Anyone here fly Convair 440 Metropolitans?

Jay,

Convairs could and did use IOW on a regular basis, field is plenty
long for them. Most all have been converted to the 580 (turboprop).

Ozark ran DC-3s pretty heavily, then the Fokker/FH-227 turboprop and
DC-9s. All would fit at IOW, although I don't recall whether they
ever ran the DC-9s in there. For some reason I seem to recall that
various college teams came into IOW in DC-9s but I'm not sure. Friend
of mine who is a United captain now went to college at Iowa and flew
out of IOW at the time. I'll ask him what he recalls coming into the
airport.

Warmest regards,
Rick

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:BJUmd.419737$D%.332315@attbi_s51...
I've received word from an old United pilot that they used to fly the
Metropolitans into Iowa City until 1959 or so. Anyone here ever flown one?

Can anyone comment on how much runway this plane would have needed?

Also, anyone here ever fly for Ozark? They took over service into IOW from
United in '59, and flew into Iowa City until '72. I'm wondering what kind
of planes they flew into smaller airports like ours?

Thanks in advance!