(Tony wrote).
It was operated by Tri-Motor Air Tours out of Fullerton airport. It was a
bushmaster built in 1985. The main page of the Air Tours website is
temporarily down, but google's cache still has it available. Their
aircraft
info page is still up at http://www.tri-motor.com/equip.html


This from their web page:
http://www.tri-motor.com/equip.html

We are aware of 8 Tri-Motors still flying:

Bob Ellis in Kalamazoo, MI (4-AT-58, 5-AT-58, 4-AT-62),
Kermit Weeks in Polk, FL (4-AT-38),
EAA in Oshkosh, WI (4-AT-69),
Chino Air Museum in Grand Canyon, AZ (5-AT-74),
Kansas City, KS (15-AT/BU-2000-1),
and ours in Long Beach, CA (15-AT/BU-2000-2).
There are 11 more reported Tri-Motors which are not flyable, but still
around.


Golden Wings Museum at ANE has a Ford Tri-Motor that is not on this list.
http://www.goldenwingsmuseum.com/Aircraft.html

It's the one that was at OSH this year.

This was interesting, from the History link - then go in a couple of pages:
http://www.fordtri-motor.com/

Part of C-1077 is in the Spirit of St. Louis

Bill Stout: “We offered to have Harry Russell go over Lindbergh’s plane
before he left, Harry being considerably more reliable than the local
mechanics. A very small thing may often influence a large event. Harry
looked over the equipment and found that one of the brushes in the magneto
was worn down to within an eighth inch of the end. Taking a long flight
without a replacement would certainly have meant trouble. There were no
replacements, so Harry took one of the brushes out of our trimotor and put
the worn one in its place, knowing that our trip was shorter going home, and
that we had two other engines to depend on if one stopped.”

As the Spirit of St. Louis only flew an additional 101.5 hours, the part
placed on it in Mexico City from Ford C-1077 is no doubt hanging with the
Spirit in the National Air & Space Museum.

I helped with a wedding at the Museum on Saturday. There are 5 working
Tri-Motors (one Ford) all next to one another in the hangar (see Golden
Wings Museum link above)


Montblack