THE CLIPPER ARRIVES ON GUAM
October 13, 1935
October 13, 1935
Commemorative mail stamped on the day the Clipper arrived on Guam
On October 13, 1935, the first transpacific airplane flight from the West Coast arrived on Guam. Pan American Airways sent the Clipper from San Francisco to Guam, via Honolulu, Midway and Wake, to survey the route, as Pan Am was ambitiously planning to "fly the Pacific."
The flight from San Francisco to Guam took 8 days to complete. That meant that mail could reach either place in just a week and a day's time.
Within a year, commercial aviation would start on Guam. One could fly in and out of Guam for the first time in history.
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