Mid-West Airlines

For the Egyptian airline, see Midwest Airlines (Egypt). For the US airline that operated in Milwaukee 1984-2010, see Midwest Airlines. For the successor to Midwest Airlines proposed to begin operations in 2019, see Midwest Express Airlines (2019).
Not to be confused with Air Midwest, a defunct regional US airline or Midwest Airlines, Ltd., a defunct Canadian regional airline based in Winnipeg[1].
Mid-West Airlines
Founded1933 (as
Iowa Airplane Company)
Commenced operations21 October 1949 (1949-10-21)
Ceased operations15 May 1952 (1952-05-15)
Operating basesDes Moines, Iowa
Parent companyPurdue Research Foundation(1951–1952)
HeadquartersDes Moines, Iowa,
United States
Key peopleF.C. Anderson
Mid-West's network and proposed additions from the April 1952 CAB case that denied its certificate extension

Mid-West Airlines was a Des Moines, Iowa-based local service carrier, a scheduled airline certificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now-defunct Federal agency that at the time tightly regulated almost all US air transportation, to fly smaller routes in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota. It was briefly owned by a Purdue University affiliate before being liquidated after the CAB refused to extend the airline's initial certification. It was one of three local service carriers (out of 19 that started CAB-certificated operations) that failed to have initial certification extended by the CAB, the other two being Florida Airways and Wiggins Airways.[2]

  1. ^ February 1, 1976 Official Airline Guide
  2. ^ Eads, George C. (1972). The Local Service Airline Experiment. Brookings Institution. pp. 4, 98. ISBN 9780815720225.