Bay Area local Eugene Leach (1919-2000) spent his teenage years watching the planes take off and land at Oakland Airport and operating a ham radio. The hobbies merged in a career as a radio operator for #PanAm.
This tweet was posted on January 29, 2021.
Between our mountain bike exhibit & @flySFO's new bike assembly stations & employee bike-share, things are rolling along at the airport!
This tweet was posted on July 20, 2012.
By 1930, weather studies confirmed that Mills Field was the best possible location for an airport, and San Francisco began a ten-year purchasing program with the Mills Estate to acquire 1,112 acres. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.
By the mid-1960s, the 707 had been acquired by a long list of carriers and could be seen regularly at airports across the globe. Over 800 of the 707 jetliners were eventually produced. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on June 23, 2021.
Can you believe they were made for remote-controlled flight? RT @terasabianca: 3 reasons why SFO is a great airport. http://t.co/gP203chrPe
This tweet was posted on May 08, 2013.
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.
Construction of a new terminal at San Francisco Airport began in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the seven-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971 with a groundbreaking ceremony that included a water cannon salute performed by airport fire trucks & speeches by Airport Director James Kennedy Carr and Mayor Joseph Alioto. #MuseumFromHome #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on April 22, 2020.
Did you know SFO Museum has several galleries dedicated to photography throughout the airport? Current artists include Jaclyn Wright, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Alejandro Durán, David Shannon-Lier, and Clarissa Bonet. https://t.co/Gx4wdEFTNM #WorldPhotographyDay #WorldPhotoDay
This tweet was posted on August 19, 2019.
Did you know that SFO Museum is an actively collecting institution? Our collection focuses on the history of commercial air transport with a regional emphasis on the West Coast and the Pacific Rim, as well as the history of San Francisco International Airport. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 09, 2023.
Did you know that funds from the New Deal helped San Francisco Airport improve its facilities in the 1930s? #TBT
This tweet was posted on November 12, 2015.
Did you see the Urban Outings article on our program in @SFgate? Come take a walking tour of art at the airport! http://t.co/YcrdxyxA
This tweet was posted on January 19, 2012.
Do you know that the Aviation Museum & Library in the IT is a 90% scale replica of the airport's 1937 passenger lobby? http://t.co/KylbUFzd
This tweet was posted on January 04, 2012.
Do you know that you can search our collection website by airport? Browse through over 4,000 objects online related to our favorite airport, @flySFO—everything from photographs and postcards to correspondence and architectural drawings. https://t.co/1lO1Yj8dcg
#AvGeek #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on June 06, 2022.
Domo arigatou! MT @imranm: SFO airport has some interesting art exhibits... Terminal 3 has a bunch of Robot Portraits http://t.co/Lo1cXLIC
This tweet was posted on November 21, 2012.
Each airport around the world is assigned a three-letter @IATA (International Air Transport Association) code to make them easily and quickly identifiable. @flySFO’s three letter code, SFO, first appeared in the “American Aviation Air Traffic Guide” in December 1947. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 06, 2021.
Each airport around the world is assigned a three-letter @IATA (International Air Transport Association) code to make them easily and quickly identifiable. San Francisco International Airport’s three letter code, SFO, first appeared in 1947. @flysfo #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on January 07, 2021.
Exhibits & yoga! We've got it all! RT @BoingBoing: SFO unveils world's first (?) dedicated yoga room within an airport http://t.co/6aaC38ra
This tweet was posted on January 26, 2012.
For generations of Californians and visitors, the Nut Tree Restaurant in Vacaville, California was a popular destination. In addition to restaurants and shops, it had its own airport that was a favorite among private pilots. Have you ever been to the Nut Tree Airport? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on October 30, 2018.
Fred Eversley, the artist, used to be an aerospace engineer! RT @huffzart: Rad installation #art piece at #SFO airport http://t.co/Mrw6HFuW
This tweet was posted on April 04, 2012.
Given how much and how quickly airports have evolved, it’s almost unfathomable to think that one of the buildings from the era of the 1937 Administrative Building remained until 1997. #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2021.
Got books? A number of airports (including us!) offer library services & ebooks to passengers! http://t.co/2aqcKU0nwy (via @hbaskas)
This tweet was posted on August 21, 2013.
Great, colorful photo of the salt ponds! RT @monideck: Art from above @ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) http://t.co/FFfc1zb9
This tweet was posted on December 28, 2011.