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B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUMA 501(c)(3) Non-profit Corporation |
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Carter-Burgess headquarters at 7th and Main Street is an historic Fort Worth
aviation landmark.
In 1927, Alva Pearl Barrett, Amon G. Carter, Evans Silliman, Thomas O. Hardin, Cyrus R. Smith, R. C. Bowen and his brother Temple Bowen organized Texas Air Transport (TAT) at Fort Worth Municipal Airport (now Meacham International Airport) as a subsidiary of Alva Pearl Barrett's Texas & Louisiana Power Company. TAT, and Barrett's other aviation companies, soon needed more land than was available at the City Airport. On 23 August 1929, Barrett announced he would build his own airport and establish a headquarters building for TAT operations in downtown Fort Worth.
"The Aviation Building", a 12-story building of very modern design, was built on the northeast corner of 7th and Main for Barrett's headquarters. Later, after TAT had merged with several other companies that became American Airways, and later American Airlines, the building was renamed the Commercial Standard Building, then Trinity Life Building, then Life of America Building and later the Trans-American Building. Even though Barrett bought a Rivercrest estate from W.T. Waggoner that was large enough for a small airport, Barrett's new airport was never built. Amon G. Carter later built the Greater Fort Worth International Airport - Amon Carter Field which caused Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to be built.