San Antonio, TX and Miami, FL 1949-1962

Associated Air Transport was a Miami, FL based company which engaged mainly in irregular scheduled passenger services between New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico as well as Chicago, New York to Miami. Like many other non-skeds, it initially had military contracts, but these were cancelled in 1961 due to safety violations.  It began operations with C-46s and then graduated to DC-3s, DC-4s, DC-7s, L-749 Constellations and VS-44A aircraft.