MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A piece of aviation history is getting a first-class makeover.

The iconic former headquarters of the gone-but-not-forgotten Pan American World Airways, better known as Pan Am, has been reimagined for a new generation of travelers.

The headquarters, dubbed the “Taj Mahal” after being built in 1963, has now been restored and transformed into a private terminal for luxury flyers. Pan Am went out of business in 1991.

Former Pan Am employees joined an opening ceremony for the swanky digs on Wednesday.

“I went through training here in the Taj Mahal, as we called it,” former flight attendant Renate Van Kempena said.

There’s a spa, nine private suites and a private Transportation Security Administration checkpoint. It definitely beats waiting in the terminal with everybody else.

When travelers are ready to go they put them on a BMW limousine and get driven straight to their plane.

Miami joins the ranks of Atlanta, Los Angeles and others to have these swank spaces for the rich and famous.

The developer P/S has a lease on this historic building.

“We definitely stayed true to the architecture that existed,” Amina Porter, P/S’s chief operating officer, said. “A lot of the historic elements were really architectural and on the outside, so the bristle, the terracotta tiles and there’s a few of them throughout the inside the courtyard and in the hallway.”

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