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B737 American Pacific Airways

AMERICAN PACIFIC AIRWAYS was founded on 22 December 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina USA as Atlantis Airways. Founders were local Travel Agencies and the State of North Carolina. The Federal State provided the main part of the start-up capital, which was enough to buy two brand new Douglas DC-3, of which the first one was picked up in Long Beach on the same day the company was founded. It departed on 22 December 1948 at 05:10 PM in heading Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where it arrived in the evening of the 24 December 1948, received by a large celebration. The second plane followed in January 1949.