Texas Air Transport Fokker
Super Universal
C8033
(c/n 820)
Texas Air Transport was founded by Temple Bowen (later to form Bowen
Air Lines) in 1927
to provide air mail service (CAM21) from Dallas to Bownsville and
Galveston using a fleet of
seven Pitcairn Mailwings. When passenger services were added in
1928 several other types
were added to the fleet. One of these is the Fokker Super
Universal seen above. C8033 was
originally built for
St. Tammany-Gulf Coast Airways. Later Texas AT and this airline
merged to
form Southern Air Transport. (The Super Universal went on to
become part of American Air-
ways Fleet).