St. Tammany-Gulf Coast Airways  Fokker Super Universal   NC8030            (c/n  816)

                                

                                    St. Tammany-Gulf Coast Airways was founded in 1927 with passenger services from New
                                    Orleans to Atlanta with stops at Mobile and Birmingham.  Four new Fokker Super Universals
                                    were employed .  The above shot is from the Peter M. Bowers collection.   The airline was
                                    renamed Gulf Air Lines in 1928 and merged with Texas Air Transport in 1929 to form the
                                    Southern Air Transport System, one of whose officers was C.R. Smith, founder of American
                                    Airways.  In the event Southern became part of the vast AVCO empire and the amalgamated
                                   airlines  became American Airways in 1930.