Want to go up?" Brent Taylor asks, pointing to a 1940s yellow and red Aeronca 7AC Champion. We climb in and taxi down the grass runway, then rise 300 feet. Below are the fields of Ottumwa, in the same part of southeastern Iowa where Grant Wood painted his classic "American Gothic." And there is Antique Airfield: two grass runways, four buildings that make up the Airpower Museum, a library under construction, and the offices of the Antique Airplane Association, the museum's parent organization. Painted in large black letters on the museum's main hangar is the motto of the place: "Keep the Antiques Flying."
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