Howard Aircraft Corporation "DGA"

I thought this was interesting, most aviation enthusiasts probably knew this already.
My wife's grandmother had good friends in the late 1920's and early 1930's named Frank and Nell Parker.  He was also known as the "aviation bootlegger" and owned a Howard DGA.


In 1937, the Howard Aircraft Corporation of Chicago was born. Later

that year, the company began offering the DGA-9, with a 285 hp

Jacobs L-5 powerplant. As was manufacturing custom at the time,

each Howard airplane was painstakingly custom built, and from 1936

to 1939, approximately 30 were completed.

It’s claimed that early in his career, in the midst of Prohibition, a

young and poor Benny Howard accepted a Houston, Tex.,

bootlegger’s offer of a good sum of cash if Howard could successfully

modify the bootlegger’s airplane to haul 16 cases of liquor. Howard

did his work so well that the rumrunner reportedly declared his newly

altered airplane a “Damned Good Airplane.” From then on, beginning

with his first design, the DGA-1, every Howard was known as a DGA.