1930-1940
Scheduled services expand
- From 5 to 79: Number of Florida Airports Skyrockets as the New Decade Unfolds
- Curtiss Wright marine base opens on Biscayne Boulevard
- NYRBA and Pan American vie for Dinner Key – and South America
- Eastern Air Transport and Pan Am coordinate Air Mail operations at NW 36 Street Airport
- Eastern Air Transport inaugurates passenger service between Miami and New York
- Pan Am invests in flying boats, shifts operations to Miami’s Dinner Key
- Florida’s own National Airlines begins service from St. Petersburg
- Eastern Air Lines moves its headquarters to NW 36th Street, makes Miami its permanent home
- Amelia Earhart makes Miami her last stop on U.S. soil
- Embry-Riddle School of Aviation is founded in Florida
- Eastern Air Lines celebrates 10th birthday with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
- Tallahassee becomes latest Florida city to be connected to rest of country via air












