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In the late 1950s Ottawa, Kansas-based Chuck LeMaster bought this 1929 Ford Tri-Motor originally intending to use it as an agricultural spray plane. After it was badly damaged in a wind storm the Experimental Aircraft Association helped him rebuild it, and at the time of the photo it was being used to tour the USA, "offering rides to aviation and history enthusiasts alike". (With thanks to catchitintime.org for much of the above).

Johnny Louck's 5-AT-C Tri-Motor, 1961 EAA Fly-in, Rockford, IL.

Johnny Louck's 5-AT-C Tri-Motor, 1961 EAA Fly-in, Rockford, IL.

TWA Tin Goose at Mills Field, now San Francisco International. Photo from: SFO Museum

This aircraft was never a military plane, but it has been restored to replicate an Army Air Corps C-4A. 9 June 1929: First flight. Purchased by Northwest Airlines, later to Air Alaska and Monroe Airlines, MI. 1951: Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, MT with c/r N8419. Used by the United States Fire Services. 4 Aug 59: Crashed with smoke jumpers on board at Granville, ID. 1984 to 1991: Restored with parts from several other wrecked Ford Trimotors. 5 Mar '92: Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI.

This aircraft was never a military plane, but it has been restored to replicate an Army Air Corps C-4A. 9 June 1929: First flight. Purchased by Northwest Airlines, later to Air Alaska and Monroe Airlines, MI. 1951: Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, MT with c/r N8419. Used by the United States Fire Services. 4 Aug 59: Crashed with smoke jumpers on board at Granville, ID. 1984 to 1991: Restored with parts from several other wrecked Ford Trimotors. 5 Mar '92: Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI.

This aircraft was never a military plane, but it has been restored to replicate an Army Air Corps C-4A. 9 June 1929: First flight. Purchased by Northwest Airlines, later to Air Alaska and Monroe Airlines, MI. 1951: Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, MT with c/r N8419. Used by the United States Fire Services. 4 Aug 59: Crashed with smoke jumpers on board at Granville, ID. 1984 to 1991: Restored with parts from several other wrecked Ford Trimotors. 5 Mar '92: Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI.

Aircraft reportedly given in 1930 by roller bearing manufactuer Henry Tinken to his son, who was trained to fly it by Lt Ralph Wickford. Apparently this Tri-Motor won a race for 'transport ships' at the National Air Races in 1931. By July 1933, it was the largest plane owned by Shell and flown on a tour around New England that summer by Maj Ervin and Wickford again, taking Shell distributors, dealers and friends on pleasure flights. It was furnished with six leather and wicker chairs and a large green leather divan. Sold to Colombian air force in 1935. To AN-AAD in Nicaragua, XH-TAI in Honduras. Photo by: Leslie Jones / Boston Public Library

Built in 1929, owned by the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum. Per AerialVisuals, this aircraft is a composite rebuild of several Trimotors.

NC422H was a weather diversion after fog prevented it landing at Newark. NC422H was lost in a hangar fire at Sioux City, Iowa, on January 20, 1937. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

To Northwest Airways in 1929. In 1935 to Alaska. Then it joined Monroe Airlines, Michigan. In June 1951 it was purchased by Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, MT with new c/r N8419 to be used by the United States Fire Services but for a short while it was used in a film "Red Skies of Montana". It was also leased back to Northwest Airlines for a commemorative flight in 1956. On 4 August 1959 the aircraft crashed at Grangeville, Idaho killing three people. The aircraft was substantially destroyed but rebuilt from the remains and other Tri-motor components. Registration cancelled 14 February 2018.

Owned by Harold Cooper, Ford's British agent, the aircraft made a demonstration tour through the Netherlands although 5-AT-C NC8412 had already done so two years earlier. G-ABHF - a mark chosen to include Henry Ford's initials - to New Guinea as VH-UTB in 1934. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Impressed by the RAAF as A45-1 during World War II. Photo by Peter N Johnston.

This Tin Goose was demonstrated in Europe during the second half of 1929. Sold to ČSA as OK-FOR in January 1930. Crashed on 22 August 1930 at Jihlava on a Prague - Bratislava - Brno flight as pilot Josef Sedlár manoeuvred to avoid a thunderstorm and a tall chimney. 12 of the 13 people on board were killed; only one Professor Kraus survived. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

TAT flights met overnight trains from New York at Port Columbus and flew passengers to Oklahoma where they boarded another overnight train to Clovis, New Mexico. There they boarded a flight to Los Angeles. It saved a day over an all rail journey. TWA photo. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia