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Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1926
Coppen, Otto and Ford Motor Company1926
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Just as he put the world on wheels with the Model T, Henry Ford hoped to give it wings with a small, affordable airplane. Three or four prototype Flivver planes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after his test pilot, Harry Brooks, died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
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- Title: Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1926
- Creator: Coppen, Otto, Ford Motor Company
- Date Created: 1926
- Location: United States, Michigan, Dearborn
- Subject Keywords: Airplanes, Monoplanes, Aviation, Brooks, Harry, 1902-1928, Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=264186
- Object Name: Airplane
- Object ID: 28.481.1
- Image ID: THF39669
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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