Overview
Texas. Dept. of Aviation.
Case files
1963-1989
(bulk 1967-1978)
The records of the
Texas Department of Aviation consist largely of legal documents--applications
for certificates, testimonies, prehearing and hearing transcripts, exhibits,
orders, motions, dockets, briefs, appeals, and other documents dating from 1963
to 1989 (bulk 1967-1978). The records are case files of hearings before the
Texas Aeronautics Commission (predecessor agency to the Department of Aviation)
and the Civil Aeronautics Board. Hearings are held when airlines apply for
certificates of convenience and public necessity to begin service, to fly into
new localities, or to make changes in their existing routes. Also present are
reports, correspondence, financial statements, clippings, press releases, and
consumer complaints.
18 cubic
ft.
English.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Case files, Texas Department of Aviation.
Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives
Commission.
Agency History
The Texas Aeronautics Commission (TAC) was created in 1945 by House
Bill 309, 49th Legislature. The Commission was composed of three members (later
expanded to six members) appointed by the Governor, with Senate confirmation,
to six-year overlapping terms. Qualifications for members were ten years
continuous residence in the state and ten years successful experience in
business, government, or professional activities. A chair was elected by the
Commission and an Executive Director was appointed to handle the administrative
affairs of the Commission. In 1989, the Commission became the Texas Department
of Aviation (House Bill 94, 71st Legislature, 1st Called Session). The
governing body of the Department is now the Board of Aviation, of the same
makeup as the previous Commission, with one qualification added--members must
now have five years experience as either an aircraft pilot, an airport
facilities manager, or a fixed-base operator. The Executive Director functions
as the Executive Officer of the Department.
The Department of Aviation (like the former TAC) assisted in the
development of aeronautics in the state and cooperated with the federal
government and other states in establishing a uniform aviation system. Some
specific responsibilities were to assist communities and state agencies in the
establishment, construction, improvement, and financing of airports and other
air navigation facilities; to administer and conduct clinics and courses for
general aviation pilots; to certify intrastate airlines and oversee the
intrastate air transportation network; to hold investigations, inquiries, and
hearings to ensure aviation rules and regulations are met; and to represent
state aviation segments before the Civil Aeronautics Board and other such
policy-making groups.
In 1991, the Department of Aviation was merged with the State
Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Motor Vehicle
Commission to form the Texas Department of Transportation. The Department of
Aviation's functions are now carried out by the Department of Transportation's
Aviation Division.
Scope and Contents of the Records
The records of the Texas Department of Aviation consist largely of
legal documents--applications for certificates, testimonies, prehearing and
hearing transcripts, exhibits, orders, motions, dockets, briefs, appeals, and
other documents dating from 1963 to 1989 (bulk 1967-1978). The records are case
files of hearings before the Texas Aeronautics Commission (predecessor agency
to the Department of Aviation) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Hearings
are held when airlines apply for certificates of convenience and public
necessity to begin service, to fly into new localities, or to make changes in
their existing routes. Also present are reports, correspondence, financial
statements, clippings, press releases, and consumer complaints. Cases include
Southwest Airlines (formerly Air Southwest) initial application for
certification; its application for a certificate to fly out of Love Field in
Dallas instead of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport in the late 1960s, its
application to provide service to the Rio Grande Valley in the early to mid
1970s, and its application to add various cities to its schedules in the mid to
late 1970s. These application hearings generated a series of protests, appeals,
and suits filed by opposing parties.
Additional materials include the application of Muse Air and America
West Airlines before the CAB for certificates to fly interstate routes,
including cities in Texas; files concerning an interstate and intrastate fare
investigation held in the District of Columbia Circuit of the Court of Appeals;
publications concerning deregulation; and hearings before the Civil Aeronautics
Board on low-fare route proceedings concerning Midway Airlines (including
Midway Southwest Airlines) offering service out of Midway Airport in Chicago.
The TAC was interested in this last case because of the relationship between
Southwest Airlines and its subsidiary, Midway Southwest, and the question of
whether the two airlines could operate as both intrastate and interstate
carriers.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily
reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to
provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
Arrangement of the Records
Materials are arranged by case, with non-case record materials filed
at the end.
Index Terms
The terms listed here were used to catalog the
records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Corporate Names:
Southwest Airlines Co.
Texas International
Airlines.
Braniff Airways.
Texas Aeronautics
Commission.
Subjects:
Airlines--Certification--Texas.
Document Types:
Case
files--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Reports--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Correspondence--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Financial
statements--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Clippings--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Press
releases--Texas--Airlines--1963-1989.
Functions:
Certifying airlines.
Related Material
The following materials are offered as
possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by
the records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Texas State
Archives
Texas Board of Aviation, Minutes, 1989-1991. [These records
are unaccessioned and in process.]
Texas Aeronautics Commission, Minutes, September
1971-October 1988. [There is no finding aid for these unprocessed records. The
call numbers are 1998/057-1 and 2.]
Texas Aeronautics Commission, Orders, 1982-1987, 0.47 cubic
ft.
Texas Transportation Commission, Minutes, July 1999-July
2000. [There is no finding aid for these unprocessed records. The call numbers
are 2000/038 and 2001/015.]
Texas Transportation Commission, Minutes, 2001-2003. [These
records are unaccessioned and in process.]
Texas High Speed Rail Authority, Southwest Airlines
litigation files, [ca. 1990]-1994 (bulk 1991), 5.93 cubic ft.
Processing Information
Laura K. Saegert, May 1990
Accession Information
Accession number: 1990/023
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information
Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the
Texas Department of Aviation on November 2, 1989.
Detailed Description of the Records
Case files,
1963-1989
(bulk 1967-1978),
18 cubic ft.
Docket 30277 -- Midway Airlines,
1977-1978
1990/023-1
1.
Chicago-Midway Low-Fare Route Proceeding, Docket
30277, Exhibits of Midway Airlines
[unfoldered]
1990/023-1
2.
Midway Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-1
3.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports
Commission
1990/023-1
4.
NASAO (National Association of State Aviation
Officials)
1990/023-1
5.
Continental Airlines
1990/023-1
6.
Department of Justice
1990/023-1
7.
Department of Transportation
1990/023-1
8.
Indianapolis Airport Authority
1990/023-1
9.
Cleveland, Ohio (City of)
1990/023-1
10.
CAB/ALJ (Civil Aeronautics Board)
1990/023-1
11.
Air Line Pilots Association
1990/023-1
12.
CAB: Air Florida, Inc.
1990/023-1
13.
CAB: Air Wisconsin, Inc.
1990/023-1
14.
American Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-1
15.
Braniff Airways, Inc.
1990/023-1
16.
BOR (Bureau of Operating Rights)
1990/023-1
17.
City of Chicago, Illinois
1990/023-1
18.
Illinois Department of Transportation
1990/023-1
19.
Iowa Department of Transportation
1990/023-1
20.
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce (Kansas City,
Missouri)
1990/023-1
21.
Louisville and Jefferson County Air Board, Louisville,
Kentucky
1990/023-1
22.
Southern Airways, Inc.
1990/023-1
23.
North Central Airlines [Exhibits]
[unfoldered]
1990/023-1
24.
North Central Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-1
25.
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-1
26.
Trans World Airways, Inc.
1990/023-2
1.
CAB: The Pittsburg Parties
1990/023-2
2.
Northwest Orient
1990/023-2
3.
The St. Louis Parties
1990/023-2
4.
Wright Air Lines, Inc.
1990/023-2
5.
United Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-2
6.
Texas International Airlines, Inc.
1990/023-2
7.
TAC (Texas Aeronautics Commission)
1990/023-2
8.
Brief of Midway Airlines, Inc. to Civil Aeronautics
Board
[unfoldered]
1990/023-2
9.
Midway (Southwest) Airway Co., Chicago Midway Low-
Fare Route Proceeding, Direct Exhibits and Testimony, volumes I and II
[unfoldered]
1990/023-2
10.
CAB: Allegheny Airlines
1990/023-2
11.
CAB: Application of Midway (Southwest) Airway
Company
Interstate and Intrastate Fare
Investigation,
1976-1978
1990/023-2
12.
Supreme Court
1990/023-2
13.
[unfoldered briefs and court proceedings]
1990/023-2
14.
California PUC (Public Utilities Commission) v. CAB
(Inter/Intra)
1990/023-2
15.
NARUC (National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners) v. CAB (Inter/Intra)
1990/023-2
16.
Inter/Intra Briefs of Parties, D.C.
Circuit
1990/023-3
1.
Interstate and Intrastate Fare
Investigation
1990/023-3
2.
TAC v. CAB (Intra/Inter) D.C. Circuit
Deregulation reports and
papers,
1975
1990/023-3
3.
Consequences of Deregulation of the Scheduled Air
Transport Industry,
April 1975
[unfoldered]
1990/023-3
4.
Aviation Act of 1975
1990/023-3
5.
Kennedy Committee--Speeches/Testimony,
1975
1990/023-3
6.
CAB Deregulation Experiment,
1975
Docket 76-10 - Southwest's
Application to add cities to its existing schedule,
1976
1990/023-3
7.
Transcript of Proceedings, Prehearing
Conference
1990/023-3
8.
Transcript of Proceedings, Master Index
1990/023-3
9-14.
Transcript of Proceedings, Hearing on Application,
volumes I - VI
1990/023-4
1-6.
Transcript of Proceedings, Hearing on Application,
volumes VII - XI
1990/023-4
7.
Transcript of Proceedings, Oral Arguments
1990/023-4
8.
Transcript of Proceedings, Exhibits, volumes I -III
1990/023-4
9.
Brief of Southwest Airlines, two copies
[unfoldered]
1990/023-4
10.
[Legal pad of notes]
[unfoldered]
1990/023-4
11.
Southwest Newsclipping File
1990/023-5
1.
Southwest Airlines, Co., Public Response
1990/023-5
2.
Southwest Newsclipping File,
July 1976
1990/023-5
3.
Southwest Newsclipping File, April -
June, 1976
1990/023-5
4.
Application for Authority to Serve Austin, Corpus
Christi, El Paso, Lubbock & Midland/Odessa, Direct Exhibits and Testimony
of M. Lamar Muse and L. John Eichner,
2 copies [unfoldered]
1990/023-5
5.
Southwest Exhibits
1990/023-5
6.
TXIA (Texas International Airlines)
Exhibits
1990/023-5
7.
City of Fort Worth, working papers
[unfoldered]
1990/023-5
8.
Fort Worth Exhibits
1990/023-6
1.
Braniff Exhibits
1990/023-6
2.
Information Responses
1990/023-6
3.
Indices
1990/023-6
4.
Correspondence,
July 26-30, 1976
1990/023-6
5.
Correspondence - public response,
May - July, 1976
1990/023-6
6.
Southwest Airlines Company
1990/023-6
7.
Southwest 76-10 Litigation
1990/023-6
8.
Certificate #44 - Final Order Proposal for
Decision
Docket 257,067
1990/023-6
9.
Fort Worth v. TAC, 200th District Court, Travis
County
Cause 229,971 - Texas International
v. TAC, re: Southwest's 1973 Application to fly into the Rio Grande Valley,
1975-76
1990/023-6
10.
Texas International - Trial Briefs
1990/023-6
11.
Southwest Airlines' Exhibits
1990/023-6
12.
Transcript, Hearing on Temporary Restraining
Order
1990/023-6
13-14.
Deposition of Joan Holloway
1990/023-6
15-16.
Deposition of Charles Murphy
Transcript of Testimony:
1990/023-6
17.
August 14, 1975
1990/023-7
1-3.
August 15, 1975
1990/023-7
4.
August 20, 1975
1990/023-7
5.
August 21, 1975
1990/023-7
6.
August 22, 1975
1990/023-7
7.
August 28, 1975
1990/023-7
8.
September 2, 1975
1990/023-7
9.
September 3, 1975
1990/023-7
10.
September 4, 1975
1990/023-7
11.
September 5, 1975
1990/023-7
12.
September 8, 1975
1990/023-7
13.
September 9, 1975
1990/023-7
14.
September 10, 1975
1990/023-7
15.
September 11, 1975
1990/023-7
16.
September 12, 1975
1990/023-7
17.
September 15, 1975
1990/023-7
18.
September 16, 1975
1990/023-7
19.
September 17, 1975
1990/023-8
1.
September 18, 1975
1990/023-8
2.
September 19, 1975
1990/023-8
3.
September 30, 1975
1990/023-8
4.
October 1, 1975
1990/023-8
5.
October 2, 1975
1990/023-8
6.
October 3, 1975
1990/023-8
7.
October 6, 1975
1990/023-8
8.
October 7, 1975
1990/023-8
9.
October 8, 1975
1990/023-8
10.
October 9, 1975
1990/023-8
11.
October 10, 1975
1990/023-8
12.
October 13, 1975
1990/023-8
13.
October 14, 1975
1990/023-8
14.
October 15, 1975
1990/023-8
15.
October 16, 1975
1990/023-8
16.
October 17, 1975
1990/023-8
17.
October 20, 1975
1990/023-8
18.
October 22, 1975
1990/023-9
1.
October 23, 1975
1990/023-9
2.
October 24, 1975
1990/023-9
3.
October 27, 1975
1990/023-9
4.
October 28, 1975
1990/023-9
5.
October 29, 1975
1990/023-9
6.
October 30, 1975
1990/023-9
7.
January 26, 1976
1990/023-9
8.
January 27, 1976
1990/023-9
9.
January 28, 1976
1990/023-9
10.
January 29, 1976
1990/023-9
11.
January 30, 1976
1990/023-9
12.
Final Order - Judge Meyer
1990/023-9
13.
Southwest Airlines' Exhibits
1990/023-9
14.
[loose cards giving addresses and affiliation of
those testifying, and cards used in preparing an index to the
testimony--
unfoldered]
1990/023-10
1.
Texas International's Exhibits [abbreviations used for
this company were TXIA and TIA]
1990/023-10
2.
TXIA v. TAC, exhibit indices
1990/023-10
3.
TXIA v. TAC (Harlingen) Briefs
1990/023-10
4.
TIA v. TAC (Harlingen)
Cause 263,654 - Texas International
v. TAC, re: Southwest's 1973 Application to fly into the Rio Grande Valley
1977
1990/023-10
5.
Hearing Record
CAB Docket 28068 - Service to
Harlingen, re: Southwest's 1973 Application to fly into the Rio Grande Valley,
1975-77
1990/023-10
6.
Bureau of Operating Rights
1990/023-10
7.
Statistics
1990/023-10
8.
Texas Aeronautics Commission
1990/023-10
9.
CAB orders
1990/023-10
10.
Southwest Airlines
1990/023-10
11.
Texas International Airlines
1990/023-11
1-2.
City of Harlingen
1990/023-11
3.
Southwest Airlines Historical Data
1990/023-11
Wild Goose Flying Service (bought out by Southwest--
these files may have been used in the Valley application hearings):
1990/023-11
4.
Financial Statements and Activity Reports,
1965-67
1990/023-11
5.
Application,
11/63 and 7/64
1990/023-11
6.
Hearing,
1/64
1990/023-11
7.
Financial Statements,
1963-65
1990/023-11
8.
Certificates,
1965-1967
1990/023-11
9.
Correspondence,
1964-67
1990/023-11
10.
Correspondence,
1963-65
1990/023-11
11.
Hearings,
1964-65
1990/023-11
12.
Application,
1963-64
1990/023-11
13.
Application,
1965
[unfoldered]
Southwest Valley Application,
1973-1975
1990/023-11
14.
Exceptions to Findings
1990/023-11
15.
Texas International's Questions for Appeal to
Commission
1990/023-11
16.
Request for Oral Argument, Southwest
Airlines
1990/023-11
17.
Transcript of Proceeding, Oral Argument
[unfoldered]
1990/023-11
18.
Original Orders & Certificate 35, Southwest
Airlines/Houston, Dallas, Harlingen
1990/023-11
19.
Harlingen Due Process Trial Brief
1990/023-11
20.
Reply, Exception, Affidavit
1990/023-11
21.
Various Court Opinions and CAB (Civil Aeronautics
Board) Orders
1990/023-11
22.
Chronology Subsequent to Hearing
1990/023-11
23.
Regulatory Reform, Civil
Aeronautics Board,
1975
1990/023-11
24.
Hearings Before the
Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the
Judiciary, U.S. Senate, vol. 2,
1975
1990/023-12
1.
TXIA Exhibits
1990/023-12
2.
Proposed Findings
1990/023-12
3.
CAB Docket 27348, TXIA Application for Suspension at
Harlingen
1990/023-12
4.
Briefs
1990/023-12
5.
Examiner's Report
1990/023-12
6.
Transcript - Prehearing Conference
1990/023-12
7.
Prehearing Conference Order
1990/023-12
8.
Transcript, TXI Appeal from Ruling of Prehearing
Conference Order
1990/023-12
9.
Prehearing Information Requests [unfoldered,
bound]
1990/023-12
10.
Clipping File
1990/023-12
11.
Harlingen Case Newsclippings
1990/023-12
12-18.
Transcript of Proceedings, volumes 1-7
1990/023-13
1.
Transcript of proceedings, volume 8
1990/023-13
2.
Exhibit volume for volumes 1-7
1990/023-13
3-9.
Transcript of proceedings, volumes 9-15
1990/023-13
10.
Exhibits volume for volume 15
1990/023-13
11-12.
Transcript of proceedings, volumes 16-17
1990/023-13
13.
Exhibits volume for volume 17
1990/023-13
14-16.
Transcript of proceedings, volumes 18-20
1990/023-13
17-18.
Exhibit volumes for volumes 19-20
1990/023-14
1-2.
Exhibit volumes for volumes 16 and 18
1990/023-14
3-6.
Transcript of proceedings, volumes 21-24
1990/023-14
7-9.
Exhibit volumes for volumes 22-24
1990/023-14
10.
Transcript of proceedings, Prehearing Conference
1990/023-14
11.
McAllen Exhibits
1990/023-14
12.
Hearing File
1990/023-14
13.
TXI Contact with Legislature
1990/023-14
14.
Rio Grande Valley Supporting Data
1990/023-14
15.
Rio Grande Valley Application
1990/023-14
16.
Texas International Petition for Writ of Mandamus
1990/023-15
1.
Prehearing Conference
1990/023-15
2-3.
Application of Southwest Airlines for Service to Rio
Grande Valley
1990/023-15
4.
Index to Hearing, and Chronology
1990/023-15
5.
Motion for Discovery of Documentary
Evidence
Southwest Airlines (formerly Air
Southwest) Initial Application for Certification,
1967-69
1990/023-15
6.
Trans-Texas Exhibits
1990/023-15
7.
Trans-Texas Brief
1990/023-15
8.
Continental Brief and Exhibits
1990/023-15
9.
Braniff Exhibits
1990/023-15
10.
Braniff Brief
1990/023-15
11.
Airline Pilots Association, Statement in
Opposition
1990/023-15
12.
Air Southwest Company, Certificate
1990/023-15
13.
Southwest Exhibits
1990/023-15
14.
Air Southwest Inc., Application
1990/023-15
15-19.
Transcript of Hearing on Application for Certificate,
volumes 1-5
1990/023-15
20.
Application and Brief - Southwest
1990/023-15
21.
Application - Southwest, 11/29/67
1990/023-16
1.
Southwest Correspondence,
1968-69
1990/023-16
2.
Public Reaction and Press Clippings
Braniff and Texas International
Airlines v. TAC, re: disapproval over Southwest's certification and rates
1970-71
1990/023-16
3.
Braniff's Motion to Reopen Proceedings before
TAC
1990/023-16
4.
98th District Court #164,386
1990/023-16
5.
Complaint of TXI and BI before CAB, #23047 &
#23122
1990/023-16
6.
Texas Court of Civil Appeal #11,655
1990/023-16
7.
Supreme Court of Texas, B-1552
1990/023-16
8.
Supreme Court of the United States, #693
1990/023-16
9.
Texas International v. CAB
City of Dallas v. Southwest (Love
Field Case),
1970-77 (press clippings through
1989)
1990/023-16
10.
Miscellaneous Materials, Love Field
1990/023-16
11.
U.S. District Court (North District, Texas) (Briefs,
Judge Taylor's Opinion)
1990/023-16
12.
City of Braniff, et al. & other miscellaneous
Love Field Litigation
1990/023-16
13.
U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit (Parties
Briefs)
1990/023-16
14.
Public Response - Love Field Lawsuit
1990/023-16
15.
Southwest Airlines v. City of Dallas, permanent
injunction
1990/023-16
16.
TI v. D/FW et al, Travis Co., 200th Judicial District
Court, #227,349
1990/023-16
17.
Love Field File - Misc.,
1973
1990/023-16
18.
Supreme Court of the United States, Brief of
Respondent, #76-1773
1990/023-17
1.
Texas International, Airport Notice File (Love
Field)
1990/023-17
2.
Love Field - Dallas/Fort Worth Application
Amendments
1990/023-17
3-6.
Press Reaction, Love Field Lawsuits,
1972-89
Docket 78-7 - Southwest's
Application to Add Service to Amarillo-Beaumont/Port Arthur,
1978
1990/023-17
7.
Prehearing Conference
1990/023-17
8.
Prehearing Conference Report,
June 12, 1978
1990/023-17
9.
Southwest Airlines, Docket 78-7, Service to
Amarillo-Beaumont/Port Arthur [application, transcripts, exhibits]
1990/023-18
1.
Southwest Airlines - Docket 78-7, misc.
materials
Miscellaneous Dockets
1990/023-18
2.
Commission Certified Carriers, Docket 80-6, Emergency
Authority re: SW Points
1990/023-18
3.
CAB Docket 38948 - Muse Air application interstate
application,
1980
1990/023-18
4.
CAB Docket 40113 - America West interstate
application,
1981
1990/023-18
5.
CAB: Guaranteed Loan Program (Docket 27436)
1977
Southwest Airlines General Files
1990/023-18
6.
Insurance/Equipment,
1981-88
1990/023-18
7.
Schedules,
1984-88
1990/023-18
8.
Quarterly Reports,
1984-88
1990/023-18
9.
Press Release and Public Relations,
1985-89
1990/023-18
10.
Consumer Complaints,
1979-85
1990/023-18
11.
FAA File,
1978
1990/023-18
12.
Various CAB orders,
1979-80
1990/023-18
13.
Financial Statements,
1972-1984
1990/023-18
14.
CAB Current Tariff Statements,
1980-1985
1990/023-18
15.
Southwest's Tariff's,
1977-1978