Is Indiana Jones a passenger on this flight? No, this is just the EAA’s Ford Tri-Motor on final aproach to Runway 22 at Peoria Int’l Airport on Sunday afternoon, September 27, 2009.
I took advantage of Sunday’s afternoon’s sunny skies to get some pics of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s “Eastern Air Transport” Ford Tri-Motor, NC8407, which arrived Friday.
Interestingly, the plane came off the assembly line in 1929, three years before the presently-named Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria Int’l Airport existed!
Seeing this aircraft flying above Peoria’s skies this weekend made me long for the days before sleek jets, and even those piston-engine American Airlines Convair 240s, Ozark Air Lines DC-3s and Trans World Airlines Martin 404s that were regular visitors to the then-Greater Peoria Airport during the 1950s.
- David P. Jordan
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