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Featuring the Pan American Airways Martin M-130 China Clipper, this colorful postcard from circa 1935 is missing two distinctive Bay Area landmarks, for which construction was underway but not complete. This image was posted on February 12, 2016.

This aircraft register from 1928 logged all of the plane departures and arrivals at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, today’s SFO. This image was posted on February 11, 2016.

Our collection features more than 600 swizzle sticks, used for stirring beverages on flights. This image was posted on February 11, 2016.

This rare view of the interior of the United Air Lines’ San Francisco Ticket Office is from circa 1933. This image was posted on February 10, 2016.

Midway Atoll, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, was used by Pan American Airways as an island stop on their transpacific flights from California to the Philippines. This image was posted on February 09, 2016.

#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled flight from Treasure Island departed. This image was posted on February 05, 2016.

In the competition with Boeing to create the first American-produced turbojet airliner, Douglas developed the DC-8 in the late 1950s and introduced it in 1959, nearly a year after Boeing introduced their 707 jetliner. This image was posted on February 04, 2016.

Back before computers, airlines took reservations manually. This image was posted on February 03, 2016.

Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Carolina #Panthers are going head-to-head with the Denver #Broncos this Sunday at Super Bowl 50! This image was posted on February 02, 2016.

On April 16, 1935, a Pan American Airways Sikorsky S-42 passed through the Golden Gate on the first survey flight to Hawai’i. This image was posted on January 30, 2016.

During the 1950s, flying on a commercial airliner was often a formal endeavor. This image was posted on January 29, 2016.

Check out our thousands of photos of SFO on our online database. This image was posted on January 24, 2016.

In the postwar era, the Coast Guard Station next to SFO was again placed under the Treasury Department and Air Station San Francisco updated its aging aircraft. This image was posted on January 17, 2016.

The eight-passenger Fokker F-7 inaugurated Pan Am’s first scheduled passenger flight from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, on January 16, 1928. This image was posted on January 16, 2016.

The 049 Constellation was an extremely fast, highly advanced, and revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. This image was posted on January 15, 2016.

Recently, there has been talk about re-opening mail routes to Cuba, which is only 90 miles from the most southern point in the United States, Key West, Florida. This image was posted on January 12, 2016.

United Air Lines used the Boeing 80A tri-motor to carry both mail and up to 18 passengers on scheduled flights from San Francisco to Chicago starting in 1928. This image was posted on January 09, 2016.

Happy New Year! This image was posted on December 31, 2015.

Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco was commissioned November 15, 1940, on the eve of World War II. This image was posted on December 20, 2015.

Our book show “Early Birds: Selections from the Tony Bill Aviation Library Collection, 1893–1914” has some amazing illustrated covers. This image was posted on December 19, 2015.

#OnThisDay in 1903, the Wright brothers successfully flew a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This image was posted on December 17, 2015.

For the next month, passengers can enjoy live music playing in SFO's terminals as part of the Sounds of the Season program. This image was posted on December 07, 2015.

#OnThisDay in 1935, Pan American Airway’s famous China Clipper arrived back in Alameda on San Francisco Bay after its record-breaking first flight to Asia. This image was posted on December 06, 2015.

Happy Thanksgiving! This image was posted on November 26, 2015.

Celebrating new routes is a big deal in the airlines industry. This image was posted on November 10, 2015.

This week, our newest exhibition, Early Birds, opens in the Aviation Museum and Library. This image was posted on October 23, 2015.

#OnThisDay the Concorde landed at SFO on October 21, 1974. This image was posted on October 21, 2015.

In the 1930s, TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air, later Trans World Airlines) was known as the Lindbergh Line. This image was posted on October 16, 2015.

Los Angeles is only about 380 miles from San Francisco, but who would trade a four-hour plane ride for a lengthy train journey of over twelve hours? This image was posted on October 13, 2015.

As its name implies, United Airlines originated from a merger of several early air transport companies that began operating more than 75 years ago. This image was posted on October 09, 2015.

In 1945, Ada Brown became the founder and first President of the earliest recognized flight attendant union, the Air Line Stewardess Association (ALSA). This image was posted on October 07, 2015.

In 1915, for the first time in human history, the general public had access to the crowning achievement of the industrial age—the “aeroplane.” Death defying aviators performed aerial stunts at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition as huge audiences swooned. This image was posted on September 30, 2015.

What a beautiful combination. This image was posted on September 17, 2015.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, played a crucial part in aviation history. This image was posted on September 16, 2015.