Southern Air Transport  Travel Air 6000-B  C8880                            (c/n  993)

                             

                               Southern Air Transport was formed in 1929 by the merger of Gulf Air Lines and Texas Air
                               Transport.  Its CEO was A.P. Barrett, a Tennessee businessman.   Vice President and Treasurer
                               was C.R. Smith, later to became President of American Airways      Southern became part
                               (January 1930) of the vast AVCO empire,  forerunner of American Airlines.  The arrangement
                               ran as a "system" whereby Texas Air Transport and Gulf still flew under their own names.  The
                               above shot, of a Travel Air over the Texas farmlands in 1929 (gleaned from American in the
                              1940s), indicates that at one stage the SAT titling was shown.