Today In History:  11 September  [1929]   --  The Fokker F-32 four-engine luxury airliner makes its first US flight

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. Ten examples were built, but they only entered limited commercial service; their high cost and problems with the cooling of the aft engines proved prohibitive. The United States Army Air Corps evaluated the F-32 as the YC-20, but did not purchase it.

PHOTO: An F-32 painted for Universal Air Lines System on September 25, 1929.

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Photo Attribution:  Public Domain  via Wikimedia. Herbert A. French - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.17634