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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 ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Panagra became the first commercial airline to begin using the latest type of airborne weather radar aboard one of its Douglas DC-6B four-engine airliners used in regularly scheduled operations. The first radar-equipped flight left today from Miami, enroute to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which enables its pilots to see weather 150 miles ahead of the aircraft
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Jul 4, 2023 · The flights were flown using Panagra Ford Trimotor registered as NC8416 Ship P-8, which had to fly over a 15,000-foot mountain range over the route. Cuzco, located in the Andes at an altitude of 11,500 feet, is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the Western Hemisphere.
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Arrangements were made for Braniff to buy W. R. Grace's half of Panagra for $11 million USD with negotiations to continue into early 1965, for the purchase or Pan Am's half of Panagra. A projected merger date was to have been late summer 1965 but Pan American's legendary Founder and President Juan Terry Trippe did not accept Braniff's offer.
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May 20, 2016 · Braniff went broke in 1982. Apparently someone thought it a good idea to start again, under Panagra name. So in 1996 operations were restarted from Fort Lauderdale, FL. using the Boeing 727. Panagra ceased operations (again) in 1999. Source Document. An interesting story but let me add in a few facts that will tell the rest of the story: 1.
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.
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Jan 25, 2014 · Panagra’s operations during its life can be best illustrated with timetables. As Panagra was a major part of Pan American’s operations in South America, some of Pan Am’s timetables are used. A 1939 timetable shows operations with a Pan American S-42 flying from Miami to Panama and then a Panagra DC-2 or DC-3 from Panama south to Buenos Aires.