Hawaiian Airlines celebrates 80 years his story begins in 1929 when the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company in the Territory of Hawaii decided to inaugurate airline service between the islands. Thus T BY BARRY SCHIFF PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY HAWAIIAN AIRLINES was born Inter-Island Airways. The fledgling airline’s first airplanes were to be twin-engine, eight-passenger Sikorsky S–38 Amphibions (Sikorsky’s preferred spelling). Plus— See a video of the Bellanca Pacemaker. AOPA PILOT • 59 • MAY 2011