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“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.
Hangar No. This image was posted on October 25, 2022. #sfohistory #millsfield #airport #avgeek #aviationhistory
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! This image was posted on October 10, 2022. #indigenouspeoplesday
Flown by Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935) and Charles Ulm (1898–1934), with navigation and radio operations performed by American crew members Harry Lyon (c. This image was posted on October 05, 2022. #enduranceengines #avgeek #aviationhistory #airplane
Designed in the International Style, SFO’s 1954 Terminal was a seven-story building and employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. This image was posted on October 04, 2022. #sfohistory #sfo #avgeek #sfo1954 #airport
Our newest blog post is live! This image was posted on October 03, 2022. #sfohistory #avgeek #airport #cargo
Want to nerd out about airport history? This image was posted on September 29, 2022. #sfohistory #sfhistory #avgeek
#Onthisday in 1927, Hangar No. This image was posted on September 23, 2022. #avgeek #millsfield #sfohistory #sfo #airport
Happy Birthday, BART! This image was posted on September 09, 2022. #sfhistory #bayareahistory #bart #transit
To keep pace with the rapid expansion of commercial aviation in the 1940s and 50s, major airports around the world updated their facilities with longer runways, expansive taxiways, and modern passenger terminals including at San Francisco Airport, where construction of a new terminal began in 1951. This image was posted on August 23, 2022. #sfo1954 #sfohistory #avgeek #airport
The first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 entered service #onthisday in 1971 with American Airlines. This image was posted on August 05, 2022. #dc10 #americanair #avgeek #jumbojet #jetage #airplane #planespotting
During the mid-1920s, San Francisco leaders envisioned their city as the western terminus of a new transcontinental air mail system. This image was posted on July 25, 2022. #avgeek #millsfield #sfohistory #airport
NEW BLOG ALERT: “Airport Leadership and Change Management: An Interview with Angela Gittens” by Debbie Kahn is now on our website! This image was posted on July 22, 2022. #blog #museumlife #avgeek #oralhistory
Last month, Kari Orvik (@kariorviktintypes) visited the airport to give a short talk on her photographs displayed in “Geneva.” “Geneva” is an ongoing photography series that offers a glimpse into San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood at the corner of Mission Street and Geneva Avenue. This image was posted on July 15, 2022. #photography #kariorvik #geneva #sfhistory
This large-scale image is a photographic close-up of five central figures involved in the familiar yet deeply symbolic drama of waiting in an airport for the return of loved ones. This image was posted on July 13, 2022.
“Green Map” by Ellen Harvey inverts the traditional idea of a map to highlight the region’s green space. This image was posted on July 05, 2022. #publicart #ellenharvey #map #greenspaces
Did you know SFO has multiple kids’ spots to help your little ones expend excess energy, such as “Tree Town” in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. This image was posted on July 01, 2022. #kidsspot #airport #play
The Ataturk Hava Limani Airport is an airport that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.
The Istanbul Airport is an airport that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.