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During the postwar era, Pan American World Airways expanded its services throughout the globe and replaced its flying boat fleet with the latest land-based airliners. This image was posted on July 12, 2024. #airwaysartists #avgeek
The Boeing 747SP (Special Performance) took off on its maiden flight on July 4, 1975. This image was posted on July 04, 2024. #avgeek
Virgin America's premium, first-class services included these twenty-one-inch-wide, ultra-plush leather seats arranged in sets of two on each bulkhead. This image was posted on June 26, 2024. #avgeek
Harold McMillan Bixby (1890-1965), a midwestern businessman, started working for Pan American Airways in 1933 and helped manage PAA’s partnership in the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). This image was posted on June 18, 2024. #bixbycollection #panam #haroldbixby #avgeek
Introduced in 1964, the Boeing 727 was a medium-range jetliner with intermediate capacity designed to serve regional airports with shorter runways. This image was posted on June 05, 2024. #avgeek #braniff
Mark von Arenburg enjoyed a prolific art career from the 1920s to the 1950s. This image was posted on June 04, 2024. #airwaysairways #avgeek
This 1966 poster from the San Mateo County Historical Association celebrates the history of Mills Field, renamed to San Francisco Airport in 1931. This image was posted on May 14, 2024. #52posters #avgeek
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.
See “Remain Seated: Airliner Passenger Chairs,” on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library, located on the departures level of the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/sm6ZR2E2Sr #AirlinerChairs #AircraftInteriors #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 15, 2023.
Harold McMillan Bixby, a midwestern businessman with a strong interest in the emerging technology of aviation, worked for Pan American Airways in the 1930s to the 1950s. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
The Harold Bixby Collection, acquired by SFO Museum in 2019, contains over five hundred photographic prints and negatives collected by Harold Bixby throughout his career at #PanAm. #BixbyCollection #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
Our photography essay “Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection, The Photographs” featuring 21 highlights from Harold Bixby’s life with Pan American, is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
#Onthisday in 1933, construction on the Golden Gate Bridge started. An iconic San Francisco landmark and a major tourist attraction, the Golden Gate Bridge attracts over 15 million visitors every year. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 05, 2024.
The bridge has been featured on numerous promotional prints for various airlines. These postcards from the 1950s and 1960s showcase how popular the bridge was in airline marketing. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 05, 2024.
Bixby joined Pan American in 1933 and worked for the airline for the rest of his career, retiring in 1955. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #HaroldBixby #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.
The first Pan American Airways scheduled passenger flight took off on this day in 1928 from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. The eight-passenger, three-engine, Fokker F-VIIa/3m made the 90-mile trip in just under 90 minutes. The one-way fare was $50 or about $887 today #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.
model airplane: Pan American Airways, Fokker F.VllA-3m General Machado; 1980 Gift of Jim Lund 2014.173.001 https://t.co/fffQKoLkD6 #PAA #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.
See “Remain Seated: Airliner Passenger Chairs,” on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library, located on the departures level of the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/sm6ZR2E2Sr #AirlinerChairs #AircraftInteriors #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 31, 2024.
See "VX Forever: The Legacy of Virgin America" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located, pre-security, in the International Terminal and is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/JOmil4pAwj #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 12, 2024.
The Boeing 307 “Stratoliner” was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. This 1940s postcard shows a weather chart advertising the “Stratoliner” which was able to fly at an altitude of over 30,000 feet, above bad weather and turbulence. #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 10, 2023.
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.
What a beautiful bag for your motion discomfort! Did you know we have over 600 airsickness bags on our online database? From advertisements, instructions, patterns, or logos, these bags feature a wide array of graphic design. See more: https://t.co/s1VJFyvHqH #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 24, 2023.
The DC-3 could seat twenty-one passengers comfortably in the standard seven-row, one-by-two-across day-use configuration and as many as thirty-one in later two-by-two-across seat configurations. #AirlinerChairs #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 28, 2023.
The Douglas DC-3 revolutionized commercial aviation during the late 1930s by enabling airlines to profit from passenger services. Prior to its introduction, airlines depended on mail contracts and freight services to remain profitable. #AirlinerChairs #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 28, 2023.
See “Remain Seated: Airliner Passenger Chairs,” on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library, located on the departures level of the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/sm6ZR2E2Sr #AirlinerChairs #AircraftInteriors #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 28, 2023.
The radial Wright J-5 Whirlwind engine was specifically developed for long-range flight and was instrumental in advancing aviation during the late 1920s and well into the 1930s. #EnduranceEngines #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 01, 2023.
This canvas artwork is a one-of-a-kind keepsake that commemorates the closure of Pan American World Airways’ Berlin base in 1991. #52Objects #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 31, 2023.
With a range of 1,500 miles, passengers on a DC-3 could expect to spend long durations of time seated in the cabin, particularly on transcontinental flights. #AirlinerChairs #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 28, 2023.
“Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” is on display pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library and online at: https://t.co/DGnv8iaxON #EnduranceEngines #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on August 01, 2023.
SFO became the 4th busiest airport in the nation in 1962. To maximize @flySFO’s footprint, a late 1960s master plan envisioned the North Terminal (now T3), Central Terminal (T2), and South Terminal (Harvey Milk T1) surrounding a multi-level parking garage. #52Objects #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 07, 2023.
Virgin America commenced operations #onthisday in 2007. A low-cost, domestic airline headquartered in nearby Burlingame, CA, the airline operated a fleet of narrow-body Airbus A319, A320, A320 neo and A321 neo airliners on routes across the U.S. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 08, 2023.
#Onthisday in 1938, Pan American Airways signed a multi-year lease with San Francisco for a base at Treasure Island. In 1935, #PanAm inaugurated the world’s first transoceanic service from Alameda but moved when part of Alameda Island was sold to the US Navy in 1936. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 22, 2023.
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.
Established 100 years ago in 1923, Czech Airlines is the fifth oldest airlines in the world. The airline commenced operations in October 1923. In the 1970s, #CzechAirlines’ livery featured the letters OK on its tail as is the airline's two letter @IATA designation is OK. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 06, 2023.
In October 1951, the airport held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Central Terminal (now Terminal 2). Designed in the International Style, the seven-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 16, 2023.
The administration building cost $160,000 in 1937 and within the first year of operation saw 53,398 persons in passenger traffic. #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 24, 2023.