In 1929 Pan American Airways acquired a controlling stake in Mexicana Airways. This included the route between Brownsville, Texas and Mexico City. This route was extended to the Yucatan Peninsula. Ciudad del Carmen was one of the enroute stops. Pan Am improved the airfield there and built a terminal with a control tower in the mid 1930s. When this photo was taken the terminal was still in use. Today the control tower still exists, but a much newer terminal has been constructed and the runway and other facilities vastly improved.

En route from Naples to its base in Dallas, Texas, and operated by Naval Reserve Base Flight, NAS Fort Worth. A rare visitor to Northolt that I was very lucky to see, having arrived just as it was preparing for take off. This Neptune was involved in the search for USS Thresher, which was lost off the coast of New England on 10 April 1963.

Originally built for KLM in 1957 and operated by them until 1962. Then it was used by Martinair from October 1962 through April 1965. Operated by Modernair as N383M from May 1965 through 1969. It appears the Golden Odyssey Club was leasing this aircraft from Modernair when I took this slide.

While attending college the company I worked for owned this 180. I was able to log some time in it. It was hard to taxi as it had self castering crosswind wheel assemblies which occasionally both toed in at the same time. This photo was taken during a cross country flight from Baton Rouge, LA. to Cozumel, Mexico and back in the summer of 1969.