[Milsurplus] Pan Am radio equipment

David Ross ross at hypertools.com
Sun Mar 28 19:02:37 EDT 2010



Hue Miller wrote:
> There was a Clipper facility in the San Francisco Bay area, either Oakland 
> area or SF, where he had been.
> [ Alameda, most likely ]

  Pan Am Clippers flew out of Treasure Island / Yerba Buena Island, from 
"Port of Trade Winds" seaplane harbor.
> Pan American World Airways' Clipper in the seaplane harbor at Treasure 
> Island about 1940. The site of the 1939-1940 fairs was to become San 
> Francisco International Airport in 1941. However, the Navy seized the 
> island in 1942, shortly after World War II began, and it became 
> Treasure Island Naval Station .
Photos & text here:
<http://www.sfmuseum.org/photos2/clipper.html>

Dave Ross    N7EPI



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