This is one of my favorite rare Ford photos. It is on Virginia Street in downtown Reno, Nevada, on September 13, 1983. For two years, at the start of the National Championship Air Races, the main street was blocked off by the casinos to exhibit the Ford and other planes. The Ford was dismantled and trucked in to the site and then re-assembled.

This is Bill Harrah's beautiful Ford, just out of the shop after a 5-year rebuild. The Golden Gate Bridge and typical San Francisco fog are in the background.

Currently part of Fantasy of Flight collection.

Currently part of the Fantasy of Flight collection.

Currently part of the Fantasy of Flight collection.

On display at Richmond from 1 November 2005 until January 2009. It has been based at Mid America Flight Museum, Mount Pleasant, Texas, since 28 May 2014.

What a beautiful sight as it flies over Palm Springs.

The three R985 engines purring as it taxis back to the ramp at the Palm Springs Air Museum where it visited for a few days.

N9651 shown performing a fly by at the 1978 Watsonville Fly-in and Airshow. In 1978 N9671 was owned by Mr. Irv Perlich, and was based at his Flying Lady Ranch Museum in Morgan Hill, CA. Since 1993 it has been owned by Mr. Kermit Weeks of Polk City, FL.

N9651 was built in 1929 for Trans Continental Air Transport. At the time the slide was taken Mr. Irv Perlitch owned the aircraft. He also owned the Flying Lady Ranch Museum, and N9651 was maintained in flying condition, being exhibited at fly-ins and airshows often. Upon the closure of the museum in 1993 it was purchased by Mr. Kermit Weeks of Polk City, FL., where the a/c currently resides.

Kermit Weeks' 1929 Ford Tri-Motor comes to life with a radial engine's characteristic puff of exhaust on the ramp at the Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, Florida.

The Liberty Aviation Museum's Tri-motor, pictured at the 2018 AirVenture in association with the Experimental Aircraft Association for the Fly the Ford tour.