RomerOnline Exhibition of Aviation Photos of Early Miami - Pan American Airways
A large crowd is shown at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove to see the arrival of the China Clipper. This Martin 130 was delivered to Pan American on September 10, 1935 at a cost of $417,000. The China Clipper won fame for inaugurating trans-Pacific airline service in November, 1935 with a flight from San Francisco to Manila with stops in Honolulu, Midway, Wake, and Guam. This aircraft could carry 52 passengers and had a range of 3,200 statute miles. The China Clipper served most of its career in the Pacific with occasional service out of Miami. This particular aircraft sank on January 8, 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
