US Navy warship
Men watching four-stack Navy cruiser at anchor. Seaplane on right, Angel Island in background [Burton Photo Album]
SF BayAviation
Contains 9 photos
Sunset District
Goodyear Blimp over landscape of scattered houses, power poles, sand dunes, and scrub.
Millbrae, CA
Men standing underneath a steam-engine-powered airship balloon built by newspaper editor Frederick H. Marriott. The 'Avitor Hermes, Jr.' was 37 feet long and tested on a tether at Marriott's Avitor Works adjacent to Shell Mound Lake. [318. The Aerial Steam Navigation Co.'s Steamer Avitor]
Outside SF
Dirigible U.S.S. Macon
View southeast from rooftop toward Matson and PG&E buildings, to US Navy airship U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5). The ship was commissioned in June, 1933 and arrived at Naval Air Station Sunnyvale (now Moffett Field) in October, 1933. It was destroyed in a crash off Point Sur, California in February, 1935. flying over downtown.
Financial District
Montgomery near Bush
US Navy airship U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5) over Russ Building. The ship was commissioned in June, 1933 and arrived at Moffett Field in October, 1933. It was destroyed in a crash off Point Sur, California in February, 1935.
Financial District
Crissy Field
[(B.W.)Maynards DeHaviland Plane - Winner, (Trans) Continental Race - N.Y. to S.F. and return] Biplane with Hello Frisco written on side. Lt. Belvin W. Maynard ("The Flying Parson" 1892-1922) won the race in October, 1919. Race terminated at Presidio of San Francisco on site of future Crissy Field
Presidio
Marina District
[(Chri)stoffersen with flying boat. (A)ir grounds...(ch) for carrying passengers 1913] Double exposure of early airplane over mudflats. Aviator Silas Christofferson (1890-1916).
Marina
Coit Tower
View of Goodyear blimp passing tower on Telegraph Hill
Telegraph Hill
San Francisco Airport
Elevated view north over Mills Field parking lot to parked planes, Sign Hill and San Bruno Mountain. At right, grandstands and folding chairs set up on field. San Bruno Mountain in the background. [North Area of field viewed from ridge of Hanger No.1 during Army War Maneuvers] [A2536] Same image as wnp36.04501. (inscribed date is wrong, the event was April 19, 1930)
Outside SF