The Sikorsky S-42 is a long range commercial flying boat built by Sikorsky Aircraft to a specification laid out by Pan American Airways, the aircraft's sole customer, with its prototype first flying in March 1934. Ten examples were built, and S-42s surveyed Pan Am's trans-Pacific routes, opened service between San Francisco and New Zealand, and in July 1937 made the first regular airline crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean starting from the United States.
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1. Wikipedia: Sikorsky S-42
Design and development
The prototype first flew on 29 March 1934, and set ten world records for payload-to-height.
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Manufacturer: Sikorsky Aircraft
In Group: Commercial Flying Boats and Clippers, Lead sentence
The Sikorsky S-42 was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft to meet requirements for a long-range flying boat laid out by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1931.
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