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