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    Airframe Family: Ford Trimotor
    Latest Model:5-AT-C Trimotor
    Construction Number:5-AT-058
    Last Civil Registration:N8419
    Compressed ID:Ford 5-AT-C cn 5-AT-058 cr N8419
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 5-AT-C.

    29 June 1929

    First flight.

    1929

    To Northwest Airlines.

    1935

    To Air Alaska.

    To Monroe Airlines, MI.

    By January 1951

    To Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, MT with new c/r N8419 (Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor, 5-AT-58).

    Used by the United States Fire Services but for a short while it was used in the film Red Skies of Montana.

    From 1956 to 1956

    Leased to Northwest Airlines.
    For a commemorative flight.

    4 August 1959

    Crashed.
    Summary: The damage to the airframe was substantial. There were three fatalities. The fire fighting flight departed Grangeville-Idaho County Airport, ID, United States of America and was destined for Moose Creek Airstrip, ID, United States of America. The accident occurred at Moose Creek, ID (United States of America) while on approach. The airframe was repaired. Narrative: The Tri-Motor took off from the Grangeville to deliver goods to the backcountry airstrip at Moose Creek on the Nezperce National Forest and to drop two smokejumpers on a fire burning on Pettibone Ridge...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    From 1984 to 1991

    Restored.
    The aircraft is actually a composite rebuild of several wrecked Trimotors.

    1990


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    25 July 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8419 (5-AT-C, 58) issued.

    Markings Applied: C-4A, 29-058

    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Oshkosh, WI

    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Oshkosh, WI

    5 March 1992

    To Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI keeping c/r N8419.

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    In the inventory of Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    8 August 2015


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: On display in the Kalamazoo Air Zoo.

    14 February 2018

    Civil registration, N8419, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Photographer: William T Larkins


    Photographer: William T Larkins
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Air History.org
    Aircraft in Focus
    Aviation Safety Network
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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