Making headlines became a Trimotor trademark. On November 27 and 28, 1929, Commander Richard E. Byrd (navigator), chief pilot Bernt Balchen, and two other crewmen, the copilot and the photographer, made the first flight above the geographic South Pole in a Ford Trimotor that Byrd named the "Floyd Bennett". This was one of three aircraft taken on this polar expedition, with the other two being named "The Stars and Stripes" and "The Virginian", replacing the Fokker Trimotors that Byrd previously used.