Airports in the Oil Patch Are Booming -- Carpe Diem

Link here.

The article also mentions Stinson Municipal airport. This airport has a fascinating history.

Historical data points (see link) regarding Stinson Municipal Airport on south side of San Antonio, or rather the founder of the airport:

• Katherine Stinson, born 12 years before Wright brothers made historic first flight
• wanted to become a piano teacher; needed money to study in Europe
• took up stunt flying to earn money
• learned to fly in four hours
• learned stunt flying under Max Lillie of Chicago
• fourth American woman to earn a pilot's license (1912)
• ;gave up plans to teach music; barnstormed across the country
• mother and Katherine found Stinson Aviation Company in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1913
• move to San Antonio, 1913
• US Army allowed her to turn Ft Sam Houston parade grounds into flying field
• established Stinson School of Flying
• first woman and fourth pilot in US to perform the particularly dangerous loop-the-loop; in a plane she built herself
• first person (of either sex) to fly an airplane at night
• 1915: first person to skywrite at night: spelled out "CAL" over Los Angeles
• 1916: Amelia Earhart graduated from her flying school
• first woman to fly in the Orient; "Air Queen" fan clubs throughout Asia
• China leaders were granted a private exhibition
• 1917: set long-distance record of 610 miles, flying alone from San Diego to San Francisco
• first woman pilot to be commissioned as a US Post Office mail pilot
• broke her own flying record while carrying airmail: 783-mile flight from Chicago to near NYC
• applied to fly for US Army in WWI; rejected because she was a woman
• volunteered as an ambulance driver instead for WWI; contracted tuberculosis during the war
• sought tuberculosis cure in Santa Fe, New Mexico, upon return; required less active live
• designed apartments in Santa Fe; influenced by Pueblo Indians and Spanish missions
• one of "my heroes"