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#OnThisDay in 1927, the Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco officially began operations. The first graded airstrip was 4,950 feet long and surfaced in rolled rock fill covered with two inches of earth. In its first full month of operation, the airport registered nineteen airplane landings and nineteen passengers. Today the airport has four runways with the shortest measuring at 7,650 feet long and the longest at 11,870 feet long. This image was posted on June 07, 2022.