Anyone here fly Convair 440 Metropolitans?

Rick Durden wrote:

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.

I remember a 15 minute show every Sunday morning in the Twin Cities that
we watched before going to church, probably earl 70's. It was some type
of flying show made by North Central Airways, basically a 15 minute
advertisement for the airline. Lots of flying scenes with whatever
airplanes they were using in those days. Anybody else remember that show?