CLIPPER ENDEAVOR HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
On Good Friday, 11 April 1952, Clipper Endeavor (NC88899), a large commercial airliner, took off from Aeropuerto de Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico bound for New York’s Idlewild (later JFK) Airport. On board were 64 passengers, mostly Puerto Rican residents, headed to the US mainland in search of work or to celebrate the Easter holiday with family. Captain John C. Burn, a PAA veteran who started his career in flying boats, led the crew of five. Burn was perhaps best known to the public as the husband of glamorous singer-actress, Jane Froman. Ironically, the two had met and fallen in love as the result of a wartime crash nine years earlier.
Clipper Endeavor Project Overview
The search for Clipper Endeavor is an ongoing effort led by Air/Sea Heritage Foundation to find the wreckage of Pan American World Airways Flight 526A that crashed off San Juan, Puerto Rico in April 1952. Locating and identifying the site will allow characterization and protection of this important cultural heritage resource, while hopefully spurring a greater awareness and appreciation for its historical significance.