 These included Will Rogers, who rode on the inaugural flight, and Hollywood actors Arthur Edmund Carewe and Dolores del Río.Maddux Air Line, established in 1927 was the California terminus for Trancontinental Air Transport (TAT) when it started New York to California operations in July 1929.For six months the Maddux and TAT airplanes carried a combination logo of their two companies until TAT bought out Maddux in November 1929.