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NORAD or the North American Aerospace Defense Command started tracking #Santa’s movements #onthisday in 1955. Follow along this year @NORADSanta. What is a winter holiday tradition you and your loved ones follow? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 24, 2019.

#Onthisday in 1984, the first Pan American World Airways Airbus A300B4, registered N202PA, departed from New York to Bridgetown, #Barbados. Have you ever flown on an #Airbus 300? #avgeek #PAA #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 23, 2019.

#OnThisDay in 1957, the first Boeing 707 took flight on a rainy day from Renton Municipal Airport in Washington. N708PA, the aircraft that took this first test flight, pictured here, was delivered to Pan American World Airways on Nov 30, 1958. Did you ever fly on a 707? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 20, 2019.

#Onthisday in 2017, Delta Air Lines’ last 747 took its final scheduled international flight from Seoul, South Korea to Detroit, Michigan. Though originally scheduled December 17th, the flight was rescheduled for December 19. Did you ever fly on a #Delta Boeing 747? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 19, 2019.

#ChinaAirlines, the flag carrier of #Taiwan, was founded on December 12, 1959, by retired Chinese Air Force officers. #Transpacific service to San Francisco began in 1970 with the acquisition of the #Boeing 707 jetliner. Have you ever flown on China Airlines? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 16, 2019.

See more photos of #SanFrancisco in the 1920s in “Above the Bay: The Aerial Photography of Stanley Page.” https://t.co/eZlmOaOxuM #StanleyHenryPage #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2019.

#StanleyHenryPage was an early twentieth-century #SanFrancisco #BayArea engineer who was inspired by the new technologies of flight. In the 1920s, Stanley Page merged his love of flying with glass plate photography by capturing images of the Bay Area from his plane. #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2019.

See our new photography exhibition, "Pan American Airways in Central America” on display, pre-security, in Terminal 3. #PanAmCentralAmerica #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 12, 2019.

This circa 1960 photograph shows several #Boeing 707 jetliners in their introduction liveries. Which one is your favorite? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 09, 2019.

Learn more about early transpacific aviation in "China Clipper" on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. https://t.co/MPq52u5pOS #ChinaClipper #avgeek #panam This tweet was posted on December 06, 2019.

Can you imagine a roundtrip flight from the Philippine capital of Manila, to California taking 15 days? In 1935, the first scheduled transpacific airmail flight took 8 days to reach Manila from Alameda, and 4 days to come back, for a total of 123 flight hours. #avgeek #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 06, 2019.

Operating a Boeing 727, the last Pan American World Airways flight took off from Barbados to Miami, Florida, #onthisday in 1991. What are your favorite memories of Pan American? #avgeek #panam #PAA This tweet was posted on December 04, 2019.