1925 Fokker F. VII Tri-Motor Airplane, "Josephine Ford," on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, June 2007

Richard Byrd flew this Fokker F.VII airplane toward the North Pole on May 9, 1926. Though Byrd is generally credited with reaching the pole, controversy remains. When The Henry Ford's Heroes of the Sky exhibit opened in 2003, the Fokker was placed in a setting suggesting the frozen landscape at Spitzbergen, Norway -- where Byrd began and ended his flight.