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    Airframe Family: Ford Trimotor
    Latest Model:4-AT-E Trimotor
    Construction Number:4-AT-055
    Last Civil Registration:N9612
    Compressed ID:Ford 4-AT-E cn 4-AT-055 cr N9612
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid America Flight Museum / Scott Glover, Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Mount Pleasant, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 4-AT-E.

    1929


    Photographer: Overton Family Trust

    1929

    To Mamer Flying Service, Spokane, Washington State with new c/r N9612.

    By 1941

    To K-T Flying Service of Honolulu keeping c/r N9612.

    7 December 1941

    Was at Pearl Harbor.

    1949

    Leased to TWA.
    For their 20th Anniversary celebrations.

    August 1952


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Orofino, Idaho, August 1952.

    6 May 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR9612 (4-AT-E, 55) issued.

    From Unknown to 1969

    To Johnson Flying Service, MT keeping c/r N9612.
    Flown for several years to drop Smoke Jumpers and supplies to fire fighters.

    16 September 1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Missoula, Montana

    1969

    To Dolph Overton keeping c/r N9612.
    Displayed in a hangar at the old Wings and Wheels Museum in Santee, South Carolina.

    January 1971


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At the Wings and Wheels Museum in Santee, South Carolina

    1972

    To Wings and Wheels Museum, Moncks Corner, SC.
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    By June 1972


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    21 September 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9612 (4-AT-E, 55) issued.

    1 November 2005

    The Tri-Motor was flown from Goldsboro, NC to Richmond, VA where it was on public display at the Virginia Aviation Museum.

    November 2005


    Photographer: Overton Family Trust
    Notes: Beautiful restoration work

    November 2005


    Photographer: Overton Family Trust

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR9612 (4-AT-E, 55) issued.

    January 2009

    Sold at Auction by Barrett-Jackson Auction Company in Scottsdale, AZ.

    13 May 2009

    To Collectible Aircraft Llc, Missoula, MT keeping c/r N9612.

    To Ron Pratte, Chandler, Arizona, and most of his Collection, Chandler Stellar Airpark.
    Purchase price - 1,210,000 US Dollars - Most of his Collection is based at Chandler Stellar Airpark.

    28 February 2012

    To Collectible Aircraft Llc, Missoula, MT keeping c/r N9612.

    5 April 2014

    28 May 2014

    To William S. Glover, Mount Pleasant, TX keeping c/r N9612.

    Based at Mid America Flight Museum/Scott Glover, Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Mount Pleasant, TX.
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