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Documentary (2022)
French title: Pan Am - Essor et chute d’une compagnie mythique
Starring:
Ed Trippe (Juan Trippe's son)
Edeltraut Miller (Former hostess of Pan Am)
Linda Freire (Former hostess of Pan Am)
Thor Johnson (Former Pan Am's CEO)
Robert Daley (Juan Trippe's biograph)
Bob Van Der Linder (Historian)
The tragic fate of Pan American World Airways, a legendary American company that burned its wings by flying too high.
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny
Juan Terry Trippe, future Pan American Airways founder, at Yale University in the early 20s.
Unidentified Aircraft
Could it be a Curtiss CR?
Fairchild FC-2
Registration 1654 (later NC1654), c/n 15. This was the hastily borrowed Fairchild FC-2 of West Indian Aerial Express with which Pan American Airways flew its first service on 19 October 1927 to compete for the Key West to Havana air mail route in competition with Florida Airways. The aircraft was destroyed in July 1929.
Both West Indian and Florida Airways were soon acquired by Pan American Airways which went on to become a household name in aviation circles in Latin and South America.
Unidentified Aircraft
Not exactly matching with Fokker F.VII or Fokker F.10.
Unidentified Aircraft
Juan Trippe's personal aircraft.
Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Loening C-2 Air Yacht
First flight in 1928. 36 aircraft built.
Fokker F.VIIb/3m
Ford 5-AT Trimotor
Ford 5-AT Trimotor
J.T.Frippe and C.Lindberg in front of one of the 11 Ford Trimotors operated by PAA System.
Ford 4-AT-E Trimotor
Registration NC8407, c/n 69 built in 1929. Currently owned by The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) based at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. Painted with Eastern Air Transport livery.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland I & Junkers G 31
Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland I
Registration D-1297, c/n 37. Delivered in 1928. Sold to Iberia as M-CAEE.
Dornier Do J II f Bos
Registration D-AKER, c/n 237, previously D-2399. Delivered to Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1934. Operated South-Atlantic fight between Gambia and Brasil with need of refueling in the middle of the ocean. A vessel was equipped with a "towed sail" onto which the aircraft taxied. From there it was winched aboard by a crane, refueled, and then launched by catapult back into the air.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Sikorsky S-38
Sikorsky S-38B
State-owned enterprise CNAC shared 45% with PAA-Pan American Airways System. 2 Sikorsky S-38B from PAA's fleet (NC16V, NC17V) were operated under the colour of CNAC few month before their crash in November 1933 and April 1934.
This aircraft is one of them. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Sikorsky S-40
Inauguration of American Clipper by first lady Lou Henry Hoover in October 12, 1931 at the Naval Support Facility Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
Registration NC80V, c/n 2000. Operated by Pan American Airways until April 1942. Damaged beyond repair in April 1943
Sikorsky S-40
Sikorsky S-42
Sikorsky S-42A
Foreground: Registration NC15376, c/n 4206. Delivered to Pan American Airways in 1936. Sank at San Juan in October 1941.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Sikorsky S-42B
Registration NC16734, c/n 4207. Delivered to Pan American Airways in 1936, named Pan American Clipper II. Renamed Samoan Clipper in 1938. Destroyed at Pago Pago, Samoa in January 1938.
Martin M-130
Only 3 built. First flight in December 1934. Introduction on scheduled commercial service in November 1935.
Martin M-130
Registration NC14716, c/n 558. Inaugurated the first scheduled trans-Pacific commercial flight on 22 November 1935. Crashed on approach at Port of Spain, Trindad & Tobago in January 1945.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Martin M-130
Registration NC14715, c/n 557. First flight in 1934. Crashed into a mountain near Ukiah (North San Francisco) in January 1943.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
At Wake Island, Pacific Ocean.
Boeing 314 Clipper
Registration NC18601, c/n 1988. Built in 1939. Landed in the Pacific Ocean after the loss of 2 of the 4 engines in flight in November 1945. The plane was damaged during the Navy's attempted tow and salvage. The aircraft was then sunk by US Navy gunfire.
Interior description of a 'Flying Boat'.
Boeing 314 Clipper
Registration NC18603, c/n 1990. First flight in 1939. Named Yankee Clipper. Inaugurated the first trans-Atlantic flight on 20th May 1939, Port-Washington, New-York, Horta, Lisbon, Marseilles. Crashed while attempting to land at Lisboa-Cabo Ruivo Seaplane Base in February 1943.
Boeing 314 Clipper
Registration NC18602, c/n 1989. First flight in 1939. Named California Clipper. Flew from Auckland to New York in 1941–1942. Renamed Pacific Clipper. Sold to World Airways after World War II and was scrapped in 1950.
Boeing 314 Clipper
Several indeterminate views.
Dangerous situation.
At LaGuardia Airport - Maritime Air Terminal .
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
Pearl Harbour attack. Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress
Pearl Harbour attack. S/N 40-2074. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing B-314
Five Boeing 314 Clipper were pressed into military service with the U.S. Navy, transfered as Boeing B-314 .
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Untitled.
Model on J.T.Trippe's office.
Douglas DC-3B
After WWII, Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) took toward the promotion of competition between major US carriers on key domestic and international scheduled routes compared with pre-war US aviation policy. TWA-Transcontinental & Western Air, soon rebranded Category:Trans World Airlines|Trans World Airline]] began operation routes to Europe.
Douglas DC-3 Super B-Liner
With colours of Braniff International Airways, another competitor of PAA, on South American lines after war.
Douglas DC-6
In the background, 2 Douglas DC-3 of American Airlines and another unidentified airline Douglas DC-6 in the far.
Douglas DC-4
Untitled.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster
American Overseas Airlines launched international landplane flights on October 24, 1945, operating a Douglas C-54 Skymaster on the route New York City to London via Boston, Gander (Newfoundland) and Shannon (Ireland).
Seen from New-York Idlewild Airport Airport (JFK nowadays) traffic control tower.
Douglas DC-6B
Registration N6533C, c/n 43533/264. Delivered new to PAA in September 1952. Registered N6533C, named Clipper Flying Arrow. Sold to FAP Força Aérea Portuguesa in April 1961, registered 6707. Wfu in July 1978.
Advertising.
Boeing 707-321
Boeing 707-321B
Boeing 707-300 & Boeing 747-121
At Aéroport de Paris-Orly in the early 70s.
Boeing 707-321B
Registration N415PA, c/n 18957/472. First flight in July 1966. Delivered new to Pan American World Airways the same month, registered N415PA named Clipper Monsoon. Sold to LAPSA in November 1978, registered ZP-CCF. Bought by Fuerza Aerea Paraguaya in June 1994, VIP conversion as presidential transport but not used, registered FAP-01. On display at Museo de la historia de Lineas Aéreas Paraguayas-Hotel Del Rancho. Registered 4001.
Boeing 747-121
Boeing 747-121
Registration N742PA, c/n 19649/18. First flight in February 1970. Delivered to Pan Am in March 1970, registered N742PA named Clipper Rainbow. Renamed Clipper Neptune's Car in January 1992.
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See also
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Boeing 314
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 747
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Consolidated PBY Catalina
- Curtiss JN
- Dornier Do J Wal
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-6
- Ford Trimotor
- Martin M-130
- Ryan NYP
- Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland
- Sikorsky S-38
- Sikorsky S-40
- Sikorsky S-42
- Braniff International Airways
- China National Aviation Corporation
- Deutsche Luft Hansa
- Eastern Air Lines
- Pan American Airways System
- Pan American World Airways
- Transcontinental & Western Air