This film features raw footage of aircraft taking off from San Francisco International Airport circa the 1970s. The airlines shown include TWA, Delta, American Airlines, Air California (2:00 / 11:27), PSA (10:39) and Air West (6:50 / 7:10) and aircraft types shown include the Boeing 707, Boeing 727 and Fairchild F-27A . At (3:09) a SFO Sikorsky S-61 helicopter is shown. This belonged to San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines (also known as SFO Helicopter Airlines and SFO Helicopter) which offered scheduled passenger flights between San Francisco, Oakland, and other Bay Area cities from 1961 into the 1980s. The film also includes footage shot inside the terminal (4:48) of passengers in waiting areas, and the parking lot (5:37) as well as tarmac areas.

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