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Pan American World Airways used McCoy’s watercolors on menus, prints, advertisements, postcards, and other promotional items. Check out more than eighty of these objects here: https://t.co/9V9LUO4Gd9 #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.

In 1962, Pan American World Airways commissioned McCoy to produced eight paintings depicting “Historical First Flights of Pan American Clippers.” Later #PanAm commissioned additional works that included aircraft from its fleet of jet clippers. #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy This tweet was posted on December 14, 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.

Learn more about Maxine Crookston Schmidt in “Mills Field and the San Francisco Airport” on display in the SkyTerrace and online at: https://t.co/aL3GtInqlj The SkyTerrace, located pre-security in Terminal 2, is open Friday-Monday from 10am to 6pm. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2022.

Maxine Crookston transferred to San Francisco in 1946 and became the first female air traffic control watch supervisor in the country. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2022.

Maxine Crookston (1915–2016) was known as “The Voice of San Francisco Airport” from the late 1940s through the 1950s. Born in Salt Lake City, Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2022.

Excluded from civilian work as an airline pilot due to her gender, Crookston switched gears and was hired by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1942 as an air traffic controller in Salt Lake City. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2022.

“I got interested in air traffic controlling because of my love for aviation…Flying was complete happiness to me.” —Maxine Crookston (Schmidt), 2015 #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2022.

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.

In 1957, TWA inaugurated the transpolar great-circle route to Europe from Los Angeles and San Francisco with the Lockheed 1649 Starliner. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 08, 2022.

Several months later, TWA extended service to Rome, Athens, Lisbon, and Madrid with Lockheed 049 Constellations. In 1950, the company changed its name to Trans World Airways, retaining its well-known initials. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 08, 2022.

Until WWII, Transcontinental and Western Air Inc (TWA) primarily operated domestic passenger and mail services in the U.S. In early 1946, TWA inaugurated transatlantic services from NY to Paris and Frankfurt with Lockheed 049 Constellations. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 08, 2022.