The boutique terminal was built in the mid-1960s by the Business AirCraft Corp. and...
I have been interested in the building that now serves as the Pass and ID building at San Antonio International Airport. Is this the original San Antonio airport terminal? What year was it built?Many of us won’t have noticed this cheerful-looking little building, focused as we are on finding the right place to park, making our flights on time or finding the person we’re meeting.
“The short answer is the building was not part of the original terminal,” said Tim O’Krongley, deputy aviation director of planning, design, construction and the New Terminal Program. From his research, it was built in the mid-1960s for use in private aviation concerns, such as a fixed-base operator, providing services such as aircraft fueling, parking and rental; and a flight school.
A rendering of the front of the building in the San Antonio Express, April 12, 1963, shows the same distinctive, swoopy roofline — wings? waves? — that survives today, as planned for the Business AirCraft Corp., or BACC, as an “executive terminal building.” Charles Steen, whom the Express identifies as “the once-penniless oil prospector who found $12 million worth of uranium in Utah,” bankrolled the building and BACC, a holding company incorporated in 1962 that had taken over two other aviation firms, Alamo Aviation and Howard Aero, the latter previously purchased from business-flight pioneer Dee Howard (
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