On January 1, 1937, United Air Lines started the first Douglas DC-3 service to San Francisco Airport. United used the 21-seat DC-3 for 8 flights daily from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and coast-to-coast service to New York in just fifteen hours. #avgeek #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on January 03, 2019.
On assignment, #EstherBubley rode crowded buses throughout the country, capturing intimate and empathetic images of bus-riders on routes throughout the Midwest and southern United States.
This tweet was posted on January 06, 2018.
On this day in 1959, the DC-8 entered service with Delta Air Lines and United Air Lines. In 2021, SFO Museum presented our scale 1:10 DC-8 cutaway model created by Pacific Miniatures in Alhambra, California. #52Objects #AvGeek #DC8
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This tweet was posted on September 18, 2023.
Our 2013 exhibition on United Airlines uniforms presented a timeline of fashion in commercial aviation. #TBT
This tweet was posted on October 08, 2015.
Our DC-3 & United We Stand exhibits end next week. Visit our Aviation Museum (Sun-Fri, 10-4:30) before they take off: http://t.co/nORuxIDjvL
This tweet was posted on November 15, 2013.
Our conservators are working on a months-long project to restore this United Air Lines DC-8 model. Several of the passengers’ missing parts were recast by our conservators from the remaining intact figures.
This tweet was posted on August 12, 2019.
Our newest #aviation exhibit shows off part of an amazing gift from the United Airlines Historical Foundation: http://t.co/dFB4C1dg2k
This tweet was posted on April 05, 2013.
Our newest exhibit explores the history of #United Airlines from its origins through the Mainliner decades & the jet age to the present day.
This tweet was posted on June 30, 2017.
Our online database contains a wide variety of airline brochures, including route maps from the 1920s. Check out our collection of maps on our online database: https://t.co/0g3kXvbu8u #avgeek #united
This tweet was posted on November 18, 2018.
Our photography exhibition "United States Coast Guard Air Station SF" has been extended until the end of next month!
This tweet was posted on June 16, 2016.
Pacific Air Transport (PAT) was founded in 1926. PAT flew Ryan M-1 mail planes with passengers often packed in with mail sacks. PAT was acquired by Boeing Air Transport in 1928 and both companies would become part of United Air Lines in the 1930s. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on December 22, 2020.
RT @AirlineGeeks: For the first time in 50 years a scheduled flight to Cuba is departing the United States. What a historic day https://t.c…
This tweet was posted on August 31, 2016.
RT @Clint_Wilder: Very cool @_Recology junk-into-art exhibit at United terminal at SFO. A recycling co with an artist-in-residence progr ...
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2013.
RT @FlyPanAm: On this Labor Day in the United States, we recognize all those thousands of employees who worked so hard to make Pan American…
This tweet was posted on September 03, 2019.
RT @NMAAHC: Born #OTD in 1906, Willa Brown-Chappell was the 1st African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in the United States. #APe…
This tweet was posted on January 22, 2017.