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See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels
This tweet was posted on August 23, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on September 04, 2024.
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2. Woman working on an airplane motor June 1942
Alfred T. Palmer (1906–93) | Office of War Information
North American Aircraft, Inc., Inglewood, CA
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
R2024.0705.001
This tweet was posted on September 10, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels
This tweet was posted on October 04, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on April 17, 2024.
Lawler included airliners flying over the locations, juxtaposing the technological triumph of the airplane with historical panoramas. In his depiction of Rio de Janeiro, Lawler placed a Sikorsky S-42 flying over Christ the Redeemer with Sugarloaf Mountain. #AirwaysArtists
This tweet was posted on May 28, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels
This tweet was posted on June 24, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD
#CutAboveModels
This tweet was posted on July 16, 2024.
model airplane: Pan American Airways, Fokker F.VllA-3m General Machado; 1980
Gift of Jim Lund
2014.173.001
https://t.co/fffQKoLkD6
#PAA #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.
Our newest exhibition "A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection" is now on display in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall. On display, are 18 outstanding examples of airliner models from SFO Museum’s aviation collection.
This tweet was posted on March 04, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/wkt1sxI5fY
This tweet was posted on March 04, 2024.
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1. poster: Federal Express; 1970s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2001.135.009
2. model airplane: Federal Express, Dassault Mystere-Falcon 20; 1980s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.082 a b
This tweet was posted on April 17, 2023.
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poster: Airbus A380; 2007
Transfer from San Francisco International Airport
2007.093.007.001-.002
https://t.co/4dR8k66CG9
model airplane: Emirates Airline, Airbus A380-800; 2014
Transfer from San Francisco International Airport
2014.167.042 a b
https://t.co/ytAOpT8XmC
This tweet was posted on April 27, 2023.
The graphic background is a stylized aerial view of SFO’s runways and terminals. The flowers and insects are reminiscent of model airplanes coming in for a landing. #JoyceHsu #APAHM #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM #publicart @SFAC
This tweet was posted on May 02, 2023.
Ever wonder what airplane tickets looked like in the 1920s? Browse through nearly one hundred tickets and ticket jackets spanning from the late 1920s to the 2010s in our online database: https://t.co/HTWhjvSgNU
#AvGeek #Boeing #collections #tickets
This tweet was posted on December 09, 2022.
John T. McCoy, aeronautical artist and historian, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1909. McCoy began his painting career in the early 1930s, painting portraits of private airplanes to finance his flying lessons. #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy
This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1934, the Martin M-130 took its first test flight in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest commercial airplane when delivered in 1935, only three Martin M-130 flying boats were built. #PanAm #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 30, 2022.
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3. model airplane: Braniff International, Concorde; 1970s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.058 a b
This tweet was posted on January 14, 2023.
Celebrations christening airplanes have their roots in christening events held for ships. This TWA (Trans World Airlines) Boeing 747-131, was christened the “City of San Francisco” by diplomat and former child star, Shirley Temple Black on April 5, 1970. #52Objects
This tweet was posted on March 27, 2023.
Piedmont Aviation was incorporated in North Carolina on July 2, 1940, by Thomas Davis. Initially, Piedmont Aviation began as an airplane repair service and a training school for pilots and did not operate its first passenger service in February 1948. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont
This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
The airplane departed from Oakland, CA, on May 31, 1928, and flew first to O'ahu, then to Suva, Fiji, and continued on to Brisbane, Australia, landing on June 9th. The trip covered a total distance of 7,200 miles in 10 days at an average speed of 90mph. #EnduranceEngines
This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
“Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” is on display pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library and online at: https://t.co/DGnv8hSoAF
#EnduranceEngines #AvGeek #AviationHistory #airplane
This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
On April 19 and #onthisday in 1930, the U. S. Army Air Corps held an air show at Mills Field Airport. 135 military airplanes performing precision maneuvers attracted, according to some reports, as many as 100,000 spectators.
#SFOHistory #SFHistory #avgeek #aviationhistory
This tweet was posted on April 20, 2022.
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model airplane: Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL), Short S.30 Aotearoa; 2008
Gift of Jim Lund
2012.150.025
This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
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postcard: Air New Zealand, Douglas DC-8-50; 1960s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.166.0036
model airplane: Air New Zealand, Boeing 747-400; c. 1990s
Gift of Mark F. Adams Collection
2001.106.039 a b
This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
The company had a near monopoly on inter-East Coast services from the 1930s to the 1950s. Eastern promoted its image with an eagle symbol and a slogan describing its airplanes as “The Great Silver Fleet.”
#DefunctThursday #Eastern #AvGeek #AviationHistory
This tweet was posted on May 05, 2022.
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model airplane: Mexicana Airlines, McDonnell Douglas DC-10;
1980s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.024 a b
slide: Mexicana Airlines Airbus A320-200 , San Francisco International Airport (SFO); 1993
Gift of the William Hough Collection
2015.074.219
This tweet was posted on May 19, 2022.
Delta’s inaugural flight from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, on a Travel Air S-6000-B airplane carried five passengers and one pilot. #Delta #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
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postcard: Northeast Airlines, Douglas DC-9-31; c. 1970
Gift of the William Hough Collection
2008.055.494
model airplane: Northeast Airlines, Convair 990A; late 1960s
Gift of John E. Zullo in memory of Angelo Zullo
2009.158.003 a b
This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
In 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. She trained and earned her license at the Moisant Aviation School in New York. In 1912, she became the first woman to cross the English Channel in an airplane.
#EarlyWomenAviators
This tweet was posted on July 06, 2022.
RT @airandspace: In 1958, Emily Howell Warner took her first-ever airplane trip to decide if she wanted to be a stewardess— and left the pl…
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
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model airplane: BEA (British European Airways), de Havilland D.H.106 Comet Mk.4B; 1985
Gift of Jim Lund
2012.150.013
This tweet was posted on February 24, 2022.
Have you visited our new aviation collections website? With 35,000 objects available to browse, our online database features a selection of digitized materials from our museum, archive, & library collections. Check out 100 model airplanes here: https://t.co/suvAtHN7Pm #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 09, 2022.
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model airplane: Pan American World Airways, Douglas DC-6B; c. 1955
Gift of Constance Ogilvie
2002.013.001 a b
This tweet was posted on February 09, 2022.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1964, Beatlemania arrived in the United States via airplane as the Beatles touched down in New York for the…
This tweet was posted on February 07, 2022.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, also known as the #SpruceGoose, was the largest all-wood airplane built and was designed as an ultra-large, transoceanic military transport for use during World War II. It was intended to transport as many as 750 troops. #WingWendesday
This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.





















