# Cleared for Takeoff: Explore Commercial Aviation

Discover documents, photographs, advertisements, objects, reports, timetables, magazines, brochures, and more about the history of commercial aviation. 

Cleared for Takeoff: Explore Commercial Aviation features Pan American World Airways materials from the collections at the University of Miami, HistoryMiami Museum, and Duke University alongside commercial aviation resources from DPLA’s partner network. This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the [Council on Library and Information Resources](https://www.clir.org/) (CLIR) with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Below are some suggested topics to browse. 

- ### [Aircraft](/search?q=aircraft*%20OR%20%22douglas%20DC%22%20OR%20boeing%20OR%20lockheed%20OR%20fokker%20OR%20fairchild%20OR%20sikorsky%20NOT%20pin%20NOT%20insignia)
![aircraft](/static/local/aviation/airplane1_hmm0001_48.jpg "Aircraft")
- ### [Airports](/search?q=airport*)
![airports](/static/local/aviation/airport_asm0299_678.jpg "Airports")
- ### [Advertising](/search?q=advertising+OR+advertisement*+OR+poster*+OR+brochure*+OR+promotional)
![ads](/static/local/aviation/Ads4_DukeD.jpg "Advertising")
- ### [Pan American World Airways](/search?q=+%22pan+american+world%22+OR+%22pan+american+airways%22+OR+%22pan+am%22)
![panam](/static/local/aviation/Pan_Am1_hmm0001_301.jpg "Pan American World Airways")
- ### [Pilots and Flight Attendants](/search?q=pilot+OR+pilots+OR+stewardess+OR+stewardesses+OR+steward+OR+%22flight+attendant%22+OR+%22flight+attendants%22)
![pilots](/static/local/aviation/flight_attendant1_asm0341_67067.jpg "Pilots and Flight Attendants")
- ### [Early Commercial Aviation](/search?before=1945) 
![early](/static/local/aviation/early_aviation1_asm0341_126581.jpg "Early Commercial Aviation")
