Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In

Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.

  • By airspacemag.com
  • AirSpaceMag.com, November 18, 2008
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Caroline Sheen


1927 Ford-AT-B
Livery: Ford
Tail number 1077

On its way home to Minneapolis, the Ford Tri-motor breezed through a wind farm.


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I remember seeing the two Sikorsky flying boats owned by
Martin and Osa Johnson at the Chanute Airport about 1933 or 1934. We lived in Chanute, Kansas at the time, and took
photographs of both planes (unfortunately, none of the photos exist today).

Posted by Robert Finch on March 9,2010 | 03:56 PM

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