Passengers deplaning in Havana, 1928. Pan Am began mail service from Key West to Havana in October of 1927. Soon after they were offering passenger service as well.

Pan Am was the first American airline to offer permanent international service.

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Colonel Charles Lindbergh aboard a Fokker F-VII. The aviation hero--the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic--was hired by Pan Am President Juan Trippe as a technical advisor and surveyor.

In 1929 he flew the first regular airmail service from Miami to the Panama Canal Zone.

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This group of travel agents was the first to receive a courtesy flight from Pan Am.

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Miss Alaska and friends in front of two Lockheed Electras. Pan Am and its subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways, began the first regular scheduled service between Juneau and Fairbanks in 1935.

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Pan Am's Yankee Clipper in the Azores, 1939. This was the first scheduled trans-atlantic mail service.

Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Pan American Historical Foundation Collection.

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