Funny how many of the ones that got away with me were civil aircraft. This is the Ford Trimotor. Henry Ford bought an airplane manufacturer and this was the result. It looks very similar to the Fokker Trimotor, but the Ford plane’s fuselage was metal, while the Fokker’s was plywood. There were almost 200 of these Ford planes made, a significant number, but Henry Ford lost interest in aviation and ceased production in 1933. Nonetheless over 100 airlines used the plane at one time or another, and they continued in use even after the second world war for some time.
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