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  • Francis D. Bowhan and Charlotte Bowhan posed with pilots and passengers participating in the 1925 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour
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    Francis D. Bowhan and Charlotte Bowhan posed with pilots and passengers participating in the 1925 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour on the steps of the Officers' Club at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Lawrence Township, Indiana, October 2, 1925. Front row, left to right: Frank Bogart, unknown, Fred Melchior, Anthony H. G. "Tony" Fokker, Bert Lott, Charlotte Bowhan, Charles S. "Casey" Jones, Earl Rowland, Lawrence B. Richardson, Jake Moellendick, C. B. Allen. Second row: unknown, Walter Herschel Beech, George Hopkins, Harry Augustine (Arthur) Bruno, Thomas Harold "Doc" Kinkade, Earl K. "Rusty" Campbell, Kenneth Judson "Boedy" Boedecker, unknown. Third row: Talbert "Ted" Abrams, Lloyd Yost, Walter J. Addems, unknown, Francis D. "Chief" Bowhan, unknown, Harold Wymer (just behind Boedecker), unknown.

  • Francis D. Bowhan and Charlotte Bowhan posed with pilots and passengers participating in the 1925 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour

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National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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