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Description
America's oldest flying airliner
World's oldest flying metal airliner
World's oldest flying multiengine airliner
The most historic airliner in the world! Fully restored Ford Trimotor which has been flown by:
Charles Lindbergh - Aviation Pioneer
Amelia Earhart - Pioneer Aviatrix
Harry Brooks - Chief Pilot - Ford Motor Company
Bernt Balhen - First Man to fly over the South Pole
Floyd Bennett - First Man to fly over the North Pole
Captain Hermann Koehl - Bremen Crew - First to fly the Atlantic - East to West
Major James Fitzmaurice - Bremen Crew - First to fly the Atlantic - East to West
Baron Ehrenfried Güenther Von Huenefeld - Bremen Crew - First to fly the Atlantic - East to West
Grant McConachie - Canadian Aviation Pioneer - President of Canadian Pacific Airlines
Harold Gray - Aviation Pioneer - Chairman of Pan American
and made the following famous flights:
Flying Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh to Mexico City to see her son, Charles Lindbergh, Christmas 1927
The first plane, Anne Morrow flew in with Charles Lindbergh - Christmas 1927
In 1927, the largest aircraft to have flown in Mexico
First commercial flight between the United States and Mexico - 1927
In 1928, the largest aircraft to have flown in Canada
First For Tri-motor to be put on floats
First Ford Tri-motor to be exported
First aircraft to fly a commercial flight over the Canadian Rockies
Oldest Tri-motor in existence
Airframe
Fully restored to perfection by Hov Air.
Engine(s)
Pratt & Whitney R-985's
