Southwest Airport Services is a defense

Defense contractor

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 fuels contractor that operates out of a 12500 square feet (1,161.3 m²) facility at Ellington Field

Ellington Field

Ellington International Airport is a joint civil-military airport located in the U.S. state of Texas within the city of Houston— southeast of Downtown. Established by the Army Air Service on 21 May 1917, Ellington Field was one of the initial World War I Army Air Service installations when...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. It offers services such as on-site car rental

Car rental

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s, computerized weather systems and high-speed Internet access. It also provides fueling services for the military as well as training facilities.

Southwest Airport Services was established in 1985 by James R. Bath

James R. Bath

James Reynolds Bath is a former director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International , and also former part owner of Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush, with whom Bath served as a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War...

 to manage the Houston Gulf Airport

Houston Gulf Airport

Houston Gulf Airport was a single-runway airport located in eastern League City, Texas, United States. Its FAA code was SPX and its IATA code was also SPX.- History :...

until it closed in 2002.