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About Pan Am
<b>Pan Am - Pan American World Airways; photo wallpapers; megawallpapers.org :</b> Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991. Originally founded as a seaplane service out of Key West, Florida,
the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that
shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use
of jet aircraft, jumbo jets, and computerized reservation systems. Identified by its blue globe logo and the use of the word "Clipper" in aircraft names and call signs, the airline was a cultural icon of the 20th century, and the unofficial flag carrier of the United States. Pan Am went through two reincarnations after 1991. The second Pan Am
operated from 1996 to 1998 with a focus on low-cost, long-distance
flights between the U.S. and the Caribbean. The third incarnation based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ceased operations in 2004. (Boston-Maine Airways,
a sister company of the third incarnation, still operates the Pan Am
Clipper Connection brand.) Except for the second incarnation, whose IATA airline designator was PN, Pan Am still used the IATA code PA and the ICAO code PAA,
though neither incarnation had a relationship to the original Pan Am.
The third incarnation also had no relationship to the second
incarnation of the mid-1990s. During the mid-1970s,
there were two Pan Am flights operated around the world to set or break
previous around-the-world flying records. One was in May 1976, and the other in late October 1977 — the 50th birthday of Pan Am. <b>Liberty Bell Express:</b> This flight, using a Boeing 747SP-21 named Clipper Liberty Bell with registration number N533PA, broke the commercial plane around-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707, with the new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK ...