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Happy Birthday, California! Our great state was admitted into the Union on this day in 1850. In 2015, we presented “Catch Our Style: California Regional Airlines 1950s–1980s” which featured objects from California Airlines such as PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), Air California (later AirCal), and Pacific Air Lines, Air West, and Hughes Airwest. Do you remember this exhibition? What’s your favorite California regional airline? Relive the memories online at: https://bit.ly/3ffZIkU This image was posted on September 09, 2021.

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This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:

Hughes Airwest. It is related to Hughes Airwest (the company) .