Transcontinental Air Transport — Barstow, Calif.

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Transcontinental Air Transport — Barstow, Calif.
Transcontinental Air Transport — Barstow, Calif.

sort of repeating the description from an older image of this site.

back in 1929 barstow had its own transcontinental airport; complete with a luxurious lobby, a hanger for the Ford trimotor airplanes and a ticket office building.

just off Route 66, these historic Transcontinental Air Transport buildings languish in obscurity in the empty desert outside of town.

T.A.T. "represented a new way of thinking about aviation. Unlike airmail carriers, T.A.T. was to be an airline for passengers: It would carry them in luxury and comfort and its revenue would come solely from their fares, not from the lucrative government contracts that supported airmail.

[charles lindbergh opened the airline] at the push of a button on July 7, 1929 ... to national acclaim.

The Los Angeles Times hailed the airline with the headline 'Chapter Added to Aviation History.'

But a year later, T.A.T. was gone. Without the subsidy of airmail contracts, the airline lost money on every flight."

The buildings in Barstow morphed into an ignominious poultry farm.

Few remember the grand passenger airline.

from "Two Days By Plane": America's First
Transcontinental Passenger Airline and the Selling of the Skies by Sean Fraga, Yale University

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