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Happy Birthday California! #Onthisday in 1849, the state of California was admitted into the Union of the United States of America. Have you ever flown into to our great state?
#52Posters
This tweet was posted on September 09, 2024.
Initially, Congress banned Concorde service to the United States due to concerns over the aircraft’s sonic boom, but on May 24, 1976, an exception was made for transatlantic service to Washington Dulles International Airport from London and Paris.
#52Posters
This tweet was posted on May 24, 2024.
Introduced in 1936, the same year as the Douglas DC-3, this United Air Lines sage green wool stewardess uniform was worn with a yellow linen blouse and included a pillbox hat complemented with a green and yellow flat bow. #AirlinerChairs #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on December 15, 2023.
This powerful photo essay features individuals with a wide variety of life narratives spanning the last ninety years, offering an important historical record of transgender experience and activism in the United States. #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on January 04, 2024.
The Boeing 40 embarked on its maiden flight in July 1925. The first Boeing aircraft built to carry passengers, it was primarily used as an air mail plane. Boeing Air Transport, which would later become United Air Lines, introduced the Boeing 40 on July 1, 1927. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on July 20, 2023.
This opened up more travel possibilities for passengers as TWA could now operate domestically in the United States and internationally to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. #52Posters
This tweet was posted on March 05, 2024.
Edith Lauterbach (1921-2013) helped establish, what is now known as, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. She and four fellow flight attendants established the Air Line Stewardess Association in 1945 & recruited 75% of United Air Lines' flight attendants. #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 12, 2024.
On this day in 1959, the DC-8 entered service with Delta Air Lines and United Air Lines. In 2021, SFO Museum presented our scale 1:10 DC-8 cutaway model created by Pacific Miniatures in Alhambra, California. #52Objects #AvGeek #DC8
https://t.co/IrPJ5oDXwo
This tweet was posted on September 18, 2023.
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United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Mainliner Captain R. T. Freng cutaway model aircraft c. 1959
Pacific Miniatures, Alhambra, California
scale 1:10
fiberglass, metal, wood, paint, plastic, paper, ink, fabric
Gift of the Rollison Family
2018.128.001 a j
https://t.co/lKudGC7mTt
This tweet was posted on September 18, 2023.
Steel oil drum containers were initially left behind by U.S. Marines between 1915 and 1934 during the United States’ occupation of Haiti. Haitians such as visionary artist, Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) soon began repurposing them. #HaitianMetal #GeorgesLiautaud
This tweet was posted on October 18, 2023.
This 1972 United Air Lines poster featured Hilo Hattie, a famous Native Hawaiian singer and entertainer. In honor for her 71st birthday and United Air Lines' 5th anniversary of service to Hilo, Hawaii, in 1972, the airline named a DC-8 after her. #52posters #5WomenArtists #WHM
This tweet was posted on March 14, 2024.
poster: United Air Lines, Hawaii; 1972
Gift of United Airlines Archives
1999.047.624
https://t.co/ewVNrBmmyP
This tweet was posted on March 14, 2024.
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1. photograph: United Air Lines, Edith Lauterbach; 1953
Gift of Edith Lauterbach
2006.028.167.001
https://t.co/2lsQQyyE6Y
2. Photograph of Edith Lauterbach with two pilots; c. 1952
Gift of Edith Lauterbach
2006.028.174.002
This tweet was posted on March 12, 2024.
After Varney Air Lines was purchased by United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in 1930, Varney started a new business, Varney Speed Lines, in 1934. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines #ContinentalAirlines #VarneyAirlines #SFHistory
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2023.
Happy birthday, United! Did you know that both United Airlines and Continental Airlines both trace their founding to one man? Walter T. Varney, a flight school and air taxi operator from San Francisco, founded Varney Air Lines, which began airmail service #onthisday in 1926.
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2023.
United Air Lines flight attendant Sandra L. Herrmann collected autographs from notable people she met while working, including Willie McCovey, Willie Mays, and other members of the 1963 @SFGiants team. #AvGeek #SFGiants
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2023.
Varney Speed Lines would go on to become Continental Air Lines three years later. The two companies Varney started would merge into one when United and Continental combined in 2010. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines #ContinentalAirlines #VarneyAirlines #SFHistory
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2023.
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souvenir autographs: United Air Lines, Sandra L. Herrmann, San Francisco Giants; 1963
Gift of Sandra Herrmann
2019.132.083
https://t.co/DbXMmw092L
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2023.
May the Force Be With You! This amenity kit issued by United Airlines for their transcontinental Polaris First class service promoted the 2019 film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th
This tweet was posted on May 04, 2023.
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amenity kit: United Airlines, Polaris class, Star Wars; 2019
Anonymous gift
2021.020.0887 a h
This tweet was posted on May 04, 2023.
#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from SFO. Recreating the journey of the first United 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu in 1970, the airline threw a farewell party. #avgeek #UA747Farewell
This tweet was posted on November 07, 2022.
Dubbed the “Friend Ship” when first introduced by United, the wide-body 747 provided an entirely new level of passenger comfort and service. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on November 07, 2022.
Regular and swift same-day air travel between the United States and Australia had been realized. Airmail flight covers were used to commemorate these milestones of the jet age as faster and longer-distance flights were achieved. #AirmailDownUnder #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on November 09, 2022.
“We Are All Connected” was the theme for the 2021-22 school year. This exhibition features the grand prize winner and merit award winners from seven different countries: Slovenia, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, the United States, China, and South Korea.
#StudentArtSFO #LionsClub
This tweet was posted on November 04, 2022.
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photograph: United States Coast Guard Station, San Francisco Airport; 1940
Gift of United States Coast Guard, Air Station San Francisco
2014.114.020
This tweet was posted on November 15, 2022.
Following the peak of their popularity in the West during the 1880s, Japanese designs continued to provide inspiration to the Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States. #Japonisme
This tweet was posted on November 28, 2022.
See “Jet Mainliner in Miniature: The United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Cutaway Model” on display, in the Aviation Museum, located pre-security in the International Terminal, and online at: https://t.co/IrPJ5olOig
This tweet was posted on November 21, 2022.
Rendered against dark skies in the stark light of Keith’s portable flash units, familiar sights of nature are transformed into something new or even revelatory. #photography #TommyKeith
This tweet was posted on November 30, 2022.
Formed in 1931 from the merger and acquisition of several airlines, United Air Lines grew and prospered as one of the leading U.S. coast-to-coast carriers during the ensuing decades. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on December 05, 2022.
United contracted the Syracuse China Company of Syracuse, NY, to create ceramic plates, bowls, coffee cups, and saucers in a classic, beige, scalloped edge design. The pattern comprised a brown line around the rim and United’s shield and circle logo. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on December 05, 2022.
The featured individuals have a wide variety of life narratives spanning the last ninety years, offering an important historical record of transgender experience and activism in the United States.
#ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on December 09, 2022.
Jon Jon Augustavo is a Filipino American Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose visual poem, made in celebration of AANHPI heritage month, shares voices of the Asian diaspora in the United States.
#VideoArtsSFO #APAHM #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM https://t.co/rIBLqiNPMK
This tweet was posted on May 25, 2023.
RT @_Richard_Lyu: Hello beauty! Welcome to @flySFO Got a chance to look closely today. @united
This tweet was posted on May 30, 2023.
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safety information card: United Air Lines; 1953
Gift of Gerald J. Pipinich
2006.029.004
https://t.co/3HORPcDUO3
This tweet was posted on May 15, 2023.
The students employ a variety of mediums, such as graphite, pen and ink, markers, and watercolors. One grand prize winner and twenty-three merit award winners are announced each year on Lions Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
#StudentArtSFO #LionsClub
This tweet was posted on December 19, 2022.
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photograph: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), aerial view; c. 1970
Gift of United Airlines Archives
1999.047.259
This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.

























