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Text Box: taining materials from the north wing of the Terminal, and submission of the Terminal for designation as a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as analogous state and local historic designations. While the rental the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society has negotiated with the Houston Airport System is lower than market rental, it is a significant monthly commitment. Although museum fundraising has been aimed almost excluText Box: On Wednesday, March 26, Houston City Council voted unanimously to approve The Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society’s lease on the 1940 Air Terminal, and the land surrounding the Terminal East of Telephone Road. The lease is for 20 years and provides two five year options to renew after the initial 20 years. Thank you to everyone who contacted City Council in support of the lease. Our general contractor, Tribble & Stephens, and Text Box: architect Howard Hill, with Brand + Allen Architects, are now working to obtain the necessary permits and approvals from the City of Houston. The on-site restoration of the Terminal will begin immediately as the necessary permits and approvals are granted. The first priorities will be to construct a fence around the Terminal which will effectively remove the Terminal from the Hobby Airport secured airport operations area, removal of any remaining asbestos conText Box: The Terminal is Saved! Text Box: The Journal of the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society, Inc. Text Box: May 2003 Text Box: Volume 4, Issue 1 Text Box: The Starliner

JONATHAN FRANK UNVEILS NEW PAINTING: DAWN OF A NEW ERA

With the tremendous success of Age of the Classics—the Houston Municipal Air Terminal, the 1940 Air Terminal Museum commissioned artist Jonathan Frank to create another painting of the Terminal.  Jon unveiled the new painting, Dawn of a New Era, at the Pops & Props Gala in January.  The painting features the original three story elevation of the Terminal, prior to the additions to the building in the late 1940s.  The painting also features a Braniff Airways

Douglas DC-3 and a Pan American World Airways Douglas DC-4. 

We have produced 10 canvas transfer prints, 50 signed, numbered and

remarqued artist proofs and 940 signed and numbered prints of the painting.  All prints are signed by Jon Frank and by retired Braniff Captain

Eddie Meier.  In 1940, Capt. Meier personally flew Tom Braniff to Houston for the opening of the Houston Municipal Air Terminal. 

We are now pre-selling canvas transfers for $500 and artist proofs for $125.  The prints will be available for $75.  The canvas transfers, artist proofs and prints should be available for delivery by the end of May.  Purchase online at www.1940Air

Terminal.org.

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Text Box: sively at raising money for the restoration of the Terminal, lease payments will come from the museum’s operating budget. The museum’s operating budget comes from museum memberships and the sale of merchandise and has funded routine expenditures such as insurance, printing, postage, website hosting, merchandise inventory and museum collections. There has never been a better, and more important, time to become a member of the Museum.