Tin Goose to Boneyard

Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station.

First tri-motor to cross the Rockies in regular passenger service, it was originally bought by John Maddux for his Los Angeles-San Francisco airline, later by T. A. T.-Maddux for transcontinental service. Placed in Penn Station as a living advertisement for air travel, it had long ago ceased to be anything more than a curio. Last week 30 students from the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics at Newark removed the old-fashioned wicker chairs from the cabin, dismantled the wings, motors, fuselage, shipped the parts to Dearborn, Mich, where they will be reassembled as a permanent exhibit in the Ford Museum.

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