Jan. 28th, 1939 Boeing Clipper is met by a Coast Guard cutter off Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon. Boeing clippers were transferred to Pan American Airways in Astoria to avoid Washington sales tax. Photo by Woodfield Photo Studio of Astoria. Pan-American’s third giant clipper airplane landed in the Columbia River off Tongue Point today at 10:03 a.m., after an hour and 23 minute flight down the Pacific coast from Seattle and left promptly at 11:20 a.m. for Pan-American’s clipper base on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, after transfer by Boeing Aircraft of Seattle to PAA was completed. The big clipper was reported over Bay Center on the Long Beach Peninsula eight minutes before she hit the water here. (By BOB DUKEWater Under the Bridge: For The Daily Astorian) Imagine 700 people watching her take off in Astoria: news.google/newspapers?nid=1970&dat=19390128&id=CxcvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n6MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1382,2198970 Heres a photo of her in San Francisco Bay: ebay/itm/1939-PAN-AMERICAN-BIG-CLIPPER-AIRPLANE-PHOTO-PEARL-HARBOR-WWII-SURVIVOR-AVIATION/361037807976?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140602152332%26meid%3Da4f08c8f5cff442987a14232b1887672%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D20140602152332%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D141509340127
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:23:15 +0000
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