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Trimotor Aircraft - The Bushmaster 2000 was a small passenger aircraft built in the United States in an attempt to revive the Ford Trimotor design. In 1953 work began on testing the old Trimotor, and in 1954 Bill Stout purchased the design rights to the original Trimotor. Due to problems with the Ford Tri-Motor supercharger, the Ford 15-AD-T was named the Bushmaster 2000.

On January 15, 1955, Stout and partner Robert Hyde of the Hyde Aircraft Corporation announced that they would build 1,000 new Bushmasters, but it would be eleven years before the first prototype of the new design flew.

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The Bushmaster 2000 featured significant modernization of the original 1920s design, particularly in the choice of materials and construction techniques. It was modern with more powerful trunks, large cockpit windows, light and strong aluminum alloy skins, a foot-operated hydraulic replacement for the old trimotor hand-operated 'johnny brake', a large stabilizer and a tail fin to reduce pitch. Short tabs and internal rather than external control cables.

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However, with modern engines and propellers, the aircraft's performance did not match contemporary designs with similar power, and sales did not develop. With financial, management and marketing problems, only two examples were built with an unfinished third fuselage.

The first Bushmaster, N7501V, was assembled in 1966 and is owned by Pleasant Aviation LLC at the Mid-America Museum of Flight and located at Mount Pleasant Regional Airport near Mount Pleasant, Texas. The second N750RW was completed on January 18, 1985 in Long Beach, California by Ralph Williams, president of Hydro-Farming. The aircraft was written off in an accident at Fullerton Municipal Airport, California on September 25, 2004.

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