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Pan American-Grace Airways. Pan American-Grace Airways, also known as Panagra, and dubbed "The World's Friendliest Airline" was an airline formed as a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and Grace Shipping Company. On September 13, 1928, a small single-engine Fairchild airliner flew from Lima, Peru, to Talara, Peru, which marked ...
The new company, Pan American Grace Airways, Inc., was jointly and equally owned by both Pan American World Airways, Inc., and W. R. Grace and Company, the largest shipping company in South America. As early as 1953, the Civil Aeronautics Board had recommended that Pan Am divest itself of Panagra, because of Pan Am's decades-long control of air travel in the region and between US and Latin ...
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Jul 4, 2023 · The company also hosts Douglas DC-2 courtesy flights at Lima, Peru, where the Maria Benavides, daughter of the Peruvian President Oscar R. Benavides, was taken on one of the special flights. The youngest to fly was 28-day old Ms. Elizabeth Garrison. Panagra also hosted courtesy flights at Arequipa, Peru
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Jun 10, 2022 · Panagra was formed by Pan Am & W.R Grace & Company by the merger of Peruvian Airways and Chilean Airlines on 13/Sep/1928 and commenced operations on 12/Oct/1929. The mail contract was awarded to the airline for the route between the Canal Zone and Argentina. It was the first US operator of Fairchild F2-2W in 1929.
Mar 11, 2003 · BY clipper471 - Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:41 pm. PANAGRA was the short name for Pan American-Grace Airways. On Jan-29-1930 Pan American Airways and W.R. Grace & Co. (a shipping company) formed PANAGRA, which was a South American airline. Pan American divested it's 50% interest in PANAGRA in 1966 for $15 million to Braniff.
Jul 5, 2023 · Mr. Cyrus S. Collins has been elected as assistant vice president of Panagra, according to Company President Andrew B. Shea. Mr. Collins joined Panagra in 1942, at Lima, Peru, in the Traffic and Operations Departments until 1948 and was then transferred to New York as assistant to the vice president and general manager of the Airline
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The Panagra name was resurrected during the late 1990s when a new airline which billed itself as Panagra Airways operating Boeing 727-200 jetliners. Panagra travel poster for service to Peru Pan American Grace Airways and Panagra's intellectual property is currently owned by Braniff Airways, Inc. , and is administered by Braniff Airways Foundation, in Dallas, Texas.
