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From the career history of Captain Charles Marinus Sundby: a celebration of his first solo flight on June 21, 1935, at the Avnø Air Station. It was traditional in the Danish Naval Air Service to give the successful soloist a bouquet of wildflowers. #avgeek #pilotlife This tweet was posted on November 18, 2021.

Introduced by Singapore Airlines on October 25, 2007, the last A380 built made its first flight in March 2021. 251 of the airliners were built between 2005 and 2021. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2021.

The Airbus A380 is the world's only full-length double-decker commercial airliner. It is currently the largest operating passenger jet in the world that can safely transport between 450 to 853 people, depending on class configuration. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2021.

Why, yes. @flySFO has always looked great at night, too. #avgeek #SFOHistory #ThrowbackThursday #TBT This tweet was posted on November 04, 2021.

The first Boeing aircraft to incorporate fly-by-wire controls, the 777 is also the first to use a fiber optic avionics network on a commercial airliner. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 777? #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.

The program called “Working Together” used computer-aided three-dimensional interactive applications, making the Boeing 777 the first completely digitally designed airplane. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.

Featuring images taken in Central America by #PanAm's public relations & advertising manager in the winter of 1930–31, “Pan American Airways in Central America” is on display pre-security on the departures level of Terminal 3 and online at https://t.co/cMoTZAe4Q1 #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Pan American Airways began service in Central America with the Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, a robust, three-engine, twelve-passenger airliner affectionately known as the “Tin Goose.” #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation. #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Taking off from Idlewild airport in NY #onthisday in 1958, #PanAm became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707. 111 passengers boarded the jetliner, named “Clipper America,” bound for Le Bourget Airport, Paris. #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 26, 2021.

Pan American Airways was awarded the overseas airmail route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, with a deadline to start by October 19, 1927. #Onthisday in 1927, Cy Caldwell took off for Havana from Key West in a Fairchild FC-2, named La Niña, with 7 bags of mail. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.

See “Mills Field and the San Francisco Airport” on display in the SkyTerrace. The SkyTerrace is open Friday through Monday pre-security in Terminal 2. https://t.co/aL3GtIF1cR #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.