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    Airframe Family: Ford Trimotor
    Latest Model:5-AT-B Trimotor
    Construction Number:5-AT-039
    Last Civil Registration:N9683
    Compressed ID:Ford 5-AT-B cn 5-AT-039 cr N9683
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian - National Air and Space Museum, Washington, District of Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 5-AT-B.

    Circa 1930

    To American Airways with new c/r NC9683.

    25 July 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9683 (5-AT-B, 39) issued.

    Circa 1963

    Purchased by American Airlines for restoration and subsequent donation to the National Air and Space Museum.

    1965


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at an airshow or fly-in in Watsonville, CA.

    May 1965


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: American Airlines Ford 5-AT and Ford cars at Watsonville, CA, in May 1965.

    19 July 1967


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Rochester-Greater Rochester Intl - KROC

    3 June 1972


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor was on display at the U.S. International Transportation Exposition known as Transpo 72 held at Dulles International Airport, Virginia.

    10 December 1973

    To National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC with new c/r N9683.

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
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    24 November 2014

    Civil registration, N9683, cancelled.


    Photographer: William T Larkins


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: I purchased this color slide in an antique store- I have the original slide
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