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    Airframe Family: Ford Trimotor
    Latest Model:5-AT-B Trimotor
    Construction Number:5-AT-034
    Last Civil Registration:N9651
    Compressed ID:Ford 5-AT-B cn 5-AT-034 cr N9651
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 5-AT-B.

    1929

    To Trans Continental Air Transport with new c/r NC9651.
    Operated with markings: City of Philadelphia

    To TWA with new c/r N9651.

    September 1959


    Photographer: William T Larkins Collection

    1971


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    17 October 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9651 (5-AT-B, 34) issued.

    1 August 1980


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: KRHV - Ford Tri Motor N9651 City of Philadelphia at Amelia Reid aviation ramp late 1980 in San Jose, CA. This Tri- was based at the Flying Lady Restaurant in Morgan Hill,CA and usually kept in the large hangar there along with many other old warbirds and Bi-Planes. The aircaft at the flying Lady complex used the 16th Fairway on the adjacent Golf Course for take offs and landings on the grass doubling as a Runway. Between 1990-91 the company I work for was required to check equipment at the Flying Lady Complex and I was able to get in the Aircraft barn various times, but did not have my camera with me. The Ford Tri-Motor was sold years later after this photo and was sent to Florida. The Flying Lady went out of business after a structural accident at the restaurant put them out of business.

    22 August 1981


    Photographer: Mike Woodley
    Notes: Merced Antique Fly-in 8-22-81, Merced CA.

    22 June 1982


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at Merced, CA.

    1984

    Appeared in the movie - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

    May 1990


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at the Watsonville Airshow in Watsonville, CA.

    20 October 1993

    To Weeks Kermit, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N9651.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection
    Notes: Photographed at the Fantasy of Flight in Florida.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    Markings Applied: CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, U.S. MAIL A.M. 34, TRANS WORLD AIRLINE, TAT, Ford TRI-MOTOR

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9651 (5-AT-B, 34) issued.
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