Pan Am Airways Transportation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a great old brass belt buckle for Pan Am Airways showing the company's winged globe logo. Some of the airways' destinations are listed: WEST INDIES MEXICO CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA ALASKA HAWAII PHILIPPINES CHINA. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a great vinyl flight bag from Pan American's Hawaii Holiday Clipper. The bag is in blue and white vinyl with a drawstring closure and shows the PAA winged globe logo on one side and a clipper airplane on the other. The Clipper was a hip...

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare and extremely cool circa early to mid-1960s cigarette lighter factory-engraved for Pan Am Saigon. During the Vietnam War, Pan Am airlifted cargo for the military as well as flew many GIs to various spots in Asia for their...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1943 Gruen "VeriThin" wristwatch made for members of Pan American's flight crew. The watch is in stainless steel with a black leather band. VINTAGE: Circa 1943. SIZE: Size 18L: approximately 1-3/8" in width and 9-3/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) passport, card, permit to enter China and leather passport wallet of Supply Chief G.W. (George Wilson) Van Cleve. CNAC was an airline co-owned equally by Pan Am Airlines and...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1947 Pan Am Airways certificate signed by aviation pioneer Gilbert "Gib" Bynum Blackmore. Blackmore, piloting with Pan Am for three decades, flew the Dixie Clipper carrying the first-ever passengers in a transatlantic flight in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1939 vintage Pan American Airways travel poster by P. G. Lawler for Ecuador. The poster shows a PAA plane flying over a fabulous scene of some natives hiking against a backdrop of the Andes. VINTAGE: Circa 1939...

ARTIFACT: This is an early World War II Pan Am "PAA Ferries Inc" hat badge. VINTAGE: Circa 1942. SIZE: About 1-1/2" in width by 1-5/16" in length. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-plated brass. ATTACHMENT: Single screw post. MARKINGS: None. ITEM...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare CNAC (Chinese National Aviation Corporation) flight engineer shirt-size wing from the World War II era. This extremely rare wing looks nearly identical to the pilot's at first glance, but has one tiny, yet very...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically important circa 1931 Sikorsky Manufacturing Company lapel wing, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan piloted a 1931 inaugural foreign air mail...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified aviation association lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan joined the United States Navy in 1918, functioning as a flight...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically significant National Aeronautic Association of the United States (NAA) five years of membership lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan...