SFO Helicopter Airlines started flying on 1 June 1961 between SFO and OAK airports, San Francisco Downtown Heliport at the Ferry Building, and Oakland Downtown Heliport on 10th Street near Lake Merritt. The Oakland heliport moved to the roof of the Alcopark garage in 1965. Photo from: Vertical Flight Society

'The short and the long of modern air transportation are seen in this photograph taken at the Pan American hangar at San Francisco International Airport. Maintenance work goes forward on Sikorsky S-62 turbocopter in foreground, which makes short-haul flights for the San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines. In the background is one of the long-haul DC-8 jets flown by Pan American. The helicopter airline leases a portion of the hangar from Pan American.' The DC-8 is N801PA Jet Clipper Queen of the Pacific. Photo from: Vertical Flight Society

The San Francisco Downtown Heliport sat on a pier next to the Ferry Building. In 1968 SFO Helicopter Airlines ran 14 flights here each weekday, but the heliport closed in 1969. Photo by: Marshall Moxom / SFO Museum

SFO Helicopter Airlines started flying on 1 June 1961 using a couple of ten-passenger S-62s. The S-62 was turbine-powered but only had a single engine and N323Y was damaged in autorotative landings twice, in 1963 and 1965. To Carson Helicopters in 1970. Broken up. Photo from: Vertical Flight Society

One of the locations used by San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines was the heliport on the roof of the Alameda County Parking Garage in central Oakland. Operations here seem to have started on 1 March 1965. N94569 served the company from 29 January 1965 until January 1970.

Landing at Lafayette, California with the SFO "terminal" on the left. The pad was alongside Highway 24 on the West end of town. This photo is looking SE from that location.