Texas International
Airlines Beech 99 Commuter N1922T (c/n
U-104)
In 1970 Texas International purchased five Beech 99s
to serve the smller lower Rio Grande area,
since cost effective
service to these small communities was impossible using the
Convairs. They
operated the Beechs
for seven or eight years. Bob Garrard shot this one at
George Bush Inter-
continental
Airport at Houston (IAH) in July of 1970, just after the aircraft had
been re-registered
from N4155A.
A s,mall fleet of beech 99s wsas acqui8red in 1977 to serve them
samller cities niot proficitable ewith either CoNvair 600 s aor FC-9s.