Registration / Serial: | NC18602 |
Fleet number: | 18 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Boeing 314 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Boeing 314 |
Aircraft Version: | Boeing 314 |
C/n (msn): | 1989 |
Operator Titles: | Pan American Airways System - PAA |
City / Airport: | San Francisco - Treasure Island (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 13 January 1939 to 31 January 1939 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 427770Submit Correction |
View count: | 1898 |
Overflying Pan Am's new seaplane terminal on Treasure Island. All buildings of the Golden Gate International Exposition were razed down in 1940 to make room for a new land airport, but it became a naval facility instead. This is the second Boeing 314 airframe, the first to fly with triple tailfins. Named California Clipper, it was approaching Auckland in New Zealand on a regular transoceanic flight on 7 December 1941 when news came in of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor. Captain Robert Ford was ordered to proceed westward to New York and managed to complete an amazing 50,000 km trip via Australia, Java, Ceylon, Karachi, Bahrain, Sudan, Congo and Brazil. Photo from: SFO Museum
Registration / Serial: | NC18602 |
Aircraft Version: | Boeing 314 |
C/n (msn): | 1989 |
Operator Titles: | Pan American Airways System - PAA |
City / Airport: | San Francisco - Treasure Island (closed)Map | Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 13 January 1939 to 31 January 1939 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Registration / Serial: | NC18602 |
Fleet number: | 18 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Boeing 314 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Boeing 314 |
Aircraft Version: | Boeing 314 |
C/n (msn): | 1989 |
Operator Titles: | Pan American Airways System - PAA |
City / Airport: | San Francisco - Treasure Island (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 13 January 1939 to 31 January 1939 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 427770Submit Correction |
View count: | 1898 |
Overflying Pan Am's new seaplane terminal on Treasure Island. All buildings of the Golden Gate International Exposition were razed down in 1940 to make room for a new land airport, but it became a naval facility instead. This is the second Boeing 314 airframe, the first to fly with triple tailfins. Named California Clipper, it was approaching Auckland in New Zealand on a regular transoceanic flight on 7 December 1941 when news came in of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor. Captain Robert Ford was ordered to proceed westward to New York and managed to complete an amazing 50,000 km trip via Australia, Java, Ceylon, Karachi, Bahrain, Sudan, Congo and Brazil. Photo from: SFO Museum
Registration / Serial: | NC18602 |
Aircraft Version: | Boeing 314 |
C/n (msn): | 1989 |
Operator Titles: | Pan American Airways System - PAA |
City / Airport: | San Francisco - Treasure Island (closed)Map | Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 13 January 1939 to 31 January 1939 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |