Pan Am returns to its birthplace

Florida Keys News - Key West Citizen

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Pan Am returns to its birthplace

Iconic airline long gone, but memories live on

BY SANDRA FREDERICK Citizen Staff

In 1927, a Pan American World Airways plane took off from Key West on a maiden flight to deliver mail to Havana, Cuba.

Eighty-five years later, in celebration of the airline's elite history, a much different plane lifted off from Key West International Airport Saturday morning. But it didn't head south filled with mailbags, it turned west toward the Dry Tortugas with a few l...

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