The Society will be holding its annual gala and fund raising event themed Salute the Crew, Celebrating the Flight Attendant on Thursday November 7, 2024. The evening will recognize the key role flight attendants have played in commercial aviation history in protecting and promoting aviation safety and in being the face of the aviation industry…
Pan Am admirers gathered at SFO’s Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum for a special screening of the iconic airline’s historical film collection and a chance to meet Edward Trippe, recent recipient of the SFA Achievement in Aviation award, chairman of The Pan Am Historical Foundation and the son of Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am.…
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2023 A large crowd of aviation enthusiasts gathered at the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum at SFO to honor this year’s Achievement in Aviation Award recipient Edward Trippe, chairman of the Pan Am Historical Foundation and son of Pan Am founder Juan T. Trippe. This year’s award was presented to Trippe by…
In the fall of 2020, the San Francisco Aeronautical Society aquired and gifted to the SFO Museum, eleven model airplanes that represent nearly fifty years of aircraft development between the mid-1920s and early-1970s. The making of scale aircraft models was an important part of the design, manufacturing, and marketing process for both airlines and aircraft…
The San Francisco Aeronautical Society is proud to announce the acquisition and donation to SFO Museum of a collection of commercial airline insignia spanning nearly seventy years of commercial aviation, from the 1920s to the 1990s. Recognized the world over as emblems of the intrepid aviator, these unique and individualized insignia have served to identify…
Spring 2018 – John Travolta receives the 2017 Achievement in Aviation Award at our November 2017 gala, “A Century of Airplanes”. The Society’s newest acquisition, “The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection”, is gifted to the SFO Museum. Meet our newest board member, John L. Martin. View Newsletter