Iowa Airplane Company

[RyanShort1]

Does anyone have leads on the "Iowa Airplane Company" of Des Moines, Iowa during WWII??? I'm doing research on the Luscombe I'm now the care-taker of and it appears that it was flying with this outfit pretty heavily during the war years. It looks like it had something close to 1800 hours put on it during the WWII years.

https://books.google.com/books?id=v...ge&q="Iowa Airplane Company" Luscombe&f=false

 

[Bell206]

have leads on the "Iowa Airplane Company" of Des Moines, Iowa

Your link mentions a possible connection to the USAAC training side. If the Iowa Airplane Company was one of the feeder schools to the AAC primary flight training schools there might be information listed in the National Archives. There were 100s of small companies that popped up in the WWII years that prepped students for military training. If nothing directly at the NA you might try the US Army Center of Military History. Another place to look is in the city archives of Des Moines.

 

[RyanShort1]

Still looking for stuff, y'all!!!