Antique Airplane Association

The Antique Airplane Association, Inc. (AAA) is the most seasoned antique plane relationship on the planet. The AAA shaped in August 1953 by Robert L. Taylor by means of an ordered advertisement in Flying magazine and a couple people with a profound situated enthusiasm for old planes, for the reason to fly, to safeguard, to share and to advance the early flying machines. The AAA works from Antique Airfield in Blakesburg, Iowa and serves as the home office for its 50 section associations and 7000 individuals from all through the United States and 20 remote nations. Organizer and president of the national Antique Airplane Association and additionally current Chairman of the Board of the firmly partnered Airpower Museum Inc., Taylor states on the national club site "around then (1953) no other affiliation existed that had a particular enthusiasm for collectible and great planes. No flight authentic gatherings had yet been framed. The AAA was sorted out to "Keep the Antiques Flying" and this essential reason has dependably been our fundamental interest and essential capacity. We do give our enrollment flight history and recollections of the vital parts our own particular individuals have played in this interesting subject.The AAA of the late 50s was consolidated by Ken Cook, at the time serving as the AAA VP. Amid this time Cook distributed another form of the AAA News and would later rename it the American Airman magazine. In 1961, Cook pulled back his inclusion with the AAA. In the 1960s, the rest of the parts stock for LeBlond flying machine motors was sold to the AAA. There are a couple parts left, yet generally what are left are motor drawings. In 1970 the AAA Board of Directors affirmed the important changes required of the AAA keeping in mind the end goal to be sanctioned as a non-benefit company in the condition of Iowa and has worked all things considered since that time.