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The first airline flights were operated by Pioneer Air Lines with twin engine Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft in 1947. Pioneer was then acquired by and merged into Continental Airlines which in 1955 was operating daily DC-3 service with a multi-stop routing of Midland, TX/Odessa, TX – Big Spring, TX – Snyder, TX – Abilene, TX – Breckenridge, TX – Fort Worth – Dallas Love Field – Waco ...
It has seen several airlines; from the 1930s until 1953-54 Braniff flew to Houston International (later named William P. Hobby Airport). Trans-Texas Airways "TTa", the forerunner to Texas International Airlines, arrived in the 1950s; until 1972 TTa Convair 600s flew nonstop to both Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur and direct to Dallas and Austin.
Central Airlines was a local service carrier, a scheduled passenger airline operating in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1949 to 1967. It was founded by Keith Kahle in 1944 to operate charter and fixed base services in Oklahoma, but was not granted an air operator's certificate until 1946 and did not begin ...
Several commuter airlines operated scheduled passenger service into Sugar Land Regional over the years. In the fall of 1979, Commutair was flying a "cross-town" shuttle service between the airport and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH), with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter twin turboprop aircraft operating up to twelve round-trip flights a day.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
Trans-Texas Airways changed its name to Texas International Airlines in 1969. Texas International (TI) operated the first jets to San Angelo and in 1970 its Douglas DC-9-10s flew nonstop to Austin, Abilene and Midland/Odessa and direct to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Houston Intercontinental Airport, San Antonio and El Paso. [14]
This list of airports in Texas (a U.S. state) is grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
North Texas Regional Airport / Perrin Field [2] (IATA: PNX, ICAO: KGYI, FAA LID: GYI) is a county-owned airport in Grayson County, Texas between Sherman and Denison. [1] Formerly Grayson County Airport, the airport was renamed in November 2007. [2] Several buildings are occupied by businesses, Grayson County government agencies, and Grayson ...