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The new International Terminal includes the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Museum and Library and the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, as part of the SFO Museum. [43] SFO's long-running museum exhibition program, now called SFO Museum, won unprecedented accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums in 1999. [44]
Aviation Museum of Santa Paula at the Santa Paula Airport, Santa Paula [3] SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco [4] Flight Path Museum & Learning Center at Los Angeles International Airport Imperial Terminal, Los Angeles, California [5]
San Francisco International Airport, commonly referred to by its airport code, SFO (with each of its letters pronounced individually) is the primary international airport serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the second-busiest airport in California, after Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the 29th-busiest in the world.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
This is a list of airports in California (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
In 1930, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly US$480,000 (equivalent to $9,034,900 in 2024) raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [10] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
San Carlos Airport covers 110 acres (45 ha) at an elevation of 5 feet (2 m). Its one runway, 12/30, is 2,621 by 75 feet (799 by 23 m) with an asphalt surface. Aircraft with gross weight in excess of 12,500 pounds (5,670 kg) are prohibited. [1] San Carlos Airport is home to over 30 aviation-related businesses.
In 2013, it was the seventh busiest in the United States and the twenty-second busiest airport in the world by passenger count. It is United Airlines' fifth largest hub. It also serves as Virgin America's principal base of operations. It is the sole maintenance hub of United Airlines, and houses the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum.