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PAS Gallery: Aviation

The San Francisco Bay Area, and specifically Oakland Airport, was a center of early aviation. Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg, the Dole Race, the Pan Am Clipper, and the U.S. Navy Airships all were a part of this revolution in transportation.
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Amelia Earhart Over Treasure Island
 
Date:
  

March 13, 1937
Photographer:
   Clyde Sunderland
Description:
   Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in a demonstration flight prior to their first attempt to fly around the world.
 
Number:
   AP-141

"Land of the Soviets"
 
Date:
  

October 19, 1929
Photographer:
   Unknown
Description:
   The Russian twin-engine monoplane "LAND OF THE SOVIETS" completed a 13,300 mile trip from Moscow to New York, with a number of intermediate stops including Oakland.
 
Number:
   HST-41

Aircraft at the San Francisco Bay Airdrome
 
Date:
  

Undated (circa 1930)
Photographer:
   Unknown
Description:
   The San Francisco Bay Airdrome in Alameda was one of the busier municipal airports. Here a Ford Tri-motor of Pacific Air Transport loads passengers while a Loening OA-1A amphibian aircraft prepares to leave.
 
Number:
   HST-74B

Three Grumman FF-1 N.R.A.B. Oakland
 
Date:
  

July 5, 1936
Photographer:
   Clyde Sunderland
Description:
   These aircraft operated from the Naval Reserve Air Base at Oakland Airport.
Number:
   APN-134

United Airlines DC-3 Mainliner Over San Francisco
 
Date:
  

1947
Photographer:
   Clyde Sunderland
Description:
   The Douglas Aircraft Corp. DC-3 was an advanced trans-continental aircraft and the flagship of the United Airlines fleet.
Number:
   HST-179A

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