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#OnThisDay in 1927, the Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco officially began operations.
This image was posted on June 07, 2017.
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On August 27, 1954, the new Central Terminal at SFO was dedicated.
This image was posted on May 25, 2017.
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In 1929, the German airship, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin completed an ambitious, 21-day, round-the-world trip in sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
This image was posted on May 19, 2017.
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#OnThisDay, the first female cabin crewmember, Ellen Church, worked her first flight for Boeing Air Transport(BAT).
This image was posted on May 15, 2017.
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A seldom-seen photo of SFO’s first two administration buildings, which briefly coexisted side-by-side.
This image was posted on May 11, 2017.
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San Francisco had the barest necessities of an airport—an airstrip and an unfinished Administration Building—when it officially dedicated Mills Field on May 7, 1927.
This image was posted on May 08, 2017.
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This year SFO turns 90!
This image was posted on May 04, 2017.
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When the Air Mail Act of 1925 was passed, the City and County of San Francisco recognized the economic importance of establishing a municipal airport as the western terminus of a transcontinental airmail route.
This image was posted on May 03, 2017.
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Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971 with a groundbreaking ceremony that included a water canon salute performed by airport fire trucks.
This image was posted on April 22, 2017.
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The first American Airlines Boeing 747 jet flight to New York took off from SFO #onthisday in 1970.
This image was posted on April 19, 2017.
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Created to celebrate fifty years of scheduled transpacific air service, this color print of a watercolor painting by Oakland-born Dong Kingman depicts a Pan American China Clipper aircraft flying past the uncompleted Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
This image was posted on April 14, 2017.
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This year marks the 90th anniversary of San Francisco International Airport.
This image was posted on March 15, 2017.
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