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Pan Am's Samoan Clipper in Auckland
American Airways Sikorsky flying boat 'Samoan Clipper' (foreground), and Imperial Airways flying boat 'Centaurus', moored off the Pan-American Airways wharf, at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, between 24 December, 1937 and 1 January, 1938.
On 2 January the Samoan Clipper departed on the first official airmail flight to San Francisco. Disaster struck on the return trip when the plane exploded in midair with no survivors.
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference: 1/4-048844-G
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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