Ninety years ago, Pan Am World Airways flew its first flight, delivering mail from Florida to Cuba. For nearly 30 years, the carrier called New York City home, with its name and familiar globe logo adorning the Manhattan skyline until it went out of business in 1991. The airline left a legacy of firsts.

“It was first across the Atlantic, first with flights across the Pacific and the first to offer around-the-world service,” said Kelly Cusack, the curator of the Pan Am Museum Foundation.

On Saturday, a different kind of first will be remembered at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, Long Island, when the Pan Am Museum Foundation honors the crew of what officials said was the first airliner to ditch in the ocean with no fatalities.