Flying Boat Display

During the 1930s, the commercial amphibious “flying boats” offered passengers a luxurious way to travel. Pan American offered a regularly scheduled weekly transatlantic passenger and airmail service flight across the Atlantic. Among the items in this display are two envelopes that Capt. Edwin C. Musick mailed to himself as mementos of the first transpacific flight of Pan America’s China Clipper in 1935. Members of his crew autographed the envelopes, including Fred J. Noonan who served as Amelia Earhart’s navigator in her attempted around-the-world flight in 1937, in which she disappeared without a trace.