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Henry Ford Was Here (and Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart…)
In the mid-1920s, auto magnate Henry Ford bought 1,400 acres of land and constructed an air strip in Lansing, Ill. where he hoped to mass-produce the Ford Tri-Motor, a workhorse three-motor airplane used for commercial aviation and passenger flights by fledgling airlines.  Located in what now is Lansing Municipal Airport, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart [...]
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