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7 unusual facts about San Francisco International Airport


DFS Galleria

DFS also entered the U.S. market by opening stores at San Francisco International Airport and in downtown San Francisco.

Janet Echelman

At the San Francisco International Airport, Echelman transforms the terminal with fictional nature that subtly engages viewers with real and imagined natural forces.

Jiangshan High School

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport.

Lunar Design

Two of LUNAR product designs for Oral-B and Philips were featured in the “Prototype to Product” exhibit in the United Airlines terminal at the San Francisco International Airport.

Marilyn Lacey

Marilyn volunteered at the San Francisco International Airport, helping refugees from Southeast Asia make their connecting flights to the small towns across America where they were being resettled.

Mr. Monk and the Airplane

While at San Francisco International Airport, Monk sees Barbara Chabrol stand on her toes to kiss her husband Stephen Chabrol.

Tim Z. Hernandez

The result, a 32 × 25 ft traditional fresco mural on permanent display at the San Francisco International Airport.


Alaska Airlines Flight 261

Alaska 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, with an intermediate stop at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.

Frederick Marriott

The Hermes Avitor Jr. was built in the basement of the publishing building largely by candlelight and was flown at San Jose, California's Shellmound Park racetrack near the current San Francisco International Airport.

Precision runway monitor

Airports at which PRM is in use in the United States include Minneapolis, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Atlanta.

Scott Mutter

His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco International Airport and at the opening of the Beam Performing Arts Center in Tokyo.

USAT General Frank M. Coxe

For the 16 years up until 2006, the General Frank M. Coxe was a vacant hulk, until local restaurateurs bought the ship from Mr. Robert Sherman, who had preserved the General Frank M. Coxe on an unused canal in Burlingame, California, just south of San Francisco International Airport.


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Roland De Wolk

In July 2013, De Wolk was employed as a producer with KTVU-TV, when the station's news team broadcast false and racially insensitive names of pilots involved in the July 2013 Asiana airplane crash at San Francisco International Airport.