The OTW was a plane designed and built by Andy Meyers. The letters "OTW" stand for "Out To Win". The initial test flight of this craft occured at the old Wayne County Airport, Michigan at 4 pm on May 10, 1936 with the test flight being covered by the Detroit News. The testing took some nine hours, at which time Meyers had to fly in the newly tested OTW to New York to attend to his mother who had been burned in a fire. Meyers took off in the just-tested aircraft and, according to the newspapers, both patient and OTW #1 made it through.

With the outbreak of WWII the OTWwas pressed into service. The government needed large numbers of pilots trained quickly.In order to meet this demand, The Civilian Pilot Training Program was enacted. Under this program the government contracted with many private flying schools to train pilots for the military. The last of only 103 OTW's was finished in 1943.

Our OTW is the original. It proudly displays the serial number "1" on either side of the forward fuselage. It spent the war training pilots at John Brown's University in Arkansas. After the war it was sold to private ownersand spent more than 10 years as a crop duster in the Wichita area.

In 1986 Tthe Combat Air Museum was able to buy the aircraft with donations from the Topeka community.