Round-the-World Flights

First Eastward RTW Mail Flight via Northern TransAtlantic Air Service

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New York, NY	England	Hong Kong	New York BackStamp	Cachet

	A little more than a month after Pan Am's success in flying the "Southern Route" 
across the Atlantic Ocean, it inaugurated the transatlantic "Northern Route" on 
June 24, 1939.  Pan Am flew from New York by way of Shediac, New Brunswick Canada 
and then via Botwood, Newfoundland and Foynes, Ireland to Southampton, England (FAM-18).  
	Mail from the US to points beyond Southampton was dispatched by regular connecting 
air service via Imperial Airways from Europe to Hong Kong.  Pan Am then provided 
air service across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, CA (FAM-14) and US transcontinental 
domestic air service completed the round-the-world air routing of mail back to New York 
(TO-1324).
	Pan Am's "Yankee Clipper" (Boeing B-314 flying boat) piloted by Captain Arthur E. 
LaPorte made the US's first scheduled commercial transatlantic mail flight (Northern Route) 
and completed the first leg of round-the-world mail routing on scheduled flights.  
	 	
Itinerary:

New York, NY                    Pan American Airways        06/24/39
Southampton, England            Imperial Airways            06/28/39
Hong Kong                       Pan American Airways        07/07/39
Honolulu, HI                    Pan American Airways        07/25/39
San Francisco, CA               US Domestic Carrier         07/27/39 
New York, NY                                                07/28/39

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