@SFOMuseum Instagram Posts tagged #airmail This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Instagram account. There are 16 posts and this is page 1 of 2.
The official inauguration of Pan American Airways’ daily airmail service from Key West to Havana, Cuba began #onthisday in 1927.
This image was posted on October 28, 2019.
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#Onthisday in 1939, Pan American Airways established the first regular air mail service across the Atlantic.
This image was posted on May 20, 2019.
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The first Western Air Express flight departed #onthisday in 1926 with an airmail flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City in a Douglas M-2 mailplane.
This image was posted on April 17, 2019.
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During the 1920s and early 1930s, airlines found it very difficult to make a profit in commercial aviation without a lucrative airmail route contract.
This image was posted on October 19, 2018.
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Susan Hale (1833-1910) edited the six numbers of the Balloon Post, a news sheet in 1871 about airmail via balloon to raise funds for the relief of French war refugees from the Franco-Prussian War.
This image was posted on August 03, 2018.
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From the late 1920s to the 1940s, new airports were built and aviation records were broken on a regular basis.
This image was posted on July 13, 2018.
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From the late 1920s to the 1940s, new airports were built and aviation records were broken on a regular basis.
This image was posted on July 13, 2018.
#airmail #boardgames #games #avgeek #avationgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #vintageaviation #history #avhistory #aviationgeeks #avgeeks
From the late 1920s to the 1940s, new airports were built and aviation records were broken on a regular basis.
This image was posted on July 13, 2018.
#airmail #boardgames #games #avgeek #avationgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #vintageaviation #history #avhistory #aviationgeeks #avgeeks
Our online database features over 10,000 objects from our collection, including over 200 airmail covers from all over the world, commemorating different airmail routes.
This image was posted on February 18, 2018.
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#Onthisday in 1932, Pacific Air Transport (PAT), part of United Air Lines, became a tenant at San Francisco Airport.
This image was posted on December 22, 2017.
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United Airlines traces its origin to the mid-1920s, with the establishment of four airmail routes that would later become the backbone of United’s route system.
This image was posted on July 08, 2017.
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The first Western Air Express flight departed #onthisday in 1926 with an airmail flight from LA to Salt Lake City in a Douglas M-2 mailplane.
This image was posted on April 17, 2017.
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