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1-DEC-1930 Florida State Archives

1930 - the first flight of Pan American Airways System's Sikorsky S-40 NC-80V "American Clipper" at Dinner Key

Dinner Key, Miami, Florida


From the state archives description: "First flight of Pan American Airway's American Clipper, Miami, Florida"

The Sikorsky S-40 was the first aircraft to carry a "Clipper" name. It had 38 seats, flew at 115 mph, had a 34,000 lb. max gross takeoff weight, and a 900 mile range. The S-40 was slow so it was used for shorter flights to Mexico, the Bahamas and Havana, Cuba. Only 3 were built and all for Pan American. The registrations were: NC-80V, NC-81V, NC-752V.


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Mark Lincoln 25-Apr-2015 18:49
There was a S-40 hull in a Miami junkyard into the mid-1950s