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Happy National Donut Day! Virgin America began service to Portland International Airport (PDX) in 2012. This First-Class amenity kit features a cartoon illustration of a woman eating a Voodoo Doughnut in front of Mount Hood. What’s your favorite donut? #NationalDonutDay #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 03, 2022.
📸: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Central Terminal; 1967 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.1563 https://t.co/qRoRPm7aSf This tweet was posted on June 06, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1927, the Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco officially began operations. #AvGeek #AviationHistory #SFHistory #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on June 07, 2022.
The first graded airstrip was 4,950 feet long and surfaced in rolled rock fill covered with two inches of earth. Today the airport has four runways with the shortest measuring at 7,650 feet long and the longest at 11,870 feet long. #AvGeek #SFHistory This tweet was posted on June 07, 2022.
📸: negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, aerial; 1928 Transfer from @flySFO 2011.032.0081 negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, runway grading; 1927 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.0015 This tweet was posted on June 07, 2022.
📸: luggage label: National Air Lines; late 1930s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.168.432 postcard: National Airlines, Douglas DC-4, Miami International Airport; 1952 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.2084 This tweet was posted on June 09, 2022.
We’re hiring! Are you an experienced registrar looking for a fun, unique, and fast-paced workplace? Come join the only @AAMers accredited museum at an airport! To learn more & apply: https://t.co/ulb4LuV44g #museumjob This tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
RT @DavidGallagher: Mills Field, April 19, 1930 Going out of town, so I thought I'd see what kind of pic of the airport I could find. Aeri… This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
“Tree Town” is located, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1, Boarding Area B, near Gate B19. https://t.co/sbzcHxv0Au #KidsSpot #airport #play This tweet was posted on July 01, 2022.
📸 2/3: postcard: Douglas DC-3, Ozark Air Lines, Lambert St. Louis Municipal Airport; c. 1950 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1179 postcard: Ozark Air Lines, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34; 1980s Gift of William Rys, Jr. 2019.085.089 This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
"Waiting" is a photographic close-up of five figures involved in the familiar yet deeply symbolic drama of waiting in an airport for the return of loved ones. The photograph was translated into a digital image with each pixel represented by a one-inch mosaic tile. #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 13, 2022.
📸 1/2: postcard: Southwest Airways, Martin 202, San Francisco International Airport (SFO); c. 1957 Gift of Trudy and Henry Sandoval 2010.012.041 photograph: Pacific Air Lines, Boeing 727-100; 1960s Gift of the William Hough Collection 2012.167.027 This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.
Last month, Kari Orvik visited the airport to give a short talk on her photographs displayed in “Geneva”, an ongoing photography series that offers a glimpse into San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood at the corner of Mission Street and Geneva Avenue. #Photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.
She then went on to fulfil other roles in aviation including serving as the CEO of Atlanta-Hartsfield and Miami International Airports and the Director General of ACI World from 2008-2020. Read our blog post about Angela Gittens’ oral history interview: https://t.co/LDnVwRIgM0 This tweet was posted on July 22, 2022.
City officials signed a three-year lease for 150 acres of cattle-grazing land from Ogden Mills, and less than two months later on May 7, a 5,770-foot-long, dirt-surfaced runway was dedicated at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco. #AvGeek #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
📸: negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport site, Mills property east of Bayshore Highway before airport improvements, aerial; 1927 Transfer 2011.032.0021 This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
The first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 entered service #onthisday in 1971 with @AmericanAir. The #DC10 was initially designed to be operated on transcontinental or regional routes at smaller airports thus broadening the widebody market to more airlines and the public. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 05, 2022.
📸: photograph: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), American Airlines, McDonnell Douglas DC-10; 1970s Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 1997.52.084.068 - poster: McDonnell Douglas DC-10; 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection 2006.010.285 This tweet was posted on August 05, 2022.
📸: All: Pan American Airways poster: Air Mail across the Pacific; 1937 Gift of Gary Frink 2013.038.001 - Martin M-130 “China Clipper”; 1935 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 1993.03.11 This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
See “The 1954 San Francisco International Airport Terminal” on display in the SkyTerrace in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/1CYQBq5tPi The SkyTerrace located pre-security in Terminal 2 and is open Friday to Monday from 10 am to 6 pm. #SFO1954 #SFOHistory #AvGeek #airport This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
The new terminal building was dedicated on August 27, 1954, at the renamed San Francisco International Airport. Passenger operations commenced on Sept. 1 and exceeded 2.5 million in the first year. By the mid-1960s, passenger numbers skyrocketed to more than 10 million. #SFO1954 This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
To keep pace with the rapid expansion of commercial aviation in the 1940s and 50s, major airports updated their facilities with longer runways and modern passenger terminals including at @flySFO, where construction of a new terminal began in 1951. #SFO1954 #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
📸: negative: San Francisco Airport, Terminal Building construction; 1952 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.0306 negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Terminal Building interior; 1962 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
Hangar No. 1, the first aircraft hangar at Mills Field, was located 150 feet to the south of the original administration building and completed in September 1927. Lettering on the roof identified the airport from above. #SFOHistory #MillsField This tweet was posted on October 25, 2022.
📸 1/2: negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, Hangar No. 1; 1928 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.0042 This tweet was posted on October 25, 2022.
📸 2/2: negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, Hangars Nos. 2, 3, 4; 1928 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.0068 This tweet was posted on October 25, 2022.
📸 1/3: photograph: American Airways, Fairchild Pilgrim 100-A; c. 1931 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2008.128.001 https://t.co/YRTMfRnsPn This tweet was posted on April 15, 2022.
📸 3/3: photograph: San Francisco Airport, United Air Lines, Douglas DC-3; 11/16/1938 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 1997.52.050.002 b This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv, in modern day #Ukraine in 1889. In 1923, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation (later renamed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company). Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) is named in his honor. #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 01, 2022.
Sold through mail-order catalogs and at airport stores and sometimes given out to first-class passengers, airline bags became a desirable status symbol that identified its user as a member of the new globe-trotting jet set. https://t.co/oVQUiov5WJ #flightbags #airlinebags #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
📸: 1/2 slide: Southwest Airlines, San Francisco International Airport (SFO), International Terminal with Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-200; 1985 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 1993.07.39 This tweet was posted on March 15, 2022.
Construction of a new terminal at San Francisco Airport began in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the seven-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
See "The 1954 San Francisco International Airport Terminal" on display in the SkyTerrace and online at: https://t.co/zF42RVXD05 The SkyTerrace, located pre-security in Terminal 2, is open Friday-Monday from 10am to 6pm and it is free! https://t.co/oOlmCB27Yp #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
To keep pace with the revolution in commercial aviation, major airports around the world updated their facilities with longer runways, expansive taxiways, and modern passenger terminals. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1964, Eastern Air Lines first introduced the Boeing 727. The aircraft was a medium range, intermediate-capacity jetliner that could serve regional airports with short runways. #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 01, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1959, an American Airlines Boeing 707 took off from Los Angeles to New York. Landing at Idlewild, now known as Kennedy International Airport, the Boeing 707 completed the first scheduled nonstop intercontinental jet passenger service. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 25, 2022.