Transcontinental Air Transport
Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by
History
On July 7, 1929, transcontinental trips began. It initially offered a 48-hour coast to coast trip (trains by night, and planes by day in nine flights), with the first leg on the
Cynics were to deride its TAT abbreviation as "Take A Train."
The Ford Trimotor service was one of the first to offer meals en route, provided by the Fred Harvey Company.[3] It was also one of the first to be geared toward passenger service (while most airlines at the time were focused on transporting air mail).
In its first eighteen months of operation, the company lost $2.7 million ($49.2 million in 2023).
First air crash
On September 3, 1929, a westbound TAT flight crashed on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico, with loss of all aboard. The Associated Press said it was the first plane crash on a regular commercial land route. The September crash was the first of three serious accidents for TAT over the next five months.[5]
Museum
The
See also
References
- ISBN 9780967951997.
- ^ Bunyan, Fred (January 1959). "Columbus Prepared for Progress". Flying Magazine - Google Books. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "TAT Timetable, July 1929". Airline Timetable Images. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Transcontinental Air Transport". Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "TAT Crash, 1929, New Mexico Office of the State Historian". Retrieved 2014-11-02.
External links
Articles
- American Heritage article
- PBS Chasing Sun profile
- Planes, Trains and a Downtown Auto Dealer by Jay Berman. Los Angeles Downtown News April 22, 2013
- Biography of Clement Melville Keys Archived 2007-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Alphabetilately profile
Graphics
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa promotional brochure for Transcontinental Air Transport.
- PRR Commemorative Brass Presentation Paperweight for the opening of The First "Rail-Air" Transcontinental Passenger Service via the Pennsylvania Railroad, Transcontinental Air Transport, & Santa Fe Railroad. July 7, 1929
- Poster for the train-plane
- Timetables