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He was born September 8, 1909 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

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Art was 14 when he earned the FCC Call Sign 9CXX.

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ART stands for Airborne Radio Transmitter.

Arthur was Merle and Faith Collins' only child.

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In fact, it was the old, now demolished, Washington High School, located in downtown Cedar Rapids.

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In 1925, Arthur, a High School Junior - with the help of John Reinartz, successfully provided radio communication with the MacMillan Scientific Expedition to Greenland.

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The Collins Radio Company was first incorporated September 9, 1933 in Delaware. Arthur, and his father Merle, later changed the corporate registration to Iowa on May 18, 1937.

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In 1936, Arthur bought a Rearwin Sportster - a two-passenger red fabric monoplane with a 75-horsepower Le Blond engine.

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Actually, Arthur did not graduate from a higher institution than High School. He tried a year at Amherst in Massachusetts and several courses at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. He did, however, receive many accolades and several honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities later in life.

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Noted Rocket Scientist Robert Goddard supported Arthur in court, proving that he, Goddard, had created a radio tube of his own design years before that worked perfectly as a transmitter oscillator. After a long battle, RCA retracted their suit against Collins, and other radio manufacturers, allowing them to use RCA's patents.