San Francisco Intl
A Journey Through Time
1927 — 2000
1920s
1927
Mills Field Municipal Airport opened in 1927 on 150 acres of cow pasture along San Francisco Bay. The first scheduled flight was a Pacific Air Transport mail route to Seattle.
1950s
1954
The Central Terminal building opened in 1954, and SFO became the primary West Coast gateway for transpacific travel, with Pan Am launching Boeing 707 service to Asia.
2000s
2000
The new International Terminal opened in December 2000, featuring the SFO Museum — the first accredited museum in an airport — and becoming the largest international terminal in North America.
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