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Air California was founded in 1965 by a group of Orange County businessmen who recognized a great need to serve the rapidly expanding business communities and population centers of the region with intrastate air service from Orange County Airport (later named John Wayne Airport). This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.

📸 1/3: photograph: San Francisco Airport, air traffic control tower; late 1940s In memory of Maxine Crookston Schmidt 2016.067.016 This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.

📸 3/3: photograph: Maxine Crookston (Schmidt), air traffic controller; In memory of Maxine Crookston Schmidt 2016.067.027 photograph: San Francisco Airport, air traffic controller Maxine Crookston; late 1940s In memory of Maxine Crookston Schmidt 2016.067.014 This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.

@Carmard @IATA @flySFO Great question! SF was given an 'O', because that worked nicely for the ‘o’ in Francisco. The end letters do not actually stand for anything, but were given to airports with an attempt to match or approximate them to something recognizable. We hope this answers your question! This tweet was posted on December 07, 2021.

Each airport around the world is assigned a three-letter @IATA (International Air Transport Association) code to make them easily and quickly identifiable. @flySFO’s three letter code, SFO, first appeared in the “American Aviation Air Traffic Guide” in December 1947. #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 06, 2021.

📸: photograph: San Francisco Airport, TWA (Trans World Airlines) Lockheed L-049 Constellation; late 1940s In memory of Maxine Crookston Schmidt 2016.067.030 This tweet was posted on December 06, 2021.

As airline travel became more reliable during the 1930s, San Francisco’s airport initiated major improvements to keep pace. By 1937, SFO had paved and widened runways and taxiways to welcome heavier and faster airliners such as the Douglas DC-3. #SFOHistory #MillsField This tweet was posted on November 23, 2021.

📸 1/2: negative: San Francisco Airport, United Air Lines, Douglas DC-3 Mainliner; 1938 Collection of SFO Museum 2011.032.0176 photograph: San Francisco Airport, WPA Project 1727 runway paving; 1936 Transfer 1997.52.055.005 This tweet was posted on November 23, 2021.

Our newest gallery, the Kadish Gallery, is now open! Named after Ruth Kadish, SFO’s first female Airport Commissioner, Kadish was a champion of public art at SFO and was always thinking about how to make SFO a nicer place for passengers. #KadishGallery This tweet was posted on November 24, 2021.

📸 2/2: photograph: San Francisco Airport, Administration Building; 05/01/1937 Transfer 1997.52.078.031 This tweet was posted on November 23, 2021.

📸: photograph: San Francisco Airport; 1940s In memory of Maxine Crookston Schmidt 2016.067.018 photograph: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Central Terminal; c. 1985 Transfer 2008.129.015 This tweet was posted on November 04, 2021.

📸3/3: Puntarenas airport c. 1930–31 Daniel Rochford (1900–89) archival pigment print SFO Museum Gift of Jon E. Krupnick 2010.281.005.166 R2019.3901.012 This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Taking off from Idlewild airport in NY #onthisday in 1958, #PanAm became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707. 111 passengers boarded the jetliner, named “Clipper America,” bound for Le Bourget Airport, Paris. #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 26, 2021.

📸: negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, Hangar No. 1; 1928 Collection of SFO Museum 2011.032.0042 This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.

#OnThisDay in 1974, the Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation Concorde supersonic transport (SST) landed at @flySFO. This brief visit was part of a promotional tour to airports around the world. The Concorde was in service from 1976 to 2003. Did you ever fly on a #Concorde? This tweet was posted on October 21, 2021.

📸: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Concorde; 1974 Transfer 2011.032.2610 This tweet was posted on October 21, 2021.

📸2/2: digital photograph: Virgin America, Airbus A320-200, San Francisco International Airport (SFO); 2014 Gift of Michael Miller 2018.092.029 This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.

SFO has witnessed great strides in aviation. For close to a century, the airport reinvented itself numerous times. Looking out over the busy runways and terminals today, one can only imagine the lonely stretch of pastureland that predated SFO. #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.

📸: negative: San Francisco Airport, aerial; 1939 Transfer from City and County of San Francisco 2009.104.059 This tweet was posted on September 23, 2021.

📸 2/2: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), dedication of South Terminal; 1963 Transfer 2011.032.0852 This tweet was posted on September 14, 2021.

RT @flySFO: #SFO is the first US airport to require #COVID19 vaccinations for all on-site employees. Effective immediately, every SFO tenan… This tweet was posted on September 22, 2021.

By 1930, weather studies confirmed that Mills Field was the best possible location for an airport, and San Francisco began a ten-year purchasing program with the Mills Estate to acquire 1,112 acres. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.

On September 15, 1963, the South Terminal (now Harvey Milk Terminal 1) was dedicated at San Francisco International Airport. This was the Airport's first major addition since the Central Terminal (now Terminal 2) was completed in 1954. #SFOHistory #SFHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 14, 2021.

📸 1/2: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), aerial, South Terminal construction; 1963 Transfer 2011.032.0527 . negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), aerial; 1963 Transfer 2011.032.1100 This tweet was posted on September 14, 2021.

📸1/2: postcard: Lufthansa, Airbus A300; late 1970s Gift of Craig Lynes 2003.105.184 postcard: Zurich - Kloten Airport, Airbus A300, Air France; 1970s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.2412 This tweet was posted on September 01, 2021.

📸: Aftermath of Pan American World Airways Flight 845 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) 1971 photographs by Henry Q. Barrientos, aircraft maintenance inspector SFO Museum, Gift of Cynthia Balsbaugh 2008.077.016 2008.077.013 2008.077.012 This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.

📸: photograph: San Francisco Airport, aerial view; c. 1930 George E. Russell Transfer 1997.52.040.018 slide: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, Administrative Building; c. 1930 Transfer 2010.204.013 This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.

RT @flySFO: 🐶 🐾 Happy #NationalDogDay! Our #SFOWagBrigade doggies miss being at the airport and seeing passengers and employees. We look fo… This tweet was posted on August 26, 2021.

📸 2/2: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), hovercraft; 1965 Transfer 2011.032.1327 timetable: SFO Helicopter Airlines; 1965 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2007.011.491 This tweet was posted on August 11, 2021.

📸 3/4: photograph: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747-100; 1970s Transfer 1997.52.084.072 photograph: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747-100; c. 1990 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2012.167.032 This tweet was posted on August 18, 2021.

📸: photograph: San Francisco Airport, aerial view; 09/26/1930 George E. Russell Transfer from City and County of San Francisco 2008.129.041 This tweet was posted on August 19, 2021.

Issued in each of the three colors, the outerwear ensemble was a necessity in the late 1960s, when many airports did not have covered jet bridge walkways to protect crew and passengers from the elements as they boarded aircraft. #FlightPatterns This tweet was posted on August 06, 2021.

📸 1/2: brochure: SFO Helicopter Airlines, ground transport; c. 1965 Gift of the Paul H. Kowalewski Collection 2011.126.425 negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), hovercraft; 1965 Transfer 2011.032.1321 This tweet was posted on August 11, 2021.

📸 3/3: Trans World Airlines (TWA) hostesses at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) wearing Dalton winter uniforms 1968 Courtesy of TWA Museum at 10 Richards Road, Kansas City, Missouri R2021.0605.001 This tweet was posted on August 06, 2021.

RT @flySFO: 🧵 ICYMI: #SFO surpassed 3️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ (thirty thousand) #COVID19 vaccines administered at the airport! 👇 https://t.co/MzADbo… This tweet was posted on August 09, 2021.

The Westland SRN-5 held 15 passengers and traveled at speeds up to 50 knots between Oakland International Airport, downtown San Francisco, and San Francisco International Airport. #avgeek #SFOHistory #ThrowbackThursday This tweet was posted on August 11, 2021.

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