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Thanks!! RT @osgCisco: As usual, I appreciate the art displays on the long walk to my United gate. This trip: Asian deities @SFOMuseum
This tweet was posted on October 02, 2012.
Woot! Thanks! RT @MarkGraham: Today is SFO->JFK. The "Deities in Stone",Hindu Temple Architecture exhibit, at the United terminal is amazing
This tweet was posted on October 03, 2012.
Spotted recently by our Director: retro paint job on @United's 85th Anniversary A320 http://t.co/r1exOebO
This tweet was posted on September 11, 2012.
22 exhibits, to be exact :) MT @united: So many great guesses to our question. SFO is the airport w/ the #aviation museum & #art exhibition.
This tweet was posted on August 24, 2012.
For Men Only- United's mid-1950s "Chicago Executive" route encouraged pipe smoking & served a steak dinner: http://t.co/tYmTnPyX
This tweet was posted on August 17, 2012.
Looking for basketball players? @United's 1955 team is ready to jump into the #MuseumOlympics! http://t.co/Sea1FHWS
This tweet was posted on August 01, 2012.
Awesomeness abounds in this 1950s United Mainliner Stratocruiser ad but really, it's all about the lounge! http://t.co/3cYI8khf
This tweet was posted on April 23, 2012.
It's tea time! In the 1930s, United Air Lines used lightweight Bakelite serving ware for their "Mainline" services. http://t.co/wcxycS3s
This tweet was posted on March 13, 2012.
RT @flySFO: Always a fun sight to see when we get a visit from this @united beauty! ✈️ #StarWars #OnwardAndUpward https://t.co/622eJ25j3U
This tweet was posted on September 24, 2020.
RT @airandspace: Today in 1932, Amelia Earhart completed the first solo, nonstop flight by a woman across the United States. She flew 2,447…
This tweet was posted on August 25, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1982, the Boeing 767 was introduced into service by United Airlines on their Chicago-to-Denver route. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 767? #MuseumFromHome #avgeek
This tweet was posted on September 08, 2020.
RT @flySFO: #SFO remembers & honors the nearly 3,000 people—including the passengers & crew of @United Flight 93, headed to SFO from EWR—wh…
This tweet was posted on September 11, 2020.
Silver-plated housewares are lustrous and ornate examples of Victorian style. Produced in large quantities in England and the United States, silver plate was a hallmark of eclectic décor during the Victorian era (1837-1901). #VictorianSilverPlate #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on August 04, 2020.
RT @flySFO: Earlier today Jeff Littlefield, #SFO’s Chief Operating Officer, joined a team of @united Airlines employees in the Rotunda in T…
This tweet was posted on June 05, 2020.
United Air Lines received its first 747-100 on June 26, 1970, and a month later launched 747 service from San Francisco to Honolulu. United began to hire male stewards in 1970 for Hawai’i service only. #WidebodyAV #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2020.
United Air Lines’ 747 featured a spacious first-class cabin with a spiral staircase that led up to a first-class lounge, branded as the “Red Carpet Room” and furnished with captain’s chairs, wrap-around couches, and a back wall mural. #WidebodyAV #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2020.
United Air Lines flight attendant Judy Meyer remembers, “We had a fake wedding ceremony on the way over. All kinds of silly stuff to keep their minds off where they were going.” #freedombird #Avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 28, 2020.
RT @flySFO: Today is a historic day at #SFO as we welcomed the very first @VietnamAirlines passenger flight to the United States! This repa…
This tweet was posted on May 07, 2020.
While we can’t offer a full course meal like this one served by United in the 1950s, many people have been cooking up a storm while sheltering in place. What’s your quarantine menu looking like? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 11, 2020.
During the Vietnam War, commercial airliners along with their crews were chartered to fly US troops into combat zones. Soldiers no longer deployed to the war zone with their units, but as individuals or in groups for distribution upon arrival. #FreedomBird #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 15, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1926, Walter T. Varney, a flight school and air taxi operator from San Francisco, launched his air mail service. Varney Air Lines was acquired by @united Airlines in 1930. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2020.
Happy Birthday #United Airlines! Did you know that United is the longest serving airline at San Francisco International Airport (@flysfo)? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2020.
In the United Air Lines’s Boeing 747 first-class stewards and stewardesses offered special wine, fruit, and cheese services in the upper-deck lounge and wore unique uniforms featuring brightly colored plaid sports coats and skirts #WidebodyAV #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 27, 2020.
United Air Lines’s Boeing 747 featured a spacious first-class cabin at the front of the aircraft with a spiral staircase that led up to a first-class lounge, branded as the “Red Carpet Room.” #WidebodyAV #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 27, 2020.
This week on #SFOMat40: In 2003, we presented “Mapping America,” which featured dozens of maps of the United States of America from colonial times to the nineteenth century. Do you remember seeing this exhibition? #SFOMTBT
This tweet was posted on February 13, 2020.
@Maxjb Great question! The United Air Line Mainliner aircraft hanging from the ceiling at the Aviation Museum and Library is indeed a Douglas DC-3! Thanks for asking! https://t.co/4ds2HiV2QQ
This tweet was posted on February 05, 2020.
NOW PLAYING: "Sweetheart Dancers" by Ben-Alex Dupris. Sean and Adrian, a #Ute and #Navajo #twospirit couple challenge perceptions of identity through their participation in Sweetheart Dance competitions at #powwows across the United States. https://t.co/mxbnUykr0O #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/1LW43r9IR9
This tweet was posted on November 26, 2019.
#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from @flySFO. Recreating the journey of the first United 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu in 1970, the airline threw a farewell party in Terminal 3 of SFO. #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on November 07, 2019.
Lesser known and slightly older than the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened on #onthisday in 1936. The bridge has one of the longest spans in the United States and carries over 260,000 cars each day. Have you ever traveled across the Bay Bridge?
This tweet was posted on November 12, 2019.
This #United Air Lines promotional print from around 1941 advertises their Mainliner service by showing the inside of a Douglas Aircraft DC-3. #avgeek #mainliner @united #DC3
This tweet was posted on October 11, 2019.
#Onthisday in 1959, @united & @Delta introduced the Douglas DC-8. Delta’s first DC-8 flight departed from New York Idlewild (later JFK) to Atlanta at 09:20AM. United’s first DC-8 flight departed from @flySFO to NYC 2 hrs & 10 min later. Have you ever flown on a DC-8? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on September 18, 2019.
#KeliyAndersonStaley has been photographing individuals across the United States using the tintype process, a nineteenth century photographic process that was commonly used in portraiture through the 1930s.
This tweet was posted on September 01, 2019.
RT @FlyPanAm: On this Labor Day in the United States, we recognize all those thousands of employees who worked so hard to make Pan American…
This tweet was posted on September 03, 2019.
In the 1990s, United Airlines began operating the 747-400 and issued flight handbook manuals covering takeoffs, cruise, landing, and limitations of the aircraft. #ByTheBook
This tweet was posted on September 03, 2019.
Our conservators are working on a months-long project to restore this United Air Lines DC-8 model. Several of the passengers’ missing parts were recast by our conservators from the remaining intact figures.
This tweet was posted on August 12, 2019.
It's National Aviation Day! What are your favorite aviation memories? #NationalAviationDay #aviation #avgeek #avationgeek #aviation
San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Terminal Building and United Air Lines Douglas DC-8
1959
SFO Museum Collection
2011.032.0525
This tweet was posted on August 19, 2019.




















