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He became enthralled with planes when he saw a Ford Trimotor at a nearby airport and flew solo in a Piper Cub at 17.

The renovated wing is packed with glorious old standards — the 1929 Ford TriMotor, nicknamed the “Tin Goose”; the sleek gray Boeing 247-D airliner from 1933; and the shiny twin-engine Douglas DC-3, which flew from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Cooley’s book “Trimotor and Trail,” published in 1984, included the most detailed study of the Mann Gulch fire and its aftermath until Norman Maclean’s “Young Men and Fire” was published in 1992, two years after Maclean’s death.

He persuaded his father to let him take a ride on a Ford Trimotor.

Princess Xenia of Greece arrived in a TriMotor in time to hear the rumor that Al Capone had placed a large bet on Dempsey, the consummate pressure fighter.