FreightWaves Classics/Infrastructure: SFO is a key gateway (Part 1)

Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis on the way to a special hangar at Mills Field, September 16, 1927. (Photo: Horace Chaffee/Department of Public Works/opensfhistory.org)

Earlier this month San Francisco International Airport (SFO) celebrated its 95th birthday. The largest of the three major airports serving the San Francisco Bay area, SFO began its life as Mills Field Municipal Airport in 1927. It opened two weeks prior to Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

At the time, the population of the Bay area (San Francisco, Alameda and Santa Clara counties) was about 1.25 million. Today, more than 7 million people live in the same area.

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