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#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.
#PanAmericanAviationDay encourages citizens from North, Central, & South America to increase their interest in aviation and commemorates the Wright Brother’s first sustained flight of a controlled, powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. What is your favorite aviation memory? #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on December 17, 2021.
Learn more about Maxine Crookston Schmidt in our exhibition, “Mills Field and the San Francisco Airport” on display in the SkyTerrace & online at: https://t.co/aL3GtInqlj
The SkyTerrace, located pre-security in T2, is open Friday-Monday from 10am to 6pm.
#SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Hired by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1942 as an air traffic controller in Salt Lake City, she transferred to San Francisco in 1946 and became the first female air traffic control watch supervisor in the country.
#SFOHistory #avgeek #SFO #SFHistory
This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. She served with the Civil Air Patrol as a survey pilot and with the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, but she was excluded from work as an airline pilot due to her gender. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Maxine Crookston (1915–2016) was known as “The Voice of San Francisco Airport” from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
#SFOHistory #avgeek #SFO #SFHistory
This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
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.
Originally formed as Transcontinental & Western Air in 1930, #TWA was one of the oldest airlines in the U.S. and traced its history back to Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925. What is your favorite TWA memory? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
Can you believe it has been 20 years? On December 1, 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri, and landed in St. Louis. #avgeek #OTD
This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
"Flight Patterns" is on display post-security in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/O69YNba2Jq
#FlightPatterns #AvGeek #Braniff #EmilioPucci #Pucci #uniform #flightattendant
This tweet was posted on November 30, 2021.
The work requires assembling, documenting, photographing, and disassembling the models. This particular aircraft is a remote controlled 1:3.5 scale model of a Davis D-1 with a functional radial engine. #BehindtheScenes #AvGeek #MuseumMonday #MuseumLife
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.
What’s happening at the museum? Our collections team is inventorying and surveying a group of model aircraft in our collection – some of which are quite large! #BehindtheScenes #AvGeek #MuseumMonday #MuseumLife
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.