Ford Tri-Motor Start-Up to Shut Down & Walk-Around NC8407 | Classic | Airplane

Flight on March 15, 2015 my friend Wayne Frank & I flew in this historic 1929 Ford Tri-Motor owned & operated by the EAA Experimental Aircraft Association at the Chino Airport in 2015 Thank You for Watching & Please Subscribe. This Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor (c/n 4-AT-69), registered as NC8407, was the 146th off Ford’s assembly line and first flew on August 21, 1929. It was sold to Pitcairn Aviation’s passenger division, Eastern Air Transport, whose paint scheme is seen on the aircraft today. In 1930, it was leased to Cubana Airlines, where it inaugurated air service between Havana and Santiago de Cuba. The airplane was later flown by the government of the Dominican Republic, and in 1949 returned to the U.S. for barnstorming use. In 1950, it was moved from Miami to Phoenix and was refitted with more powerful engines for use as a crop duster - with two 450 HP engines and one 550 HP engine, it became the most powerful Model 4-AT ever flown. In 1955, it was moved to Idaho and fitted with two