FTW Fort Worth Meacham - American Airways Hangar and Administration Building
Built in 1933 in art-deco style, designed by Chicago based architect Abraham Epstein, was utilized by American Airways/American Airlines until the early 1950’s. The building fell into disrepair but was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 and underwent a substantial refit between 2013 to 2015 to bring it up to operational standards for a private jet charter company based at the airfield.
American Airways became American Airlines in 1934, one year after the opening of this building, but the old name was retained in the stone work.
Fort Worth Airport (FTW) was established in 1914 as a base for United States Army Airways. In 1927 the name was changed to Meacham Field celebrating a former mayor Henry C. Meacham. A terminal building was completed in 1937 and in the early 1950s Meacham was served by American Airlines (AA), Braniff Airways (BN) and Delta Air Lines (DL). By 1953 commercial traffic ceased at FTW. This was the result of competition from nearby Dallas Love Field (DAL) and the decision by Fort Worth authorities to develop a modern airport on the site of Amon Carter Field (ACF) between Fort Worth and Dallas, named Greater Southwest International Airport (GSW). However, this venture failed to compete effectively with Love Field and eventually, due to insufficient capacity at Love, the Dallas and Fort Worth municipalities agreed to jointly construct a new airport (today’s Dallas Fort Worth DFW) which opened in 1974. DFW is situated slightly North of GSW, and encompasses the GSW site in the huge airfield footprint at DFW.
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