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Don Boyd | all galleries >> Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries - largest non-Facebook collection on the internet >> Miami and Florida AVIATION Historical Photos Gallery - Airports, Airlines, Aircraft - All Years - click on image to view >> Historical Pan American Airways System and Pan American World Airways Photo Gallery - click on image to enter > 1938 - Pan American Airways System Fairchild 71 and downtown Miami
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1938 Florida State Archives

1938 - Pan American Airways System Fairchild 71 and downtown Miami

Miami, Florida


The state archives says this is at Dinner Key but the downtown angle is wrong so I suspect it is on Watson Island. Thank you to Mark Lincoln for identifying the aircraft type.


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Mark Lincoln 28-Apr-2015 18:35
You are right. This photo could not have been taken at Dinner Key. The airplane is a Fairchild 71. Pan Am operated 3 of them between 1930 and 1940. The Fairchild 71s (and the similar Fairchild FC-2 5 of which were operated by Panagra) were operated in Central and South America. The Fairchild 71 (and FC-2) could be operated on wheels or floats, but were not "amphibious." Looks like the Florida State Archives has it wrong again.