Pacific
International Airways Fairchild 71 NC10624
(c/n 648)
Certainly PIA did not standardize on their
livery in the short life (1931 -1932) of the company.
They were a big user of the Fairchild 71,
however, which is probably why it was so appealing to
Pan American
to amalgamate the line with Alaskan Airways who also had a similar
fleet. The
identity
of the second machine in the shot below is unknown, but I suspect the
bottom image depicts
NC10624
again with a different livery. All three photographs are from the
historic archives of the
Museum of
Alaska Transportation and Industry and are shown here courtesy of the
Lars Opland
collection