@SFOMuseum Twitter Posts Tagged PanAm This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Twitter account. There are 331 posts and this is page 23 of 28. See all the tags or all the Twitter posts that have been archived so far.

Happy Chinese New Year! In the 1980s, #PanAm printed menus featuring a Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco. This tweet was posted on February 08, 2016.

#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled flight from Treasure Island departed. #PanAm This tweet was posted on February 05, 2016.

Have you wondered how they fixed plane engines in the old days? By crawling in! #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 27, 2016.

Juan Trippe reportedly ‘discovered’ Wake Island while looking for landings for #PanAm’s transpacific route at @NYPL. This tweet was posted on January 26, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1970, the first scheduled #PanAm Boeing 747 flight took off from JFK International Airport. This tweet was posted on January 22, 2016.

#OnThisDay in 1928 a Fokker F-7 inaugurated #PanAm’s first scheduled passenger flight from Key West to Havana. This tweet was posted on January 16, 2016.

In 1938, Pan American relocated its seaplane base from Alameda to Treasure island. #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 15, 2016.

The Pan American base on Treasure Island included the administration building and a maintenance hangar. #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 15, 2016.

After the US Navy acquired Treasure Island for wartime service, #PanAm moved their Pacific Base to SFO. #TBT This tweet was posted on January 14, 2016.

The first contract regular airmail route to Cuba was awarded to Pan American Airways in 1928. #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 12, 2016.

The US plans to re-establish regular mail service to Cuba by direct flights, first pioneered by #PanAm in the 1920s. This tweet was posted on January 12, 2016.

Clippers of water and air cruise past the Golden Gate Bridge in this 1937 postcard. #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 12, 2016.