Pan America Delivers

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21 May 1929

1929 – The first mail delivered by Pan American World Airways from Miami to Nicaragua left Biscayne Bay on this date. Pan Am, as it was more commonly known, began delivering U.S. international mail to Havana Cuba from Key West in 1927 and later Miami before securing mail delivery contracts for all of Central and South America. In the coming decades Pan Am became one of the largest commercial airmail and passenger airlines in the world with planes traveling to every continent but Antarctica by 1968. Miami remained a hub for Pan Am service until the early 1990s.

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Relevant Year: 

1929

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05

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21