Originally Posted by
jrl767
17- I was apparently conflating this question with the next one (that originates Amarillo after a drive from LBB) ... speaking of “memory less than 100%”
but that said, my second guess is SPS — Sheppard Air Force Base, co-located with Wichita Falls Municipal Airport
17. Yep, you've got it. Here's the sched....
BN 364: Austin (AUS) 12:15p - 12:57p Dallas Love (DAL) 1:30p - 2:08p Wichita Falls (SPS) 2:25p - 3:11p Lubbock (LBB)
Freq: Daily
Service classes: F/Y
Meal service: None
Equip:
JET One-11
BTW, one had a choice of mainline trunk airlines offering nonstop service from Wichita Falls to Lubbock during the mid to late 1960's as Continental was operating a daily Vickers Viscount flight operating a routing of TUL - OKC - LAW - SPS - LBB - ELP. This service then turned around at El Paso and flew a reverse routing with the flight terminating at Kansas City (MKC) following a stop in Tulsa. CO would eventually operate B727-200 service into Wichita Falls on the same basic routing. Trans-Texas wasn't yet serving Wichita Falls at this time but after Braniff pulled out of SPS Texas International subsequently showed up with Convair 600 and Douglas DC9 service on the short hop to DFW.