Steven,

Thanks for the correction on spelling.

Ms. Pellegrino spoke to our CAP squadron when I was in high school and
was very impressive. Her round the world flight was quite something.
Later, she and her husband owned some very rare aircraft. I recall
seeing one at OSH that was the prototype of the airplane that lost the
competition to the T-28, largely because it was a tailwheel airplane
and the Air Force and Navy wanted a nosewheel trainer.

All the best,
Rick

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It's been several years since I dealt with them, but the historical
society in Des Moines (museum is near the capitol) has some aviation
materials. Also Ann Peligrino (sp?)


Ann Pellegrino



who was the head of Iowa
Aeronautics and retraced Amelia Earhart's round the world flight (Ann
completed it successfully) in a twin Lockheed in the '60s, was reputed
to have collected a lot of Iowa aviation history material. I don't
know if she is still alive, but it might be worth a phone call to Iowa
Aeronautics in Des Moines.


She used a Lockheed 10A Electra and wrote a book about her flight, "World
Flight: The Earhart Trail", it was published in 1971 by The Iowa State
University Press. I believe it's still available, I get flyers from them
periodically.