Mexicana de Aviación Minatitlán, Ixtepec and Tapachula. In addition, new routes were opened to El Salvador, Costa Rica and Cuba, in addition to Nicaragua and Panama, made possible by their association with Pan Am via Pan Am's Miami base (Pan Am had undertaken flights from Mexico City to Miami.) Mexicana became the first foreign airline ever to fly to Los Angeles, when it began flights on January 3, 1936. The company expanded its fleet during that decade, with the addition of eight Fairchild FC2s and three Fokker F.10s. One of the Fokker F.10's, tail number X-ABCR, crashed at Miami on August 7, 1931
S. Jon Kreedman S. Jon Kreedman S. Jon Kreedman (1921-1999) was an American real estate developer, banker and philanthropist. S. Jon Kreedman was born circa 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a carpenter-turned-real estate developer. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1941, and he served in the United States Army during World War II. Kreedman began his career by working for his father at the age of 15, first as a carpenter and later as a builder. He later worked for a construction firm. In 1948, he founded his own real estate development company, S. Jon Kreedman & Co., a real