The Ford Reliability Tour, properly called The National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, was a series of aerial tours sponsored in part by Ford Motor Company from 1925 to 1931 and re
Eddie August Schneider accepting the Great Lakes Trophy from David Vincent Stratton of the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27, 1930.
1925 Ford Tour route
The 1927 tour's winning Stinson SM-1 Detroiter (foreground) with a Ford Trimotor (background) on June 28, 1927.
1928 Ford Tour route starting in Dearborn.
Stout 2-AT Pullman
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The Stout 2-AT Pullman, or "Air Pullman", was a single engine all-metal monoplane that was used for early airline travel and air mail transport in the United States.
Ford National Reliability Air Tour
…Company. In August 1925, they purchased the entire company, making it the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company. Their product, the Stout 2-AT Pullman, was a featured plane. The plane was also used by their new airline the Ford Air Transport Service, which started regular flights in April 1925. The…
Stout AT-2 "Maiden Dearborn"
Letter from first CAM flight in a 2-AT
Florida Airways Stout 2-ATs. (State Library and Archives of Florida)