Great histgory Don, thank you. A Ford Tri-Motors-Motor is under (re)construction, maybe creation of, at Port Clinton, OH. See https://www.restoretheford.org The intent is to have two Tri-Motors in use, one based there and another to tour, I believe under direction of the EAA. My 7th grade teacher was a smoke jumper based in Missoula where a Tri-Motors-Motor was used. He related on one return jump flight the crew found bits of tree foliage in the undercarriage from a possible too-close look at a fire. The plane's three engines were hard to keep in sync leading to a "waa-waa" sound.
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