Miami Hangar largePhoto: Courtesy of Miami Dade Public Library System, Gleason Romer Collection.

Pan Am's 1929 Hangar Five History

A video history around the beginnings of international aviation in Miami

The very last vestige of Miami's original international airport is a Pan American Field hangar that still sits where it was originally built in early 1929. Now a subject of interest and debate in Miami, the hangar is in the spotlight as Dade County considers its fate.

 

Archival Sources:

APM Music

Archive.org

Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum

Miami Dade Public Library System

The U.S. National Archives

The Pan Am Historical Foundation

Tomas Romero

University of South Carolina