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The Fokker F-32 was a passenger aircraft built by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America in 1929 in their Teterboro, New Jersey factory. It was the first four-engined aircraft designed and built in the United States.

Pan American Airways was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991. It was founded in 1927 as a scheduled air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba. Here we see it at East Boston Airport.

Ford Motor Company flew a Model A to Boston and Ford employees assembled the car immediately at East Boston Airport on March 15, 1927.

The Ford Motor Company Assembly plant was built in 1913 in the first stage of decentralization of Ford production from Detroit to sites around the country. The Northeast branch of the Ford Company was initially located in Boston and moved to Memorial Drive in Cambridge in 1914. Although the Ford business prospered in Cambridge, the assembly operations moved to a new plant in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1926.

Question Mark ("?") was a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A transport airplane of the United States Army Air Corps. In 1929, commanded by Major Carl A. Spaatz, it was flown for a flight endurance record as part of an experiment with aerial refueling. Question Mark established new world records in aviation for sustained flight (heavier-than-air), refueled flight, sustained flight (lighter-than-air), and distance between January 1 and January 7, 1929, in a non-stop flight of more than 150 hours near Los Angeles, California.