Wings Over West Indies
Documentary (1933)
Prouction:
Philip M.Brown (Director)
Central Films (Production)
This charming 1930s travelogue shows a trip through the Caribbean aboard a Pan Am flying boat Sikorsky S-40. The film starts in Havana, shows Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and Trinidad.
Havana (Cuba) to Kingston (Jamaica)
Sikorsky S-40
Registration NC752V, c/n 2002. Delivered new to PAA-Pan American Airways System in August 1932. Named Southern Clipper. Damaged on July 9, 1943 in Navy service while being beached.
Landing at Kingston Harbour.
Kingston (Jamaica) to Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
Sikorsky S-40
Unknown registration among 3x aircraft built.
Port-au-Prince (Haiti) to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Sikorsky S-40
NC752V seen again.
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) to San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Sikorsky S-40
Unknown registration among 3x aircraft built.
Unidentified Aircraft
Sikorsky S-40 landing at Puerto Rico in the camera view from an Unidentified Aircraft.
San Juan (Puerto Rico) to Saint-Thomas (Virgin Islands)
Consolidated 16-1 Commodore
Registration NC668M c/n 12. Delivered new to Pan American Grace Airways in October 1930. Crashed on test at Miami in September 1943.
Saint-Thomas (Virgin Islands) to Port-of-Spain (Trinidad &Tobago)
Sikorsky S-40
Registration NC80V, c/n 2000. Delivered new to PAA-Pan American Airways System in October 1931. Named America Clipper. Acquired by Navy in April 1942. Damaged beyond repair on April 1943.
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