Texas International was a Houston-based airline that was established in 1947 at Trans-Texas Airways (TTA). They served plenty of locations across Texas and even small towns like Brownwood, Palestine, Uvalde and Pecos had TTA service. They even flew to Marfa and Alpine! Trans-Texas got their first jet aircraft, the Douglas DC-9 Series 14, in 1966 with the delivery of the first jets. In fact, the very first DC-9 flown by Trans-Texas was N1301T “Ship One”, the former DC-9 prototype, which was the subject of a previous print I did. In 1969, they inaugurated services to Mexico City and Monterrey and in April of that year changed their name from Trans-Texas Airways to Texas International Airlines. One of the derisive names competitors called Trans-Texas (TTA) was "Tree-Top Airways" or Tinker-Toy Airways" referring to the older DC-3 fleet and the many small towns in Texas like Brownwood, Pecos, Uvalde and Palestine that TTA once served. When the name changed to Texas International in 1969, the airline ran ads in the major Texas newspapers with a Tinkertoy airplane flying above some trees and the tag line "No More Tinker Toys. No More Tree Tops. We Are Now Texas International Airlines”. This print depicts their second livery and is the last jet livery of the airline. The two profiles in the print are both of N1301T, the former “Ship One” with the top aircraft showing the purple-gray TTA livery as it debuted and the lower aircraft showing the same aircraft in the later modified livery when TTA rebranded as Texas International in 1969. Size is 16x20 inches and printed on metallic gloss finish heavy weight photographic paper. Cost is $40, shipping and handling for US domestic addresses is free. Contact me at [email protected] to get yours on its way to you. #avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #TheChickenWorks (follow this tag to see more of my artwork) #Douglas #McDonnellDouglas #DC9 #TransTexas #TexasInternational #N1301T #Avgeekery #illustrator #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge
