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Most likely Fokker F.VIIa-3m NC2195/NC3908 c/n 602. Manufactured in the Netherlands as Dutch Fokker c/n 4955. It was shipped to the US on May 15, 1926, where it received the new c/n 602 and registration NC2195, and was used by Continental Motors as an engine test bed and executive transport. Following a crash on July 7, 1927, it was rebuilt at the Atlantic factory using parts from Fokker C-2 NC55 (c/n 1), re-registered NC3908, and sold to Western Air Express on February 2, 1928. It was finally wrecked in a non-fatal accident on September 20, 1929 at Saugus, CA. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kemon01/6475799407/] Photo via Kemon01.

The picture shows a Fokker Trimotor with an advertising text on the side of the fuselage for cigarettes. P. Lorillard introduces Old Gold cigarettes. The firm is well known for its Murad cigarettes and their slogan, "Be nonchalant light a Murad"; Old Golds will gain popularity with the slogan, "Not a cough in a carload"

I wonder if this is US c/n 603 reg as 3080? Looks like 3060 but since that one was no Fokker 3080 is my second best Stig PS: I refrain from making any comment about the ad, but since I am a non-smoker.....

Looking at the largest scan available I see '3080' on the tail which makes it a Fokker F.VIIa-3m (c/n 603). The machines crashed on 18 February 1929.

Although this aircraft is obviously named "The Texan", it is not NC7888, the first aircraft of Standard Airlines to bear that name. NC7888 (c/n 617) was a Fokker F.VIIa with a single Pratt & Whitney Hornet R-1690 engine. It was lost in a crash on March 30, 1929. The shape of this airplane's cockpit and nose section shows that it is the second Standard Airlines aircraft to be named "The Texan", NC9169 (c/n 1038), a U.S.-built Fokker F-10A "Super Trimotor", powered by three Pratt & Whitney Wasp R-1340 engines, and built in July 1929, several months after the loss of NC7888. It only kept its name for a year before being sold to Western Air Express; it then passed to Transcontinental & Western Air and to American Airways before being scrapped in 1932.