Dixie Clipper Reunion Excerpts

Boeing B-314, Courtesy SFO Museum, gift of PAHF. A Mighty Design.

A Mighty Design. Boeing B-314, John T. McCoy watercolor, courtesy SFO Museum, gift of PAHF.

Boeing B-314 Close Up of Take Off. John T. McCoy watercolor, courtesy of SFO Museum, gift of PAHF.

Clipper Tradewind, a Boeing 707 at the Worldport, 1968.

South by West. Ed Musick in Aukland, New Zealand.

Fiorello LaGuardia at the Marine Air Terminal Opening in 1940.

Jupiter Rex Certificate issued to Pan Am passengers crossing the equator, on Pan Am Routes.

Boeing B-707, world's first successful commercial jet transport.

Boeing 747-SP was designed for extreme long-range flights.

New York Airways helicopter landing on the rooftop heliport, Pan Am Building New York City.

South by West: Pan Am Kingman Reef expedition leader Danilo Vucetich & colleagues.

Boeing B-314 Fleet at Marine Air Terminal

The Atlantic Division's B-314 Clipper Fleet, in 1940 in Bowery Bay, by the MAT.

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History articles from the Dixie Clipper Reunion booklet courtesy of Don Cooper. Learn about the historic Dixie Clipper in these excerpts from the souvenir reunion booklet, 2012.

Aboard the Dixie Clipper: Welcome Aboard

Conquering the Atlantic by Don Cooper

Pan American Intercontinental Hotels

Read Lou Berman's recap of the Dixie Clipper Reunion and see photos by Robert A. Genna. Thanks to Mary Lou Bigelow for sending us the link to an article in the Riviera Reporter about the wonderful reunion celebration in November 2012. For more history, read the LA Times story on the Dixie Clipper and Politico's retrospective on the first presidential flight taken on the Dixie Clipper by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Casablanca in January 1943.