Notable Appearances in Media
A Ford Trimotor appeared in Chapter 1 of Flash Gordon (Universal, 1936). Director Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings 1939 features a Trimotor that catches fire after a freak accident with a condor eventually performing an emergency landing on an airfield. A real and a model Trimotor were used for the sequence.
A number of flyable Trimotors have been seen in recent films, including Trimotor 5ATB N9651 which played a feature role in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Presently, this aircraft is in the Fantasy of Flight museum at Polk City, Florida. A Trimotor appeared flown by Jerry Lewis in The Family Jewels. A Trimotor also appears in the movies "The Untouchables"(1987), at least the passenger compartment, when Eliott Ness and his team travel to the Canadian border to ambush Al Capone's thugs while they negotiate a liquor shipment; other appearance is made in "Public Enemies"(2009), when the bank robber John Dillinger is transferred to a prison, flying in one Trimotor.
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