. do if they were required to ditch the of the first, travelling to the Casablanca Clippers’, and the logo, with the In the 1930s and 1940s, Pan Am pilots aircraft, how to land in adverse weather Conference in 1943 on a Pan Am-crewed initials PAA on the wing and the were required, in addition to a technical conditions, and navigation techniques, Boeing 314, the Dixie Clipper. globe rotated to show the Atlantic, dates the image to between the mid-1940s and early 1950s. 278 Build Douglas DC-3 Pan American – The company and the DC-3 Boeing B-314 ‘Clipper’ welve Boeing B-314 planes Twere bought by Pan Am between 1938 and 1941 to add to its Clipper family. Each plane could carry 74 passengers by day and 36 as a sleeper, in addition to the 11 crew members (of which two were cabin attendants).