This week Fan American writes its newest chapter in
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way! Pan American-owned Pacific !
Alaska Airways started the first sched- f
uled flights from Fairbanks to Nome |
and towns in the interior with these j
single-engined Fairchild planes, the
finest equipment of their day in Alaska!
T O /t /7~ Four-engine DC-4's — largest aircraft
JijS jT 4 in the Territory —go into operation on
Pan American’s routes throughout Alaska, providing
regular scheduled service between Nome, Fairbanks,
Whitehorse, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
f 4 \ /t 4~i~-d dream come true! For the first time Alaska
J- jt\J is linked with the Outside by a regular sched
uled air service. Here you see one of Pan American’s
famed Flying Boats that regularly flew passengers between
Juneau. Ketchikan and Seattle.
Pan American puts Alaska’s newest, finest, fastest
airliners into service — pressurized Super-6 Clippers*! 22 years
of Pan American pioneering and developing the
Alaska skyways are behind this latest advance. Milestones
along the way show liow Pan American has constantly
improved and increased air service in Alaska.
TO Q E^—Pan American extended regular
JL tJ scheduled passenger service in
id Alaska from Fairbanks to Juneau. These twin
engine Lockheed Electras provided new advances
HH in speed and service.
And now Pan American brings you giant pressurized
Super-6 Clippers! The fastest, finest airliners
in Alaska today, Super-6 Clippers *peed
along at 300 miles per hoar, cut flight
times up to 25%! You fly at sea-level comfort
more than 3 miles up—high
||v above the weather.
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f\ Q /Z— Fairchild “Pilgrim” aircraft, especially equipped by
JL Zr t) U Pan American for Arctic operation, flew the mail over
the primitive route conditions in the interior... brought Alaskans
and Alaska business closer to the Outside.
16 MILLION MILES AND 84 YEARS \ *
OF ALASKA FLYING EXPERIENCE!
That’s the combined experience of six
Pan American Alaska Captains! These
men, many of whom were bush pilots,
flew Pan American’s old “Pilgrim'’
planes back in 1940. Now they join with
other veteran Alaska Captains to bring ,
their vast experience to Pan American’s
new Super-6 Clipper service.
*Trad3-Mark, Pan American World Airways, Inc,
PIONEER AND LEADER IN ALASKAN AVIATION