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After the first commercial aircraft reliability tour aircraft return to Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.

A film about the first commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A group of men waiting at Ford Airport. Pilot Eddie Hamilton of Ford aircraft being given a warm welcome. People gathered around the aircraft. The pilot being carried away on the shoulders of the spectators. He shakes hands with men. Men seated at a dinner table during a banquet given in honor of the pilots.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066085
Henry Ford talks to a man at the Ford Airport during a commercial aircraft reliability tour in Dearborn, Michigan.

Commercial airplane reliability tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Several single engine Ford aircraft parked on a field. The founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford and a man walk to the aircraft. A pick up truck in the background. Henry Ford with a man as they stand near the tail of the aircraft. A large hangar in the background. A sign on a doorway in the background reads 'Ford Airport'.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066092
Edsel Ford waves off various aircraft during a commercial aircraft reliability tour in Dearborn, Michigan.

Commercial airplane reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The president of the Ford Motor Company Edsel Ford waves off a flag as a Swallow aircraft numbered 16 piloted by Earl Rowland takes off. A Fokker aircraft numbered 20 being waved off. A 'Carrier' aircraft piloted by Casey Jones and a Martin aircraft piloted by L.B. Richardson take off. A Ford all metal airplane piloted by Edward G. Harrington takes off. A mooring mast in the background.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066093
Henry Ford at Ford Airport during a commercial reliability tour in Dearborn, Michigan.

Commercial airplane reliability tour for the Edsel B. Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Cars parked at the airport. People stand under the wings of an aircraft due to rain. An aircraft flies overhead and lands on a muddy field. A searchlight being used to help pilots find the the airport. Henry Ford in rain coat, conversing with William B. Stout, head of the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company. Ford steps away and Stout discusses something with another man, who refers to a paper, perhaps a flying schedule. Ford walks past in background.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066095
Start of the 1930 National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy

A variety of airplanes parked at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan,at the start of the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane reliability tour, AKA The National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Red, White, and blue bunting decorates the airport building. In the distance, the Clock Tower, at Greenfield Village can be seen. Some pilots start their engines. At TC: 00:40 Nancy Hopkins, the only woman pilot in the event (and her own mechanic), is seen walking toward the camera, smiling and folding a paper. At TC:00:45, Aviator Jimmy Doolittle is seen standing by the leading edge of an airplane wing, with his hand on the pitot tube. Edsel Ford and an assistant control the start of airplanes, each at a specific time. They signal each pilot to start, using a white flag. The last plane seen taking off is number 22, a Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, piloted by Nancy Hopkins.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1930, September
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066096
Scenes from 1930 Ford National Air Tour, starting out at Ford Airport, Dearborn Michigan.

Aviatrix (Woman pilot) Nancy Hopkins, who was invited to fly in the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour, is seen in the cockpit of her Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, manufactured by the Viking Flying Boat Company. ("Kitty Hawk" is written on her plane's vertical stabilizer.) She has been assigned the number 22 for this event, which starts at the Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan. Scene shifts to A Waco CSO J6-7 airplane, serial number NC634N, taking off. A large formation of U.S. Army Boeing P-12 biplanes flies overhead. Crowd of spectators is gathered on ramp behind the airport terminal. The Army airplanes fly back overhead again. In foreground, a Ford Trimotor passenger airplane sits with its 3 engines running. Bill Stout of Ford's Stout Metal Aircraft Company shakes hands with Texaco Company's pilot, Captain Frank M. Hawks, in the cockpit of his Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship," named Texaco 13. Photographer takes their picture. (Hawks is a tour referee, and about to depart for Grand Forks to make advance preparations there.) Mrs. Henry Ford steps up and also shakes Hawks' hand. He waves goodbye and taxis out for takeoff.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1930, September
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066097
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