Inaugural Flight April 20, 1935

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• Commercial air service to Hawaii was inaugurated on April 20, 1935 with the arrival of Pan American Airways Clipper ship Pioneer Clipper at Pearl Harbor. Capt. Edwin C. Musick steps aground after piloting the plane on its epochal 18-hour flight from California.
• Pan American Clipper April 20, 1935
• Pan American Clipper ship is assisted into hangar at Pearl Harbor by sailors.

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• Pan American Clipper ship is assisted into hangar at Pearl Harbor by sailors.
• Pan American pilot Edwin C. Musick climbs down from his Clipper ship.
• Pan American Clipper ship 1935.

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• Pan American Clipper April 20, 1935
• Pan American Clipper arrival April 20, 1935
• Crowds in Hawaii inspect the Pan American Clipper air giant. April 20, 1935

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• R.O.H. Sullivan, executive officer of Pan American Clipper, hands the first sack of air mail to John H. Wilson, U.S. Postmaster at Honolulu. April 20, 1935.
• Capt. Edwin C. Musick, skipper of the Pan American Clipper receives a lei upon arrival in Honolulu April 20, 1935. His plane carried the first air mail to arrive in Hawaii.
• First official consignment of federal mail when R. O. H. Sullivan, executive officer of the Pan American Clipper turned over the government bags to John H. Wilson, U.S. Postmaster at Honolulu 18 hours after the mail was dispatched in California.