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1928 Ford Tri-Motor

This Ford Trimotor is providing rides to airshow visitors. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Trimotors helped revolutionize passenger air travel.

 

This Tri-Motor is a model 5-15-B, serial number 8. It was built in 1928, and is owned by the Liberty Aviation Museum, Port Clinton, Ohio.

 

This Trimotor has the livery of Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T). In 1929 T-A-T started using Trimotors to provide transcontinental passenger service in the form of a 48-hour trip from New York City to Los Angeles. Passengers traveled by train at night and Trimotor during the day.

 

Seen at the 2024 Thunder Over Michigan airshow. #ThunderOverMI

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Uploaded on August 3, 2024
Taken on July 20, 2024