A GUIDE TO CLIPPER HALL EXHIBITS
Delve into Pan Am's sweeping history at Clipper Hall, our searchable collection of graphics-rich exhibits & films.
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"Clipper Hall" is inspired by long-time Pan Am Historian Althea (Gerry) Lister, director of Pan Am's displays at the original Clipper Hall museum in Long Island City that later moved to JFK International Airport.
EXHIBITS AT CLIPPER HALL
2024
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ATLANTIC CROSSINGS
Historic transatlantic aviation attempts & Juan Trippe's vision ultimately led to Pan American Airways surveys to Europe and Africa. The exhibit includes the operations of Pan Am and the flying boats that made Atlantic crossings possible from the 1930s through WW2. It touches on Pan Am's efforts for the Allies during the war: Pan Am Africa, Pan American Ferries, the Airport Development Program, and Special Missions. The exhibit highlights Pan Am’s postwar triumph about advanced piston aircraft and jets that shrank the world. It also features ads that publicized Pan Am’s transatlantic destinations through the decades.
Ocean Challenge A Vision Achieved War Clouds US at War Atlantic Triumph
Transatlantic Ads Acknowledgements  Three historic films digitally preserved by Pan Am Historical Foundation as well as a production commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the China Clipper’s inaugural trip across the Pacific Ocean.
Gateway to the Southern Americas (circa 1938) Pacific Passage (2010) Transpacific (1939) The Pan Am Story (1977) Acknowledgements |
2023
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Fall 2023 FilmFest (12/23)
Three Pan American World Airways productions, presented at the San Francisco Aeronautical Society Gala, November 2023, honoring PAHF Chairman Ed Trippe. And a new film in honor of Pan Am Flight Radio Officer Ed Dover's 100th birthday, "Staying Connected.,” is based on personal interviews conducted by Pan Am Historical Foundation with Ed, about his career and life in aviation. Two Hours to Havana (1929) Summer 2023 (07/23)
New perspectives on Pan Am's storied past with immersive exhibits on the history and impact of Pan American World Airways. Nothing represents the shift from rail to air as the dominant means of mass transportation as the story of the Pan Am Building's evolution and construction over Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. The exhibit also takes a look at the 1930s when something different was needed to conquer the oceans by air. The answer was the Boeing B-314 "Super Clipper." "Advertising Pan Am" features a chronological look at promotional material for travel to Latin America. "Pan Am 1932" looks at the company's fifth year of operations. "Archival Insights" covers the 1936 production of "The China Clipper" movie. Visitors can also watch the film, "Europe by Air," in the "Pan Am Theater." The Pan Am Building:
-Air Rights -The Design
-The Construction -A Reality at Last
SuperClipper
Advertising Pan Am
Pan Am 1932
Archival Insights
Pan Am Theater
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