The Texas Air Museum is transporting several vintage aircraft donated by Betty Hoyle and her family to their South Side hangar for restoration.
Rusted metal and cracked wood are all that remain of two Fairchild PT-19 airplanes pilots once used to solve mysteries of flight. The remnants were among several vintage aircraft long grounded in the darkness of an old metal barn on the Northwest Side. After decades there, the airplanes will make one more departure — South Texas resident Betty Hoyle, 72, and her family donated the remnants to the Texas Air Museum at Stinson Municipal Airport.
Daddy’s Home’: San Antonio woman recalls days of flight on the wild Northwest Side In sweltering heat, Luis John Soria, assistant museum director, and DuJuana Schroeder, second assistant, recently extracted old fuselages and skeletal frames from metal debris and tangled weeds. Sweat clung to the salvagers’ clothes as they transported the husks via a 10-foot trailer. Soria, a 21-year Army veteran, said it’s a worthwhile task for him and fellow volunteers to restore the planes to former glory.
Snoopy the Beagle welcomes aviation enthusiasts to Texas Air Museum at Stinson Airport Hoyle’s son, Timothy, a former volunteer, set up the transactions. Soria researched the registration number of the first airframe and learned the pieces were from a Stinson SM-8A built in 1930 by the Stinson Aircraft Corp. The company was owned by Edward Stinson, who, with sisters Katherine and Marjorie, ran the Stinson School of Flying from 1915 to the start of World War I at the South Side airfield.
The important history behind the Southside’s Stinson Municipal Airport Word spread of the acquisition, and the aviation community took notice. The Uvalde Air Museum donated spare parts of a remaining PT-19 to aid Texas Air’s restoration project. Now, volunteers are working on retrieving the Merlin IV C, developed and built in 1983 by aerospace engineer Ed Swearingen in San Antonio. “The plane is coming back to its roots,” Soria said.
Stinson cafe offers workplace for teens interested in aviation Long days lie ahead for the volunteers. Soria plans to set up a machine shop for cleaning parts, welding and hand painting original colors. The team is seeking airframe mechanics, people with fabrication experience and donations to keep the operation on track. He said preserving the aircraft is a boon, not just for aviators but the city. “It’s a million-to-one shot that these aircraft come here,” Soria said.
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