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#OnThisDay in 1946, #Philippine Airlines became the first Asian Airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. This non-scheduled flight from Manila to Oakland, CA, took 41 hours and stopped at Guam, Kwajalein, and Honolulu, flying a DC-4. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 31, 2020.

#OnThisDay in 1946, #Philippine Airlines became the first Asian Airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. This image was posted on July 31, 2017.

#OnThisDay in 1946, #PhilippineAirlines became the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. This image was posted on July 31, 2020. #avgeek #museumfromhome

#OnThisDay in 1959, Qantas’ first jet service departed from Sydney Airport destined for San Francisco. This image was posted on July 29, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA. With this historic flight, she became the first person to fly solo to the United States mainland from Hawai’i. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 11, 2022.

#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA. This image was posted on January 11, 2022. #ameliaearhart #avgeek #avatrix #womeninaviation #aviationhistory

#Onthisday in 1941, Pan American Airways’ Captain John Tilton departed San Francisco for the first airmail service to Fiji. This image was posted on November 05, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1946 the first scheduled passenger flight departed from @flysfo to Honolulu. This tweet was posted on April 08, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1946, the first scheduled passenger flight departed from #SFO to Honolulu, #Hawaii. #avgeek #panam #connie #aviation This tweet was posted on April 01, 2018.

#Onthisday in 1946, the first scheduled passenger flight departed from San Francisco Airport to Honolulu, Hawai’i. This image was posted on April 08, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1949 Pan American introduced the Boeing 377 on their densely traveled SFO to Honolulu route. Have you ever flown on a #Stratocruiser? #AVGeek #PanAm This tweet was posted on April 01, 2019.

#Onthisday in 1949, Pan American World Airways introduced the Boeing 377 into service on the densely traveled San Francisco to Honolulu route. This image was posted on April 01, 2019. #boeing #panamerican #panam #hawaii #avgeek

#Onthisday in 1959, Hawai’i became the 50th U.S. state. Pan American inaugurated Boeing 707 jet service to Honolulu three days after Hawai’i gained statehood. Have you ever been to #Hawaii? #MuseumFromHome #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 21, 2020.

#Onthisday in 1959, Hawai’i became the 50th U.S. state. This image was posted on August 21, 2020. #museumfromhome #panamerican #avgeek

#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.

#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from SFO. Recreating the journey of the first United 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu in 1970, the airline threw a farewell party. #avgeek #UA747Farewell This tweet was posted on November 07, 2022.

#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from SFO. This image was posted on November 07, 2022. #united #boeing747 #sfohistory #avgeek

$955 would get you from Honolulu to Manila both today and in 1940: http://t.co/sCVhV416Pu #PanAm This tweet was posted on November 03, 2014.

A trip on the Martin M-130 China Clipper in 1937 included five stops from San Francisco to Hong Kong: Honolulu; Midway Island; Wake Island; Guam; and Manila, Philippines. This image was posted on May 14, 2016.

An M-130 provided ample space for passengers on the 20 hr flight (yikes!) to Honolulu from SF in 1936 #ChinaClipper This tweet was posted on May 14, 2016.

Batiks from Java

This nonaviation exhibition was on display between May 1992 and October 1992 in the D-01 Central North Connector gallery, located in International Terminal

The Boeing 314 Honolulu Clipper is an aircraft that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.

Born #onthisday in 1897, #AmeliaEarhart, was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, HI, to Oakland, CA! Happy Birthday! #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 24, 2018.

Born in Hawai‘i and raised in Honolulu, #GerryLopez spent much of his youth surfing at #Waikīkī. By the early 1970s, Lopez rode #Pipeline with an unmatched, fluid style that made surfing one of the world’s most dangerous breaks appear Zen-like. #SurfboardsAndShapers This tweet was posted on January 30, 2019.

Can you imagine a roundtrip flight between California and the Philippine capital of Manila taking fifteen days? This image was posted on December 06, 2019. #chinaclipper #aviationhistory #avgeek #panam

Can you imagine embarking on a fifteen-day roundtrip flight between Alameda and Manila? In 1935, the first scheduled transpacific airmail flight took eight days to reach Manila from Alameda, with stops in Honolulu, Midway Atoll, Wake Island, and Guam. #ChinaClipper This tweet was posted on November 29, 2021.

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

Continuation of the epic story of Pan Am for #DefunctThursday: In the early 1930s, Pan American Airways began planning for service across the oceans. This image was posted on August 11, 2022. #defunctthursday #panamerican #panam #avgeek #aviationhistory #chinaclipper #sfhistory

Creating the first transpacific air route required the construction of bases on islands throughout the Pacific for layovers and refueling stations. This image was posted on June 06, 2016.

The Discovery Airways is an airline that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.

Do you ever wonder how animals traveled in the 1950s? Here, #PanAm stewardess Patti Jordan takes time out from her regular duties to feed 5 little passengers that arrived in SF from their native home on the Falkland Islands, en route to Honolulu. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on November 04, 2020.

Do you ever wonder how animals traveled in the past? Here, #PanAm stewardess Patti Jordan takes time out from her regular duties to feed five little passengers that arrived in San Francisco from their native home on the Falkland Islands, en route to Honolulu. #avgeek #penguins This tweet was posted on April 11, 2018.

Do you ever wonder how animals traveled in the past? This image was posted on November 04, 2020. #avgeek #paa #museumfromhome #penguins

During the Vietnam War, commercial airliners, along with their crews, were chartered to fly U.S. troops into combat zones. This image was posted on January 14, 2020. #freedombird #avgeek #veterans #vietnamwar #airlines #airline #crewlife

First delivered on January 31, 1949, the first flight of Pan American Airway's Boeing 377 was from SFO to Honolulu #onthisday in 1949. This image was posted on April 01, 2017. #boeing #boeing377 #panam #avgeek #aviationhistory