Once a pilot, always a pilot

It only takes one step inside of Bob Booth's home in Navarre to know his life's passion.

His foyer is full of prints, paintings and models of airplanes exhibiting the second most recognizable trademark of the time; Pan American World Airways. The day of his interview, Booth wore a Pan Am world-map button down shirt he purchased two of the last time he visited the Pan Am AWARE store in Miami.

The Pan Am AWARE (airmen worried about retaining employment) Committee was founded by a group of Berlin-based pilots in the early 1970s with the goal of encouraging employees to be politically active in encouraging their elected officials to support Pan Am. The AWARE store continues to sell Pan Am merchandise.

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